SPANISH, 135 



Chancellor Pero Lopez de Ayala (No. 228), which date back 

 to 1325 and 1386 respectively, have only been printed and pub- 

 lished within the last ten years. A great number of Spanish 

 works on hawking still remain in MS. I have notes of more 

 than forty such MSS. in various libraries, public and private. 



Amongst these may be specially noticed a Spanish translation 

 of the fifteenth century of the work of Brunetto Latini (No. 263) ; 

 not from the first printed Italian version of Bono Giamboni but 

 from the original French (see p. 137). Two copies of this are 

 known to exist. The authors of La Caza (No. 260) give the title 

 as follows : " Paredes {Alfonso de) — aqui comienga el libro del 

 Thesoro que fabla de todas las noblezas de las cosas," and after 

 mentioning some of the most interesting chapters (see p. 137) 

 conclude with the following remark : " Este libro lo trasladc 

 Maestre Brunete de Latyn en rromase Frances, y Don Sancho 

 nieto de Fernando el Santo, lo mando trasladar de Frances 

 en lenguaje Castellano, al maestro Alfonso de Paredes, fissico 

 del infante don Fernando su fijo, y a Pascual Gomez, escrivano 

 del Rey." 



It is possible that the Spanish Literature of Falconry may yet 

 receive additions, in the shape of treatises by the late Don 

 Antonio Boria y Pascual, who died in 1876, leaving voluminous 

 MSS. for a work on the history and bibliography of Hunting and 

 Hawking, and by Senor Don Enrique de Leguina, whose quarto 

 MS. of 270 pages, '■^ adoniado con Jtiuchas acuarelas" was 

 anxiously expected by Don Gutierrez de la Vega when he pub- 

 lished, in 1879, his editions of the works by the Prince and the 

 Chancellor above mentioned. 



The last-named writer has thus described his own MS. : — 

 " La Cetreria — Apuntes coordinados por Enrique de Leguina 

 1882. MS. 4to. Adornado con cinco acnarelas, letras de 

 adomo etc." He adds in a note : — " El objeto de este trabajo 

 es dar a conocer algunos datos sobre la historia de la Cetreria, 

 aves que se destinaban a este ejercicio, metodo de adiestrarlas 

 etc. : pero es solo una reunion de noticias, min no preparadas 

 para la iviprenta. Se halla dividida en nueve capitulos, a saber 

 (i) de la Caza en general; (2) La Cetreria ; (3) Division de la 

 Halconeria; (4) el Halcon; (5) su ensenanza; (6) sus enferme- 

 dades ; (7) obras consultadas ; (8) Cazadores y Halcones Es- 

 panoles cclebres ; (9) Glosario." 



This cannot fail to prove a most interesting work to falconers, 

 and it is to be hoped that it may be speedily published. 



