Fauconnerie

Description

Title: Fauconnerie
Creator: Artelouche de Alagona
Published / Created: 1504.
Publication Place: Southern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie, printed several times between 1567 and 1628
Description: In French.
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.
Provenance: Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1987 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii (paper) + ii (parchment) + 50 + ii (parchment) + iii (paper) : 180 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Artelouche de Alagona.
Subject (Topic): Falconry
French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Artelouche de Alagona
Falconry > Early works to 1800
French literature > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.