Beinecke MS 79                                                          Spain, s. XVI
Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Aves de caça

     1. f. i recto-verso.   Nostro Senor Dios. Quando Crio el mundo e fizo
     el hombre todas las animalias...podran sere Caminados y los aues
     Remediadas.

          Preface; J. Gutierrez de la Vega, ed., Libros de cetreria (Madrid,
     1879) v. 1, pp. 143-46.

     2. ff. ii recto - iii recto.    Tabla. Capitulo. Primero de las aves
     que son llamadas de Rapinya...Capitulo xxxxvij. de quales cosas...el
     cacador e traer consigo para sus aues [followed by the heading for
     chapter 1, placed incorrectly at the end of the table] Fin. f. iii
     verso blank

          J. Gutierrez, op. cit., pp. 146-49.

     3. pp. 1-129    De cada dia. Vieron los hombres de como naturalmente
     vnas aues comen la las otras...E ansi Aura tu Falcon Talante de Comer.
     ["H. M. D. L. V." added in a somewhat later hand] Veni ad saluandum nos
     Domine deus noster. pp. 130-32 ruled, but blank

          J. Gutierrez, op. cit., pp. 151-344.

          Paper, 3 leaves (presently unnumbered) + pp. 1-130 (pagination by
     a modern hand, in pencil) + 1 leaf, 215 x 159 (168 x 103) mm. Written
     in 30 long lines for preface, 27 for text; frame-ruled in lead.
          I-IV^^16, V^^6 (-6). Signature for first leaves of gathering, on
     recto (a.i, a.ij, a.iij, etc).
          Written by a single scribe in a careful italic script.
          Crude initial and heading (in gold and subdued water colors) on f.
     i recto and f. 1r; other small initials, 4- to 1-line, in similar
     colors throughout text. Headings in red; initials of each paragraph in
     blue or red.
          Waterstained throughout.
          Binding: s. xvii. Black goatskin, blind-tooled. Fragments of
     manuscripts (covered by paper pastedowns) serve as binding
     reinforcements.

          Written in Spain in the 16th century; early provenance unknown.
     Belonged to Sir John Saunders Sebright; sale to Robinson's in 1939 from
     whom it was purchased by David Wagstaff (bookplate). Presented to Yale
     in 1944 by Mr. and Mrs. David Wagstaff.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 26, no. 79.
          M. G. Wynne, "The Wagstaff Sporting Books and Manuscripts,"
     Gazette 20 (1945) pp. 11-12.

     Barbara A. Shailor