BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



e muy insigne doctor Pero Nunez de Avendafio : 

 letrado del Illustrissimo senor Don Ynigo Lopez de 

 Mendo9a tercero deste nombre : Duque del Ynfantado. 

 Dirigido a su Illustrissima Sefioria. [al fin] Impreso 

 en la muy noble villa y floretissima Universidad de 

 Alcala de Henares en casa de Juan de Brocar ano 

 1543. 4to. 



In black-letter, title below coat of arms, " Prologo," 3 prelim, 

 leaves, and 40 pp. with side-notes in Latin. 



Another edition, " con nuevas adiciones, y con privilegio, en 

 Madrid en casa de Pedro Madrigal, 1593," folio. Both editions 

 are very rare. 



This is a general treatise on the laws of Spain relating to 

 hunting and hawking in the sixteenth century. From it we learn 

 (amongst other things) that the clergy, secular and regular, were 

 forbidden to hunt or hawk, or to keep dogs or falcons, as causing 

 too much distraction from their religious duties : — " Los religiosos 

 no pueden yr a ca^a, ni pueden tener perros : ni aves para 

 cagar," etc., fol. xxvii. " Los clerigos sacerdotes no pueden usar 

 de caga clamorosa dado se mucho a tal exercicio," etc., fol. 

 xxvii. verso. It would seem, however, that they were not pro- 

 hibited from writing on field sports ; see the treatise by Alfonso 

 Tostado de Madrigal, Bishop of Avila, published in 161 1 

 (No. 243). 



Concluding with an Epistola Commendatoria (fol. xxxviii.- 

 xxxix.), the present work ends on the last folio (unpaged) : 

 " Impso en la muy noble villa y floretissima Universidad de 

 Alcala de Henares en casa de Juan de Brocar, a xviii. dias 

 del mes de Deziebre del ano 1543." 



236. VALLES (Mossen Johan). Libro de Ace- 



TRERfA. Madrid. 1556. folio. 



Cited by Senor Don Pascual de Gayangos (l.c^ as being 

 preserved in the original MS. in the Biblioteca Na9ional, Madrid. 

 He describes it as being divided into five books, or treatises, 

 of which the first four relate entirely to hawking with the Gos- 

 hawk and Sparrow-hawk {azor y gavilan), and the last to hunting. 



