FRENCH. 67 



drawn is that this book is the outcome of the king's teaching. 

 M. Martin Dairvault, however, in his preliminary " Notice " to 

 this the earliest French version in print, deprives us of the 

 romance by stating that no king of the name of Dancus ever 

 existed in Armenia, nor did any King Galatien ever reign in 

 Egypt, Roger of Hungary being equally ^^ introuvable dans 

 rhistoire.'" Is this work, then, the composition of Albertus 

 Magnus, who, to give it an air of greater reality, introduced 

 the names of imaginary personages? The MS. printed by 

 M. Dairvault was discovered by him in the Bibliothfeque 

 Nationale, Paris (No. 12581, du Fonds Frangais), and is fully 

 described in his " Notice " above mentioned. 



The author's name is sometimes written Danchus, and 

 Daulcus or Dalcus, as by LesculHer in his MS. " Livre des 

 Oyseaulx de proye tant en Vart d'esperverie aultrusserie que 

 faulconnerie." This MS., in folio on vellum (No. 275, Bibl. 

 de I'Arsenal), which is referable to the reign of Frangois I. or 

 Henri II., ends thus : " Cy fine le livre de I'art de esperverie 

 .... faict et traduict du contenu en plusieurs vieulx livres 

 .... par Charles Lescullier, natif de Moulins en Bourbonnais 

 dem[eurant] a Paris." 



140. LE LIVRE DU FAULCON [sans lieu ni 

 date. Paris, Anthoine Verard. 1486-92 ?] 



A work in prose and verse of extreme rarity, and known to 

 the present writer only through the black-letter facsimile reprint 

 of 181 7, dedicated and presented by Robert Lang to the mem- 

 bers of the Roxburghe Club. The author is unknown. From 

 what is stated by Brunet, it would seem that there were at least 

 four editions, all printed in Paris, which are thus characterized : — 



1. Sans lieu ni date, petit in 4° gothique de 19 ff sign^s A- 

 E iii. Ouvrage en vers et en prose. La pr^sente edition, qui 

 parait avoir etd imprime pour Anthoine Verard [1486-92], est 

 fort rare, et le seul exemplaire qu'on en connaisse a ^t^ vendu 

 ;^5 I2S. 6d. (Lang) et ;j^i4 (Heber). M. Lang en a fait faire 

 una r^impression pet. in 4° tirde "k petit nombre pour les 

 niembres du Roxburghe Club. Cette r^impression a €\.€ vendu 

 £21%. (Sykes), £2 los. (Lang). 



2. " Le Livre du Faulcon." Imprime k Paris par le petit 

 Laurens en la rue Saint Jacquez pres Saint Yvez. Petit in 4°, 



