Beinecke MS 103                                                          Italy, s. XV/XVI
Ghatrif; Moamin

     1. ff. 1r-23v    [Ghatrif:] Incipit tractatus aujum de doctrina eorum
     et de medicamjnibus Infirmitatum eorundem qui liber est translatus de
     persico In latjnum. [text:] Dixit Gatriph persicus Multi persiarum et grecorum
     sapientes In arte auium rapacium...plenum aqua umida et bibat si
     uoluerit.

     2. ff. 24r-66v    [Moamin:] Incipit liber primus Medicamjni [sic]
     falconerij, translatus de arabico In latjnum per magistrum theodorum
     phisicum domjni federjci Romanj Imperatorjs Et correctus est per ipsum
     Imperatorem tempore obsidjonjs fanencie de quo libro sunt tres
     tractus...Capitulum primum. Genera volatium viuencium de rapina quibus
     vtitur gens aucupando...vapor ad ipsum et sudet et quando sudabjt omnes
     pediculi cadent. Et finis.

          This treatise is divided into 3 sections, all on falconry; the
     second and third are preceded by lists of the chapters. Missing from
     the text are the Prologue and "Quartus, natura et medicamen quatrupedum
     cum quibus venamur."
          For the manuscript tradition of both arts. 1 and 2 see H.
     Tjernald, Moamin et Ghatrif (Stockholm, 1945); Beinecke MS 103 is nos.
     21 and 5 on p. 4.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Sirene 13880), ff. iv (paper)
     + 67 + iii (early paper) + iv (paper), 277 x 206 (230 x 115) mm.
     Written in ca. 25 long lines; there are no rulings; the page has been
     folded vertically to delineate the written space.
          I^^14, II^^18, III^^16, IV^^20 (-20).
          Written by a single person in a sprawling italic.
          Binding: s. xix. Three-quarter vellum, gold-tooled, with marbled
     paper sides. Bound by Domenico Conti-Borbone, Milan (tag inside front
     cover).

          Written in Italy at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th
     century; early provenance unknown. The codex was rebound in Milan
     during the 19th century. Belonged to Professor Hermann Suchier (1848-
     1914; bookplate) and C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (bookplate; see catalogue
     Hunting Hawking Shooting [London, 1928] v. 2, p. 330); his sale
     (Sotheby's, 12 March 1946, no. 2210). Purchased from Goldschmidt's by
     David Wagstaff (bookplate); presented to Yale by Mrs. David Wagstaff in
     1946.

     secundo folio: Capitulum de reclamacione

    Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 30, no. 103.
          A. Lupis, "Petrus de l'Astore, Moamyn, Ghatriph: Sulla tradizione
     dei trattati di falconeria d'epoca federiciana," Codices
     manuscripti 3
     (1977) p. 16.

     Barbara A. Shailor