Beinecke MS 90                                                         France, s. XVI
Jean Franchieres, La fauconnerie

     1. ff. 1r-145r    //Michelin. Cestuy fut toot son temps faulconnier du
     Roy de chippre...[text begins:] Selon que dyent les trois maistres de
     faulconnerye dessusditz Ilz sont sept manieres de faulcons...Quant vous
     vouldrez mettre vostre oiseau en mue...//

          Begins imperfectly in the Prologue and apparently ends at the
     beginning of Bk. 4, ch. 22. The treatise in MS 90, based on the works
     of Malopin, Michelin, and Ame Cassian, differs considerably from the
     early printed editions (e. g., Paris, 1531 [?]).

     2. ff. 145r-147r    Miscellaneous notes on the care of falcons,
     including one recipe glued to f. 147r. ff. 147v-161r blank; signatures
     and pen trials on f. 161v

          Paper (watermarks buried in gutter), ff. iii (paper) + 161 + iii
     (paper), 213 x 155 (161 x 103) mm. Frame-ruled in hard point, ca. 17
	lines.
          Too closely bound to collate.
          Art. 1 written by a single scribe in a sprawling batarde. Notes on
     ff. 145r-147r added by several later writers.
          Major headings in red.
          Loss of text on ff. 145r-146r due to trimming.
          Binding: s. xix. Green goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder
     as MS 467.

          Written in France in the 16th century; inscriptions on f. 161v
     include: Jehan Goels (s. xvi), Monsieur de la Porte (s. xvii). Belonged
     to Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767-1846; bookplate) and David Wagstaff
     (bookplate). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1944.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 58, no. 90.
          M. G. Wynne, "The Wagstaff Sporting Books and Manuscripts,"
     Gazette 20 (1945) p. 12.

     Barbara A. Shailor