46 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



88. HICFELT (Eberhard). Aucupatorium Hero- 

 DiORUM. Eine Deutsche Abhandlung liber die Beizjagd 

 aus der ersten halfte des 15 Jahrhundertes. Nach der 

 einzigen erhaltenen Handschrift dem Cod. MS. Nr. 2457 

 der K. K. Hotbibliothek zu Wien zum erstenmale im 

 Urtexte herausgegeben, eingeleitet, und commentiert 

 von Ernst Ritter von Dombrowski. MIteinem photo- 

 zinkographischen und handcolorierten Facsimile der 

 Handschrift, etc. Wien. 1886. 4to. [1430-1450.] 



This extremely interesting treatise, written between 1430 and 

 1450, is printed in Black letter for the first time from a MS. 

 in the Royal Library at Vienna. It contains a facsimile in 

 colours (the MS. being illuminated) of the first page, which 

 commences : — '• Incipit aucupatorium herodioruin ex antiquorum 

 philosophorum dictis per magistrum Eberhardum Hicfelt collect um 

 et Iranslatuin" 



It is apparently founded on the earlier treatises of Symmachus 

 and Theodosius, A. de Eglis, Ladislaus of Hungary, and 

 Crescentius (see Latin authors), and deals first with the nature 

 and habits of Falcons {^Herodioruin sive Falkonuni) ; secondly, 

 with taming and training them {de domatiotie et doctritia) ; and 

 thirdly, with the cure of their diseases (de egritudinibus earn/idem 

 curis). The editor, Baron von Dombrowski, in an excellent 

 Introduction notices some of the older works from which the 

 author derived information, and prints in parallel columns a 

 passage from Hicfelt and from Crescentius. 



Only 220 numbered copies of this have been printed, of which 

 that in the writer's possession is No. 61. 



89. KAISER MAXIMILIAN. Handschrift uber 



DIE Falknerey (1493-15 1 9) auf der K.K. Hofbibho- 



thek zu Wien. 



Printed, from a MS. of the fifteenth century in the Imperial 

 Library at Vienna, by Hammer Purgstall in his " Falknerklee " 

 (No. 113), 8vo, pp. 94-96. Wien. 1840. It is an Ordinance of 

 the Emperor, addressed to a Grand Duke of Austria, relative 

 to the state of falconry in that country. From this it appears 



