72 ' BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



editions, Paris, Anthoine Verard, 1506 ; Paris, Jehan Trepperel, 

 1506 ; Lyon, Pierre de Saincte Lucie diet Le Prince, sans date 

 [1530-1555]; Paris, Philippe le Noir, sans date, printed with 

 "La Fauconnerie" de Jean de Franchibres, &c., 1567, 1585, 

 1602, 1607, 1613, 1614, 1618, 1621, 1624, 1627, 1628. 



Translated into Latin and printed at Geneva and Venice, 1560, 

 and at Basle, 1578, with the treatise of the Emperor 

 Frederick IL See Latin authors. 



The latest edition in French is that by M. Jullien, published 

 in the " Cabinet de Venerie," with the following title : — 



Le Livre de l'Art de Faulconnerie et des 

 CHiENS DE Chasse. Par Guillaume Tardif. Reimprim^ 

 sur redition de 1492 avec une Notice et des Notes 

 par Ernest Jullien [Juge au Tribunal Civil de Reims ; 

 auteur de "La Chasse, son histoire et sa legis- 

 lation," 1868]. Paris, Jouaust. 1882. 2 vols. sm. 

 8vo. 



Guillaume Tardif du Puy en Vellay was a Professor at the 

 College de Navarre, and reader to Charles VIIL of France, 

 who was a great falconer (1483-1498). His work, to which 

 our English Turbervile (No. 14) was indebted, is chiefly a 

 translation from the Latin text (since lost) of " Le Roi Dancus " 

 (No. 139), with additions from the MSS. of Artelouche de 

 Alagona and De Franchieres, from the unpublished MSS. of 

 Moamus, Guillinus, and Guicennas, and from the Latin work 

 of the Emperor Frederick IL, written about 1245. Le Livre 

 de Tardif is divided into two parts ; the first relating to Hawks, 

 the second to Hounds. The first is again divided into two 

 parts, which treat (i) of the different kinds of hawks used by 

 falconers and the mode of training them ; (2) of the recipes 

 for the cure of their diseases. 



As to the writers Moanms, Guillinus, and Guicennas, from 

 whom Tardif states that he derived information, nothing with 

 certainty is known of them, their MSS. being presumably lost. 

 Arcussia, who likewise quotes them (No. 153), regards the two 

 last-named writers as Egyptians, though MM. Lalldmant Freres 

 (No. 175) make Guicennas an Arab. 



