LATIN. 167 



in question had been taken by the peasants from the nests of 

 eagles in the neighbourhood, whither it had been carried to feed 

 their young. 



For fuller details of the life of Thuanus the reader may be 

 referred to Buckley's edition of his " History " (vol. vii.). He 

 died in Paris in 16 17, and it is of interest to note that one of his 

 executors was Nicholas Rigault, who in 1612 (as above noticed) 

 had printed his poem in tlie Rei Accipitraria Scriptores (No. 

 3x4), the other executor being P. du Puy. "Thuanus," says 

 Thomas Hearne, " though he writ Latin admirably well, yet he 

 was not ready nor clear in speaking it. So in a letter from a 

 great man to Sir Robt. Cotton ; MS." — " Reliquicz Hearniana" 

 vol. i. p. 217. 



307. MEDICES (Sebastianus). Tractatus de 

 Venatione, PiscATiONE, ET Aucupio. Cologne. 1588. 

 8vo. 



Other editions, Helmstadt 1592, Cologne 1598, Marburg 

 1698, all in octavo. This treatise is also printed in vol. xvii. of 

 the collection entitled Tractatus Tractatuum, Venetise, 1584. 

 There is likewise a quarto edition thus entitled : — 



Tractatus Sebastiani Medicis, Florentini, de 



Venatione, Piscatione, et Aucupio. Spirse Neme- 



tum, sumptibus Hellse Kembach, Bibliopolae Spirensis. 



Anno 1605. 4^0- 



Printed also with Bruckmann (Noj 312) and Mor (No. 310) 

 in Tractus III Clarissimoruiti Virorum (pp. 47-109), and by 

 Fritsch in his Corpus Juris Venatorio- Forestalls ^lA^siiQ, 1702, 

 foUo. See Bruckmann (No. 312). 



308. FREDERICUS II. (Imperator). Reliqua 

 librorum Frederici II. Imperatoris De Arte Ve- 

 nandi cum Avibus cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. 

 Ex membranis vetustis nunc primum edita. Albertus 

 Magnus de Falconibus Asturibus et Accipitribus. 



