Georgii Simonis Winteri, Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus : hoc est, artis equestris accuratissima institutio : opere bipartito, seu duobus libris, absoluta : quorum prior modum explicat, quo dextrè quis equum conscendere, vel decorè descendendo relinquere, adeoq[ue] secundùm omnes palaestrae hujus praeceptiones (s. lectiones) nobili hoc armento excellenter uti, nec non decursionibus ad annulum vel quintanam, hastiludiis, & torneamentis, aliísve generosorum exercitiis equestribus, decenter, atque gloriosè defungi queat, heroinis item, illustribus ac nobilibus foeminis, commodâ & gratiosâ equitatione per agros, vel stadia aliquot, spatiandi rationem commonstrat : posterior autem, quomodo indomitus, intractatus, atque iners equus, ad equitatum, vel venatum, erudiendus sit, ostendit, insuper & de fraenis, quibus eum induere oporteat, peculiariter, copiosè, ac luculenter disserit : quibus omnibus perlongo atq[ue] experientissimo usu, creberrimoq́[ue] autoris exercitio, investigatis & probatis, ex iejusdem inventu rariores, nec unquam visae hactenus, figurae s. imagines accessêre, regulis scilicet ac praeceptis ejusmodi illustrandis utilissimae : in gratiam publicae strenuitatis luci publicae exposita, nec vernaculo tantùm; sed in usum exterorum latino etiam sermone descripta
- Alternate Title
- Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus
- Eques peritus
- Creator
- Winter, Georg Simon, approximately 1634-
- Schuster, Michael R.
- Form
- books
- Date
- 1678
- Language
- German
- Latin
- Subject
- Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800
- Horsemanship
- Horses -- Training -- Early works to 1800
- Horses -- Training
- Collection
- Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 16 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 171 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
- Publisher
- Sumtibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & haeredum Johannis Andreae Endteri
- Notes
- Title leaf in German reads: Georg Simon Winters Wolberittener Cavallier, oder Gründliche Anweisung zu der Reit- und Zaum-Kunst ...
- With half-title: Georgii Simonis Winteri Eques peritus et Hippiater expertus. Oder Wolberittener Cavallier und Wolerfahrner Ross-Artzt. In zweyen Sprachen. The Hippiater expertus was published separately in the same year.
- Added engraved t.p., with German title.
- Originally published in German, Ulm, 1674, with title: Neuer Tractat von der Reith-Kunst. Latin translation by Michael Schuster.
- Signatures: pi⁴ 2):(⁴ A-G⁴ H⁶ I-Y⁴ Z⁶.
- Printed in double columns.
- Woodcuts: initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- Fairman Rogers copy: Ownership inscription had been excised on front free endpaper.
- Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: plates n. 82 and 83 damaged with red staining.
- Latin and German text in parallel columns.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mw28v38
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- LIBRA, Fairman Rogers Collection, Folio SF309 .W55 1678
- Provenance
- Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900 (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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