Author: FREDERICK (FRIEDRICH) II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Title: Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris, de arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nun primum edita.Including: ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De falconibus, asturibus & accipitribus.Augsburg, Johannes Praetorius (Hans Schultes), 1596. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and on the otherwise blank last leaf, and a double-page woodcut illustration showing emperor Frederick II seated on his throne with beside him two attendants on their knees holding hawks. Further with two small woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Later brown leather with 3 gold-tooled small stars in the centre of each board and the title lettered in gold on the spine, decorated endpapers.
Description: [16], 414, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the most important Mediaeval work on hawking, “still one of the best” (Harting), and an important ornithological and zoological work in general, written by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250). He developed an enthusiasm for falconry in Italy and brought experts back from the Middle East when he returned from the crusades in 1239. His treatise discusses the capture, care and feeding, training and use of hawks, as well as the equipment, and was largely responsible for the spread of Middle and Near Eastern falconry through Europe. "By far the greatest contribution to zoology was due, mirabile dictu, to the emperor Frederick II. His treatise on falconry, De arte venandi cum avibus, was completed by 1248... It is an astounding work, taking into account the Greek and Arabic literature on the subject, but essentially based upon the author's own observations and experiments, and upon the information elicited by himself form his Muslim advisers. It set forth a number of new anatomical facts ... and discussed bird migrations and the mechanical conditions of flight. Frederick even instituted experiments to determine how vultures were attracted to their prey... I said that Frederick's knowledge was partly derived from Muslim writings. Indeed an Arabic treatise was translated for him by his astrologer and secretary, Theodore of Antioch, and another in Persian was also known to him." (Sarton). The work is followed by another celebrated 13th-century treatise on falconry: Albertus Magnus' De falconibus, asturibus & accipitribus. It was originally part of his De animalibus, where it comprised more than half of the text.With a light blue and copper/gold book plate on the front pastedown (a leopard or jaguar in two parts with three small stars in the middle and H.L in tiny lettering below). With a water stain in the upper inner corners of the leaves throughout, some occasional foxing and staining (mainly in the margins). Otherwise in good condition.l Ceresoli, p. 243; Harting 308; Lindner 11.643.01; Nissen IVB 333; Sarton, Introduction to the history of science II, p. 516; Schwerdt I, p. 187; Souhart, col. 197; Thiéboud, cols. 431-432; USTC 690572; VD16 F 2826 (and VD16 A 1339 for second part).
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Title: Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris, de arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nun primum edita.Including: ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De falconibus, asturibus & accipitribus.Augsburg, Johannes Praetorius (Hans Schultes), 1596. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and on the otherwise blank last leaf, and a double-page woodcut illustration showing emperor Frederick II seated on his throne with beside him two attendants on their knees holding hawks. Further with two small woodcut decorated initials and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Later brown leather with 3 gold-tooled small stars in the centre of each board and the title lettered in gold on the spine, decorated endpapers.
Description: [16], 414, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the most important Mediaeval work on hawking, “still one of the best” (Harting), and an important ornithological and zoological work in general, written by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250). He developed an enthusiasm for falconry in Italy and brought experts back from the Middle East when he returned from the crusades in 1239. His treatise discusses the capture, care and feeding, training and use of hawks, as well as the equipment, and was largely responsible for the spread of Middle and Near Eastern falconry through Europe. "By far the greatest contribution to zoology was due, mirabile dictu, to the emperor Frederick II. His treatise on falconry, De arte venandi cum avibus, was completed by 1248... It is an astounding work, taking into account the Greek and Arabic literature on the subject, but essentially based upon the author's own observations and experiments, and upon the information elicited by himself form his Muslim advisers. It set forth a number of new anatomical facts ... and discussed bird migrations and the mechanical conditions of flight. Frederick even instituted experiments to determine how vultures were attracted to their prey... I said that Frederick's knowledge was partly derived from Muslim writings. Indeed an Arabic treatise was translated for him by his astrologer and secretary, Theodore of Antioch, and another in Persian was also known to him." (Sarton). The work is followed by another celebrated 13th-century treatise on falconry: Albertus Magnus' De falconibus, asturibus & accipitribus. It was originally part of his De animalibus, where it comprised more than half of the text.With a light blue and copper/gold book plate on the front pastedown (a leopard or jaguar in two parts with three small stars in the middle and H.L in tiny lettering below). With a water stain in the upper inner corners of the leaves throughout, some occasional foxing and staining (mainly in the margins). Otherwise in good condition.l Ceresoli, p. 243; Harting 308; Lindner 11.643.01; Nissen IVB 333; Sarton, Introduction to the history of science II, p. 516; Schwerdt I, p. 187; Souhart, col. 197; Thiéboud, cols. 431-432; USTC 690572; VD16 F 2826 (and VD16 A 1339 for second part).
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- Book number: ABC_49302
- Book number: ABC_49302