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Fauconnerie
Creator
Title
Fauconnerie.
Created
Southern France, 1504.
Physical Description
ff. iii (paper) + ii (parchment) + 50 + ii (parchment) + iii (paper) : parchment ; 180 x 120 mm.
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Script: Copied by scribe Vincent Philippon from Avignon (except f. 1) in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda). Calligraphic extensions of the letters in the upper and lower margin (on f. 48r ending in a monstrous animal's head).
Decoration: Paragraph marks in liquid gold on an alternately red and blue square background. 2- or 3-line, exceptionally 4-line plain initials in liquid gold (Capitalis) on an alternately red and blue square background. Space for a full-page miniature above two lines of text was provided on the facsimile page f. 1r.; a full-page picture, showing a falcon, on f. 45r. includes also a few small marginal images.
Binding: 20th century French red-brown morocco with gilt edges inside; spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
In French.
Record created by Beinecke staff.
Provenance
Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1987 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie, printed several times between 1567 and 1628.
Publications
A. Smets, B. Van den Abeele, “Manuscrits et traités de chasse français du Moyen Age. Recensement et perspectives de recherche”, Romania, 116 (1998), pp. 316-367 (340).
A. Smets, B. Van den Abeele, “Manuscrits et traités de chasse français du Moyen Age. Recensement et perspectives de recherche”, Romania, 116 (1998), pp. 316-367 (340).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 17, 2010
References
Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - France - 16th century.
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