i6S BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Augustse Vindelicorum ad insigne Pinus apud Johan- 

 nem Prsetorium. 1596. sm. 8vo. 



7 preliminary leaves, including a folding plate of the Emperor 

 seated on a throne with two attendants on their knees with hawks 

 (from an Italian miniature of the thirteenth century here repro- 

 duced — see plate). Liber primus, pp. 1-138; Liber secundus, 

 pp. 139-358. Albertus Magnus de Falconibus, pp. 359-414. 

 The Emperor's treatise ends on p. 358, the remainder of the 

 volume (pp. 359-414) being occupied with the work of Albertus. 

 It was composed about the year 1247, towards the end of his 

 reign. Evidence of the royal authorship is to be found in the 

 mention of his name in the Prologue, reference to his voyage 

 to the East, transmission of the MS. to his son Prince Manfred 

 when seventeen or eighteen years of age, i.e., in 1248-49, and the 

 testimony of Albertus Magnus. The Emperor, who died in 1250, 

 had the work in preparation for thirty years, but the affairs of 

 State long prevented him from completing it. 



Prince Manfred arranged some of the chapters in better 

 order, made certain additions which are distinguished by his 

 name, and, with the aid of notes found amongst his royal 

 father's papers, filled up a gap which existed in the original MS. 

 But he was not the only possessor of the treatise. There were 

 copies in which there were no traces of his additions : in fact, the 

 only two copies of the MS. now known to exist are without 

 these additions, although they were to be found in the copy 

 which, in the sixteenth century, came to the hands of Joachim 

 Camerarius, the learned doctor of Nuremberg, and from which 

 this edition was printed. See Pichon (No. 201). 



The Emperor's treatise was printed with the Latin version of 

 the Fauconnerie de Guillaunie Tardif i^o. 304) at Geneva, 1560, 

 and at Basle, 1578, both very scarce editions, and in 1756 aGer- 

 man translation by Pacius (No. loi) was printed at Ansbach. 

 In 1788 Prof. P. G. Schneider, of Leipzig, edited the work 

 in 2 vols, quarto, with the following title : — 



ReLIQUA LiBRORUM FrEDERICI II. iMrERATORIS DE 



ARTE Venandi CUM AviBus I Cum Manfrcdi Regis 

 additionibus : ex membranaceo codice Camerarii pri- 



