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BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



comment on doit deviser de toutes manieres de chasses, 

 etc. Imprime a Chambery par Anthoine Neyret I'an 

 de grdce mil quatre cens ottante et six le xxv^ jour de 

 octobre [i486]. 4to. 



The earliest printed book in French which treats of Hunting 

 and Hawking except the translation of the Latin work of Peter 

 Crescentius, which was printed in the same year. The older 

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Latin in 1284, was not printed until 1883 (No, 139). The 

 name of the author of Le Livre du Roi Modus is unknown, 

 although he offers a clue to it in a melange of the letters of his 

 name and that of the transcriber grouped in a rosace. These 

 letters are F. D. R. H. I. E. N. R. E. I. E. S. E. R. E. (in outer 

 circle), and H. D. O. S. E. D. M. I. S. N. E. R. (in inner circle), 

 from which the authorship has been attributed (by M. Joseph 



