Latin.

298. CRESCENTIIS (Petrus de). RURALIUM COMMODORUM LIBRI XII. [Begin.] Petri de Crescentiis civis Bononiensis epistola in librum commodorum ruralium. [1. 29.] [1. 29.] Incipit liber ruralium commodorum a Petro de Crescentiis compilatus etc. [End.] Petri de Crescentiis civis Bonoñ. ruralium commodorum libri duodecim finiunt feliciter. Johannem Schuszler civem Augustensem. Augsburg. 1471. folio.

Per

209 leaves, without title page, pagination, register, or catchwords; with 35 lines to a full page. This is the first edition that has a date. Composed in 1307, at the desire of Charles II., King of Sicily, and translated into French in 1373, at the request of Charles V. of France, this work, in its plan, resembles the subsequently printed Maison Rustique of Estienne and Liebault (No. 148), which was translated into English by Surflet (No. 16). It deals with agriculture and field sports, the ninth book containing a chapter on Falconry.

It passed through several editions in the original Latin—e.g., at Louvain, per Johannem de Westphalia, 1473, 1474, and 1475; Argentine, 1486; Antwerp, 1500; Basle, 1538 and 1548; all in folio-and has been translated into German (No. 96), French (No. 141), and Italian (No. 264).

299. BEAUVAIS (Vincent de). VINCENTII BELLOVACENSIS SPECULUM NATURALE. Strasburg. 1473. folio.

Other editions, Augsburg, 1474; Strasburg, 1476; and Nuremberg, 1486 (fide Schlegel).

This author, who was a friar of the Order of Preachers and a contemporary of Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, has, in his Speculum Naturale, reproduced almost, textually, the apocry

L

phal letter on Falconry said to have been addressed by Symmachus and Theodotio to a certain Ptolemy, King of Egypt. The original text, which is considered by Baron de Noirmont (No. 206) to have been really composed by some Greek or Italian author anterior to the thirteenth century (op. cit. iii. p. 89), has been lost, and we have only the translation in Catalan (No. 223), already noticed. For the rest, his remarks are based on the writings of Aristotle, Pliny, and Albertus Magnus

300. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. DE FALCONIBUS ASTURIBUS ET ACCIPITRIBUS. In opere "De Animalibus." Roma, Simon Nicholas de Lucas. 1478. folio.

The first edition of this celebrated treatise, which was composed at Cologne between 1262 and 1280, by Albert de Bollstädt (surnamed by his contemporaries, the Great), Bishop of Ratisbon. A second edition was printed at Mantua, in 1479, and a later edition at Lyons in 1651, all in folio. It will be found in lib. xxiii. at the end of tom. vi. of his general work, De Animalibus. and is also printed with the work of the Emperor Frederick II., De Arte Venandi cum avibus (No. 308), which see.

A German translation, by Walther Kyff, was published in 1545, at Frankfort-am-Main, and an earlier French translation of a portion is printed by M. Henri Dairvault in his edition of the Livre du Roi Dancus (No. 139).

It is a crude compilation from Symmachus (No. 223), the Emperor Frederick's work (No. 308), and other sources, and shows the author to have been but imperfectly acquainted with the subject.

301. AQUAVIVA (Belisaire, Duc de Nardo). BELISARII AQUAVIVI ARAGONII NERITINORUM DUCIS ALIQUOT AUREI LIBELLI de Principum liberis educandis, de Venatione, DE AUCUPIO, de Re Militari, de singulari certamine. Basileæ, apud Petrum Pernam.

1518. sm. 8vo.

EDITIO ALTERA.

DE VENATIONE ET AUCUPIO PER

ACCIPITRES. Impressum Neapoli in bibliotheca Joann. Pasquet de Salo. 1519. sm. folio.

Not seen; cited by Lastri, Bibliotheca Georgica

EDITIO ALTERA. BELISARII AQUAVIVI ARAGONII NERITINORUM DUCIS ALIQUOT AUREOLI VERE LIBELli, de Principum liberis educandis, de Venatione, de Aucupio, de re Militari, de singulari certamine. His additum est elegans poematium Michaelis Marulli de Principum institutione, nunquam hactenus editum. [Vignette.] Basilea, ex officina Petri Pernæ. 1578.

8vo.

7 prelim. leaves, pp. 1-224, and Index, pp. 89-114. "Belisarii Neritinorum Ducis Libellus de Aucupio" contains the following sections:-De accipitribus qui vulgo Hierifalcones nominantur; De accipitribus qui Sacri appellantur deq milvorum naturæ ; De accipitribus Peregrinis; De medianis; De accipitribus generosis qui vulgo Gentiles nuncupantur; De ignobilibus quos vulgo Villanos vocant accipitribus; De quibusdam accipitrum morbis sanandis; Epilogus.

