Beinecke MS 76                                                        Italy, s. XV^^3/4
Agogo Mago

          ff. 1r-8v   Lo libro medesynal delli spariueri vuol chussi che
     quando lo spariuero se infirmo...Sello spariuero auera nudhi dalli
     felle chaura cum olio et cum insenco. Complito che lo libro de agogo
     mago a grilliciano [?] Re de tute le passione vien a falchoni a
     hosthori et spariueri. ff.9r-10v ruled, but blank

          Printed as the second part of Agogo Mago, Libro de la natura de
     cavalli...(Venice, 1517) Gi-viii; A. Lupis, Petrus de
     l'Astore (Bari, 1979) p. 32, n.

          Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 10 + i (paper), 220 x 142 (155 x 100)
     mm. Written in 30 long lines; double vertical bounding lines. Ruled in
     hard point, hair side, for vertical lines; ink for horizontal;
     prickings along upper and lower edges.
          One gathering of ten leaves.
          Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand.
          One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine
	ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale
	yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an
	unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked
     gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and
     simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red
     penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and
     blue throughout.
          Binding: s. xix. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.

          Written in Italy (possibly Florence) in the third quarter of the
     15th century according to A. C. de la Mare; unidentified arms on f. 1r
     (see above). Belonged to C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (bookplate; see catalogue
     Hunting Hawking Shooting [London, 1928] v. 2, p. 315, pl. 154 of f.
     1r); his sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1946, no. 2174). Purchased from
     Quaritch, 26 Oct. 1946, by the Yale Library Associates, with funds
     contributed by Mrs. Samuel Milbank.

     secundo folio: [por]tato fioli tute

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 26, no. 76.

     Barbara A. Shailor