Frank, I, 284-285; Schwerdt, I, 184; Thi\u00e9baud, 428; Souhart, 194-195; Harting, 145; Mortimer, French, 237; Brun, 192; Adams, D-327.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition bringing together for the first time these four texts devoted to falconry.<\/p>\n
Copy with Bouchet’s dedication, a print run for which Thi\u00e9baud notes: \u201cCopies with G. Bouchet’s dedication are the rarest\u201d (Thi\u00e9baud).<\/p>\n
Franchi\u00e8res’ text\u2014previously published around 1531 (only two copies are known to have been offered for sale at public auction: the Pichon and Lignerolles copies)\u2014is followed by La Fauconnerie by Guillaume Tardif, then La Fauconnerie d’Arthelouche by Alagona. The work ends with the fourth text, entitled Recueil de tous les oyseaux de proye qui servent \u00e0 la vollerie & fauconnerie (Collection of all birds of prey used in falconry), written by Guillaume Bouchet.<\/p>\n
The privilege of this edition was shared between Enguilbert de Marnef and Guillaume Bouchet. This copy came off Bouchet’s presses with a title ending with the word \u201cCassia\u201d and with six preliminary leaves, unlike Enguilbert de Marnef’s edition, which has only four (see details given by Mortimer).<\/p>\n
The treatise by Jean de Franchi\u00e8res (born in the first quarter of the 15th century, died in 1488), composed according to the manuscripts and teachings of three master falconers \u2013 as indicated on the title page of the original edition \u2013 was written in 1484 at the request of Jacques du Fou, Grand Huntsman of France, seneschal of Poitou and lieutenant of Louis XI in Roussillon. The work was brought to light by the Lord of Vigean, Fran\u00e7ois du Fou, grandson of the seneschal (cf. Petit, Add., 38). From 1585 onwards, Franchi\u00e8res’ collection was added to Du Fouilloux’s V\u00e9nerie, becoming its official supplement until 1634.<\/p>\n
“En Europe, et particuli\u00e8rement en France, le d\u00e9duite de vol, devenant un des passe-temps favoris des nobles, perfectionne, d\u00e8s le IXe si\u00e8cle, ses m\u00e9thodes en m\u00eame temps qu’il \u00e9labore son langage propre \u00e0 l’aide, entre autres, des versions latines, puis romanes, des ouvrages assembl\u00e9s de Moamin et de Ghatrif; qui plus est, ceux-ci serviront de base \u00e0 tous les auteurs post\u00e9rieurs qui y puiseront ou s’en inspireront. L’Anonyme des Livres du Roi Modus et de la Reine Ratio<\/i>, celui du Livre du roi Dancus<\/i>, d’Arcussia, de Franchi\u00e8res, Tardif et bien d’autres encore ne sauront s’affranchir de l’\u0153uvre de nos deux c\u00e9l\u00e8bres fauconniers arabes ; preuves en sont, dans tous ces trait\u00e9s, les nombreux passages directement traduits du texte original de ces deux inconnus musulmans.<\/p>\n
On ne pourra donc s’\u00e9tonner en constatant la frappante similitude qu’offrent, en langue de volerie, les expressions arabes et leurs \u00e9quivalents en vieux fran\u00e7ais, celles-ci s’\u00e9tant, le plus souvent, inspir\u00e9es de celles-l\u00e0. C’est cette similitude que nous avons, par ces quelques glanures ne pouvant pr\u00e9tendre \u00e0 l’exhaustivit\u00e9, tent\u00e9 de mettre en relief, tout en conservant le souci de pr\u00e9ciser le sens de plusieurs termes arabes dont les d\u00e9finitions, chez nos lexicographes, nous sont apparues souvent insuffisantes, lorsqu’ils y figurent, et de combler quelques lacunes.<\/p>\n
Le style de la langue fran\u00e7aise de fauconnerie, dans les expressions consacr\u00e9es que nous donnons en italique, pourrait \u00eatre tax\u00e9 d’archa\u00efsme si l’on oubliait que cette langue est unique, qu’elle n’a pas connu de rajeunissement et, partant, qu’elle reste le seul moyen d’expression de nos fauconniers modernes, dans leur entreprise de renaissance du noble d\u00e9duit d’oiseaux” (Fran\u00e7ois Vir\u00e9, in : Falconaria Arabica. Glanures Philologiques. Arabica, 1962\/no.2, pp. 158ff.).<\/p>\n
The woodcut illustration consists of 10 engravings for Franchi\u00e8res, 9 engravings for Tardif, none for Algona, and 10 for Bouchet. The woodcuts – repeated – show varieties of raptors (falcons, eagles, vultures, etc.).<\/p>\n
This edition is rarely found complete and in good condition.<\/p>\n
USTC locates only one copy of Bouchet’s edition in institutional libraries (Cambridge, Houghton Library), as well as 3 copies of Marnef’s edition (Cambridge, Houghton; Maryland, College Park; New Haven, Yale).<\/p>\n
A very good copy.<\/p>\n
Prestigious provenances : Richard Heber (stamp, sale London, 14 June 1834, lot 2203) \u2013 baron d\u2019Off\u00e9mont (note) \u2013 baron Pichon (1812-1896 ; bookplate, his sale Paris, 1897, Part I, lot 687) \u2013 Marcel Jeanson (bookplate with shelf number \u201c1425\u201d ; his sale Monaco, 1st<\/sup> March 1987, lot 238, FF. 52.000 hammer) \u2013 H. Bradley Martin (bookplate, sale 12-13 December, New York, lot 1555) \u2013 Yves Burrus (bookplate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (220 x 155 mm) 6 unn.ll., 160 pp. ; 2 unn.ll., 96 pp. ; 1 nn.l., 37 pp. ; 64 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red speckled edges (small portion missing at foot of spine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":85456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[534],"product_tag":[1243,566,1342],"class_list":{"0":"post-85467","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-hunting","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-hunting","9":"product_tag-ornithology","10":"pa_auteur-franchieres-jean-de-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Jean de FRANCHIERES","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Poitiers, par Enguilbert de Marnef , et les Bouchetz fr\u00e8res, 1567","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n