no BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



See also Galvani, Osservazioni sulla Poesia de Trovate, 8vo, 

 Modena, 1829, and an article by M. G Azais in vol. viii. of 

 Xht Journal des Chasseurs. 



Catalan* 



223. SYMMACHUS (Aquila) et THEODOTIO 



Epistola Aquilse Symmachi et Theodotionis ad 

 Ptolemaeum regem -^gypti De Re Accipitraria, 

 Catalanica lingua. Lutetiae. 161 2. 4to. 



This apocryphal letter, said to have been addressed to a certain 

 Ptolemy King of Egypt by Aquila Symraachus and Theodotio, 

 is cited by Albertus Magnus in his treatise de Falconibus, 1478. 

 The original Latin MS. has been lost, and the treatise is now 

 only known through the version in lingua Catalanica printed 

 by Rigault in his Rei Accipitraria. Scriptores pp. 183-200, 

 and the Excerpta ex libra incerti auctoris de naturd rerum, 

 printed in the same collection (pp. 201-2 11). It has been 

 characterised by Baron de Noirmont {op. cit.) as "/(? plus 

 ancien traits de fauconnerie en langue vulgaire," and treats of 

 the different kinds of hawks used by falconers, the diseases 

 to which they are subject, and the remedies recommended for 

 them. 



It commences : — " Assi comensa lo libre dell nudrimeiit he 



de la cura dels ocels los quals sepertaye ha cassa Gran 



Emperador & Senyor tu as manat "k nos servidors teus fer 

 obra brev & profitable dels ozels del libre dels antics trans- 

 latant ab diligencia. Et nos obediens k la tua volentat ajustatz 

 ensems atorgan brevm6t la tua demanda. E volen la tua 

 altea saber que diverses son les maneres dels ocels d'cassa, & 

 diverses son lurs malauties he moltes, per asso lurs son neces- 

 saries les medecines." 



Under the heading Del nudriment dell Sperver — i.e., the 

 Sparrow-hawk — is the following curious observation (p. 186), 

 which I have not found noticed by any other writer on 



