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or Henne ” ; ££ Grype ” [ = Griffon ?] ; “ Herodius, or 
Faucon ” ; ££ Hirundo, or Swalowe ” ; ££ Kaladrins 55 (?) ; 
“ Larus ” [ =a gull]; ££ Locusta ” [ = Locust] ; “ Mergulus, 
or Cote ” ; “ Milvus, or Kyte 55 ; ££ Nicticorax, or Nyghte 
Crowe ” ; ££ Onocrocalus, or Myre-drumble ” ; 1 “ Pellicane ” ; 2 
££ Perdix, or Pertriche ” ; ££ Pavo, or Pecoke ” ; ££ Passeres, 
or Sparowes ” ; ££ Strucio, or Ostricke ” ; “ Turture ?J ; 3 
“ Vulture ” ; ££ IJlula 55 [ = Bittern] ; ££ Upupa, or Lapwynge ” ; 
££ Vespertilio, or Remouse ” [ =tlie bat]. 
He relates the legend of the ££ Pellicane ” killing its young 
when they ££ ben haughte, and begyn to wexe,” and bringing 
them to life again with its own blood. It is obvious that 
Turner owed some of his information to Bartholomew, as, 
of course, did Bartholomew to his Latin and Greek prede- 
cessors. 
*[1495 ?] Bartholomeu’ de | proprietatibus reram. | [By Wyken de 
Worde . . . “at prayer and desyre of Roger Thorney mercer ” ; 
Westminster : 1495 ?.] Brit. Mus. copy, I.B. 55242. 
Collation — Folio, Black ILettcr. Pt. I. comp. 201 and Pt. II. 
(commencing lib. XII De Avibus) comp. 276 printed leaves; in 
double columns, 42 lines to a full column. The title on first leaf 
and again on last leaf is printed from a block in white letters on 
a black ground. On reverse of last leaf is a woodcut device. 
Each book is headed by a woodcut. Lib. XII De Avibus, pt. 
2, Sigs. A to C 1 = 18 11. with woodcut at head of various birds. 
*1535. Anno, m.d.xxxv. | Bertholome | vs de | Proprietati | bus | 
rerum. | Londini in Aedibus Tho- | mae Bertheleti Re- | gii 
Impressoris. | Cum privilegio a Re- | ge indulto. | 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, Black ILettcr, 8 11. un. (title, prologue, 
and liber primus) + 11. ccclxxxvi. Liber XII De Avibus compr. 11. 
clxi-clxxv. Very numerous mistakes of pagination occur. The 
book ends thus : “ This Translation was ended at Berkeley the 
VI day of Feverer, the yere of our lorde mccclxxxxvii, the yere 
of the reyne of King Richard the Seconde after the Conqueste of 
Englande, xxii. The yere of my Lordes age Thomas Lorde of 
Berkeley, that made me to make this Translation, xlvii. 
“ And printed by me Thomas berthelet, the xxvii. yere of the 
most victori 0 reine of our mooste gratious soueraygne Lorde 
kynge Henry the . VIII.” 
1 “ Onocrotalus,” the modern Pelican. 
2 Not the Pelican of modern authors. See Swann, Diet, of English and Folk Names 
of Brit. Birds, 1913, pp. 175-6. 
3 “ The turture hath that name of the boyce.” 
