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Xatin. 



298. CRESCENTIIS (Petrus de). Ruralium 

 COMMODORUM LiBRi XII. [Begin.] Petri de Cres- 

 centiis civis Bononiensis epistola in librum commo- 

 doriim ruralium. [1. 29.] Incipit liber ruralium 

 commodorum a Petro de Crescentiis compilatus etc. 

 [End.] Petri de Crescentiis civis Bonon. ruralium 

 commodorum libri duodecim finiunt feliciter. Per 

 Johannem Schuszler civem Augustensem. Augsburg. 

 1 47 1 . folio. 



209 leaves, without title page, pagination, register, or catch- 

 words ; with 35 lines to a full page. This is the first edition 

 that has a date. Composed in 1307, at the desire of Charles II., 

 King of Sicily, and translated into French in 1373, at the 

 request of Charles V. of France, this work, in its plan, re- 

 sembles the subsequently printed Maisoji Rustique of Estienne 

 and Liebault (No. 148), which was translated into English by 

 Surflet (No. 16). It deals with agriculture and field sports, 

 the ninth book containing a chapter on Falconry. 



It passed through several editions in the original Latin — e.g.^ 

 at Louvain, per Johannem de Westphalia, 1473, 1474? and 1475 '> 

 Argentine, i486 \ Antwerp, 1500 ; Basle, 1538 and 1548 ; all in 

 folio — and has been translated into German (No. 96), French 

 (No. 141), and Italian (No. 264). 



299. BEAUVAIS (Vincent de). Vincentii Bel- 

 LovACENSis Speculum Naturale. Strasburg. 1473. 

 folio. 



Other editions, Augsburg, 1474 ; Strasburg, 1476 ; and 

 Nuremberg, i486 i^fide Schlegel). 



This author, who was a friar of the Order of Preachers and a 

 contemporary of Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, has, in 

 his Speculum Naturale, reproduced almost, textually, the apocry- 



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