According to Huzard (No. 191), "Notes bibliographiques concernant les œuvres du Duc de Nardo," the addition here made forms part, and is to be found at the end, of the work of Leunclavius, printed at Basle in 1578.

302. GYRALDUS(L. G.). LILII GREGORII GYRALDI DIALOGISMUS DE VENATIONE ACCIPITRUM Ceterarumque Avium rapacium v in ejusdem Dialogismis. Venetiis. 1553. I 2mo.

Another edition, fide Kreysig, in folio, Lugduni Batavorum, 1696. Not in the British Museum, and not seen.

303. GESNER (Conrad).

HISTORIA ANIMALIUM.

LIB. III. DE AVIUM NATURA. Tiguri. 1554. 5 vols. folio.

Other editions, Frankfort 1585, 1586, 1603, 1617, 1620.

A German translation by Rud. Heusslein was printed at Zürich in 1581, and at Frankfort in 1600 and 1609, all in folio. An English translation by Topsell, with the title "A Historie of Foure-footed Beastes," &c., was published in 1658, folio, of which another edition appeared in 1607.

Gesner has been surnamed the German Pliny, and it was to him that Dr. Caius addressed his celebrated Libellus de Canibus Britannicis. For much of the information in his treatise de Avibus regarding the training of hawks, Gesner was apparently indebted to the now very rare work of Eberhard Tapp (No. 93), and to a MS. of Demetrius of Constantinople (No. 327).

304. TARDIVUS (Guillelmus). DE ARTE ACCIPITRUM una cum Frederici II. Imperatoris de arte Venandi cum avibus, et Manfredi regis additionibus. Geneva. 1560. 8vo.

Other editions, Basle, 1578, 8vo, and Augsburg, 1596, 8vo (fide Lallemant). See note to the "Livre de l'art de Faulconnerie par Guillaume Tardif," anteà, p. 72.

305. HERESBACH (Conrad). REI RUSTICE LIBRI QUATUOR universam rusticam disciplinam complectens etc. Item De Venatione, Aucupio, atque Piscatione Compendium, in usum etc. Auctore D. D. Conrado Heresbachio

[Vignette.] Coloniæ apud Joannem Birckmannum. Anno 1570. sm. 8vo.

Editio altera, Spiræ Nemetum, 1594, 8vo. The four books of Husbandry occupy 330 leaves. Then follows, to 346 verso, a treatise on the laws relating to Agriculture. To this succeeds "Thereutices; hoc est de Venatione, Aucupio, atque Piscatione Compendium;" wherein (at p. 375), in the section De Aucupio, we find observations on Hawking, with the side-notes, Accipi

trarium aucupium, Aucupii modi, Accipitrum genera, Pretium accipitrum, and Domandi ratio. The author also describes the "seeling" of hawks to tame them, and their periodical moulting, adding remarks on taking partridges and quails.

The "Four Books of Husbandry" were translated, under this name, by "Barnaby Googe, Esquire," at London, and printed by Richard Watkins, 1577, 4to. But he omitted the treatise de Legibus, and the Compendium de Venatione, Aucupio, &c.

306. THUANUS (J. A.). HIERACOSOPHION: SIVE DE VENATIONE PER ACCIPITRES. Libri duo. Burdegalæ. 1582. 8vo.

The first, though not the best, edition of this esteemed poem by Jacques Auguste de Thou; the quarto of 1735, in which the Italian translation is given in parallel columns with the Latin original, being generally preferred.

In the second edition another "book" was added with the following title :—

Libri

HIERACOSOPHION SIVE DE RE ACCIPITRARIA. tres. [Vignette.] Lutetiæ apud Mamertum Patissonium Typographum Regium: in officina Rob. Stephani. 1584. sm. 4to.

Title 1, preliminary leaf (pp. 1–95), ending "Hieracosophion Liber tertius et ultimus explicit." On p. 95 verso, an important note on the various kinds of hawks used for Falconry, with the Latin and French names for them. See note to No. 284. i.-vi.) with Epistola, in

Following this note, six leaves (Nos.

verse, ad Philippium Huraltum Franciæ Cancellarium.

HIERACOSOPHION : SIVE DE RE ACCIPITRARIA. Libri III. [Vignette.] Lutetiæ apud Mamertum Patissonium Typographum Regium: in officina Roberti Stephani. 1587. sm. 8vo.

A third edition (pp. 1–109), including title. On p. 107 the note on Hawks, with their Latin and French names, above referred to.