De arte venandi cum avibus

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Frederick II and his falcon, from a late 13th century manuscript of De arte venandi in Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal. lat 1071)
Frederick II and his falcon, from a late 13th century manuscript of De arte venandi in Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal. lat 1071)

De arte venandi cum avibus[1] is an illuminated manuscript containing the Latin text of "The art of Falconry" which was written in the 13th century by Frederic II von Hohenstaufen and lost in 1248 at Parma. The 2-column 111 folio parchment codex is a copy by King Manfred which reappeared after 1258, and went to the Vatican Library with the manuscripts of the Palatine Library. Besides the treatise on falconry the book contains systematic descriptions of 900 species of birds illuminated by 500 miniatures. The author introduced a binomial taxonomy system similar to that later reinvented or resumed by Linnaeus.

A copy of this book was written by Jean II Dampierre around 1300. An earlier European book on falconry was written by an anonymous noble of Vercelli in the tenth century.

Illustration for De arte venandi‎
Illustration for De arte venandi‎

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Literally "The Art of Hunting with Birds".

[edit] References

De arte venandi cum avibus, Bibliotheca Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1071, f. 79v/80r

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