ITALIAN. 141 



domarli & cognoscerli : & quali son boni : & del modo de 

 farli perfect! : &c. Item in simel modo tratta de la natura di 

 rilevar : medicar : govemar : & matenir Spalivieri Astori Falconi 

 & simili, &c." This first title (which is not in black-letter) is 

 printed in six and a half lines at the top of the page (fol. i), 

 below which is a three-quarter page cut of a blacksmith's forge 

 wherein a horse is being shod. On the last page (32 verso) are 

 four woodcuts of bits for horses. The first treatise occupies 

 fols. 2-28; the second, 28 verso-yi. It is undated, and the 

 author's name does not appear. It is presumably the work 

 referred to by Capt. Huth in his " Bibliography of the Horse," 

 1887 (p. 5), as having been printed at Milan in 1517. 



Can this be the " traite special en Italien " mentioned by 

 M. Charavay on p. 3 of his *' Etude sur la Chasse ^ I'Oiseau 

 au Moyen-age" (No. 210), "fait au xvsibcle et irv^S^-vX^ Medecini 

 di Cavalli e Falconi, lequel traits faisait partie de la bibliothbque 

 de Diane de Poitiers " (Bibl. Nat. it. 939) ? He does not state 

 whether the treatise to which he refers was ever printed, but 

 the treatise in my possession, of which I have seen no other 

 copy, answers his description. It is entirely occupied with an 

 enumeration of remedies for diseases in horses and hawks. 

 Who the author was remains to be discovered ; perhaps an early 

 King of Sicily (he is described in the title as " Re," and the 

 composition is evidently of some antiquity) j perhaps he had 

 no more certain existence than " le Roi Modus " or " le Roi 

 Dancus." 



267. CARCANO (Francesco Sforzino da). Tre 



LiBRi DEGLi UccELLi DA Rapina di M. Franccsco 



Sforzino da Carcano, nobile Vicentino, ne quali si 



contiene la vera cognitione dell' Arte de Struccleri, & il 



modo di conoscere, ammaestrare, reggere, & medicare 



tutti gli Augelli Rapaci. Con un trattato de Cani del 



medesimo. Con privilegio. [Woodcut.] In Vinegia 



appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. 1547. sm. 8vo. 



Another edition with similar title ; nine prelim, leaves, pp. i- 

 250, and separately printed woodcut on last leaf. In Vinegia, 

 appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. 1568. sm. 8vo. 



