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    • Uniform Title:Moamin.
    • Title:Treatise on falconry, etc.
    • Published/Created:Italy, [between 1300 and 1400]
    • Physical Description:ff. i + i + 76 : parchment ; 195 x 128 (143 x 87) mm.
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    • Notes:Script: Written in a small round gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37v, 67v-75v; Scribe 2) ff. 39r-67r.
      One 6-line initial, red and blue, filled with red and blue penwork in a floral pattern. 4-, 2-, and 1-line pen initials, red, with long trailing serifs and blue calligraphic flourishes. 2- and 1-line initials outside text column. On f. 1r, arms of the duchy of Austria (crudely executed; later addition?):, or, two eagles palewise displayed and crowned sable (Hungary): impaled with barry of 6 gules and argent; supported by griffins passant gules; the whole set between thick pink bands. Line-fillers red undulating lines. Rubrics throughout.
      Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on three supports, the two outer ones leather, the central one tawed skin, laid and nailed in channels in wooden boards. Plain wound primary endbands sewn on a tawed core at the head and a leather one at the tail, laid in grooves and nailed, with a secondary embroidery added. The square spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in dark red goatskin, blind-tooled, with four brass catches on the lower board. Leather cracking along joints, clasps wanting.
      In Latin.
      Belonged to David Wagstaff; gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1946.
      Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs.
    • Publications:Faye and Bond, p. 32, no. 127. A. Lupis, La sezione venatoria della Biblioteca Aragonese di Napoli...(Bari, 1975) pp. 36-37. Idem, "Petrus de l'Astore, Moamyn, Ghatriph: Sulla tradizione dei trattati di falconeria d'epoca federiciana," Codices manuscripti 3 (1977) p. 16.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 127.
    • Cite as:Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Moamin.
      Animal culture.
      Dogs.
      Falconry--Early works to 1800.
      Horses--Early works to 1800.
      Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--14th century.