i62 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



phal letter on Falconry said to have been addressed by Sym- 

 machus and Theodotio to a certain Ptolemy, King of Egypt. 

 The original text, which is considered by Baron de Noirmont 

 (No. 206) to have been really composed by some Greek or 

 Italian author anterior to the thirteenth century (op. cit. iii. 

 p. 89), has been lost, and we have only the translation in 

 Catalan (No. 223), already noticed. For the rest, his remarks 

 are based on the writings of Aristotle, Pliny, and Albertus 

 Magnus 



300. ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De Falconibus 

 AsTURiBUS ET AcciPiTRiBUS. In opere " De Ani- 

 malibiis." Roma, Simon Nicholas de Lucas. 1478. 

 folio. 



The first edition of this celebrated treatise, which was composed 

 at Cologne between 1262 and 1280, by Albert de BoUstadt 

 (surnamed by his contemporaries, the Great), Bishop of Ratisbon. 

 A second edition was printed at Mantua, in 1479, ^i^d a later 

 edition at Lyons in 1651, all in folio. It will be found in lib. 

 xxiii. at the end of tom. vi. of his general work, De Aniinalibus. 

 and is also printed with the work of the Emperor Frederick IL, 

 De Arte Venandi cunt avibus (No. 308), which see. 



A German translation, by Walther Kyff, was pubUshed in 

 1545, at Frankfort-am-Main, and an earlier French translation of 

 a portion is printed by M. Hejiri Dairvault in his edition of the 

 Livre du Roi Dancus (No. 139). 



It is a crude compilation from Symmachus (No. 223), the 

 Emperor Frederick's work (No. 308), and other sources, and 

 shows the author to have been but imperfectly acquainted with 

 the subject. 



301. AQUA VIVA (Belisaire, Due de Nardo). 



Belisarii Aquavivi Aragonii Neritinorum Ducis 

 Aliquot aurei libelli de Principum liberis educan- 

 dis, de Venatione, de Aucupio, de Re Militari, de 

 singulari certamine. Basileae, apud Petrum Pernam. 

 1 5 1 8. sm. 8vo. 



