1 1 6 BOOKS ON FAL CONR Y. 



" Introduccion " by Senor Don Pascual de Gayangos, pp. i.- 

 xxviii. ; followed by the text, pp. 1-167 ; "Glosas del Duque 

 de Alburquerque," pp. 1 71-195 ; Tabla de las Glosas, p. 197 j 

 Indice Alfabetico y Glosario, pp. 199-214; Erratas, p. 215; 

 and a list of the " Sociedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles." With 

 three full-page modem illustrations, in colours, of hawks, namely, 

 a Peregrine and two Goshawks. 



This treatise, by the famous Cavalier who wrote the Chronica 

 de Don Pedro I. was extremely popular in its time ; and a good 

 many MS. copies of it have been found to exist. Don Enrique 

 de Leguina cites no less than a dozen, dating from the fifteenth, 

 sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and preserved 

 in various libraries in Spain. 



It is a much longer composition than that of the Prince Juan 

 Manuel, which preceded it by sixty years, comprising forty-seven 

 chapters instead of twelve ; a separate chapter being devoted to 

 each kind of hawk, and to each ailment (and the remedy for 

 it) to which it was supposed to be subject. One of the most 

 curious is chapter xlvi. : De cbmo se deben enjerir las penolas 

 quebradas, — How to repair broken flight feathers — showing that 

 the operation known to English falconers as "imping" (French 

 enter) is by no means a modern invention. 



It is strange that so important a work as this should not have 

 been earlier printed. It was composed in Portugal during the 

 captivity of the author in the Castle of Oviedes after the battle of 

 Aljubarrota, at which he was taken prisoner. This explains the 

 ending: — "Aqui se acaba [here ends] el Libro de la Caza de 

 las Aves, que fizo Pero Lopez de Ayala en el castillo de Oviedes 

 en Portogal, en el mes de Junio, ano del Senor de Mill et 

 trecientos, et ochenta y seis aiios [1386] era de Cesar de 

 Mccccxxiv anos." 



229. AYALA (Pero Lopez de). Libro de la Caza 

 DE LAS Aves et de sus plumajes, et dolencias, et mele- 

 cinamientos, del Canciller Pero Lopez de Ayala, 

 Siglo XV. [1386.] Madrid. 1879. sm. 8vo. 



Edited by Don Jos^ Gutierrez de la Vega, *' con un discorso 

 y notas," in vol. iii. of the " Biblioteca Venatoria — coleccion 



