ITALIAN, 137 



Jtalian. 



263. LATINI (Brunette). Il Tesoro, nel qual se 

 tratta de tutte le cose che a mortali se appartengono vol- 

 garizzato da Bono Giamboni. Trevisa. 1474. folio. 



This remarkable encyclopaedia, which contains several chapters 

 on Falconry (book i. part v.), was composed in Paris at the end 

 of the thirteenth century by the celebrated Florentine gram- 

 marian, Brunette Latini,and was originally written in French — "Z? 

 Livres dou Tresor redige en langue Franr^aise ou Romans selonc h 

 parler de France pour ce que la parleure est plus delitable et plus 

 commune a tous langages." M. H. Martin Dairvault, in the 

 Introduction to his edition of the Livre du Rot Dancus (No. 139) 

 has noticed a MS. fragment of the Tresor in the Bibl. Nat. 

 Paris, No. 12581, du Fonds frangois, which is dated 1284. It 

 was translated into Italian by Bono Giamboni, and first published 

 in 1474. Other editions — Vinezia, 1528 and 1533. 



The chapters on Falconry were reprinted for private circu- 

 lation, in 1 85 1, by Count Mortara, in his Scritture Antiche 

 Toscana di Falcontria (No. 293), but it was not until 1863 that 

 the whole of the original French text was for the first time 

 printed, by M. Chabaille, with the following title : — 



Li Livres dou Tresor par Brunetto Latini. 



Public pour la premiere fois d'apres les MSS. de la 



Bibliotheque Imperiale, Bibliotheque de 1' Arsenal, etc., 



par P. Chabaille. Collection de Documents inedits 



sur I'histoire de France ; publics par les soins du 



Ministre de 1' Instruction publique (2"" seric, Lettres et 



Sciences). Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. 1863. 4to. 



In this edition, now the most easily referred to, although 



apparently overlooked by Baron de Noirmont (No. 206, iil 



p. 90, note), the pages relating to Falconry are as follow : — Book i. 



part v., " De la nature des Animaus ; " p. 197, ch. 148, de toutes 



manieres de Ostours ; p. 201, ch. 149, de tous Espreviers ; p. 202, 



ch. 150, de tous Faucons ; p. 204, ch. 151, de tous Emerillons. 



