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him in connection with Falconry will be found in the notes 

 which follow the title of his poem (No. 265). Vide anted, p. 139. 

 A "receipt" from the falconer of Lorenzo de' Medici to the 

 Treasurer of the Due d'Orl^ans for a gratuity of " xxxii sols, 

 touraois" on his bringing a present of a falcon, 15th Jan. 

 1483, is printed by Charavay (No. 210), p. 7. 



XIX. AND XX. Italian Miniatures of the Thir- 

 teenth Century, illustrating the Latin MS. of the 

 Emperor Frederick II., " De arte venandi cum 

 avibus." 



As these miniatures, reproduced from the facsimiles in 

 D'Agincourt's famous Histoire de FArt, have already been 

 described on pp. 171-172, it will be unnecessary to repeat the 

 account there given of them ; but the reader may be reminded 

 of Baron Pichon's admirable commentary (No. 201) on the 

 treatise which they serve to illustrate. 



Those who are interested in the subject of illuminated manu- 

 scripts would do well to read the very instructive lectures 

 which were delivered at the London Institution by Messrs. R. 

 Thomson and W. Tite, M.P., in 1857, " On some of the most 

 characteristic features of illuminated manuscripts from the eighth 

 to the eighteenth century"; and "On the materials and practice 

 of illuminators, with biographical and literary notices illustrative 

 of the art of illumination." 



XXI. A Falconer of Cyprus. Engraved by W. 



Skelton, from a picture by Titian, in possession of the 



Earl of Carlisle. 



From an inscription on the back of the picture it appears to 

 be the portrait of a brother of a queen of Cyprus. The words 

 are " Georgius Cornelius frater Caterinse Cipri et Hierusalera 

 (sic) Reginae." The original, which is on canvas, and in good 

 condition, has been a long time in the possession of the Earl of 

 Carlisle's family, and is preserved in the collection at Castle 

 Howard. About 1807 it was temporarily removed to London, 

 and was engraved for Forster's " British Gallery of Engravings 



