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The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.)

Title: The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.) / translated from the German by Gerhard F. Probst.
Author: Kikkuli, active approximately 1350 B.C.
Publication: Lexington, Ky. : Keeneland Association Library, c1977.

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Description

14 folded sheets ([3], xl, 4 p., [13] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill.; 26 x 12 cm.

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Note

"125 numbered copies"--T.p. verso.
Translation of the Hittite work known from its principal author's name as the Kikkuli text, from the German version of Johannes A.H. Potratz, published in Das Pferd in der Frühzeit (1938).
"Illustrated by Carolyn Whitesel and printed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky, by Sallie Ruff; designed by Carolyn Hammer"--T.p. verso.
Comprises folded sheet with title page information and dedication ([3] p. at beginning); translation (p. i-xl), in folded sheets numbered I-X; 2 folded sheets, each containing a triple-page ill.; and folded sheet captioned "Notes" (p. 1-4). Each folder but the first has a leaf of plates at beginning.
Printed in red and black.
Issued in black cloth portfolio with white paper spine label and mounted ill. on front cover; unattached black cord tie with wooden bead.

Call Number

*KP (King Library) 06-221

LCCN

80493804

OCLC

6787412

Author

Kikkuli, active approximately 1350 B.C.

Title

The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.) / translated from the German by Gerhard F. Probst.

Imprint

Lexington, Ky. : Keeneland Association Library, c1977.

Local Note

NYPL copy is no. 115.

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Probst, Gerhard F.

Potratz, Johannes A. H., 1906-

Whitesel, Carolyn. Illustrator

Ruff, Sallie. Printer

Hammer, Carolyn Reading. Book designer

Keeneland Library (Lexington, Ky.)

King Library Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (King Library) 06-221