Beinecke MS 465               France, s. XV^^4/4
Concertacio leporarii et falconis, etc.

1.  ff. 1r-6r  [Heading:] Concertacio Leporarij et falconis. [text:] [M]ane
surgens nobilis an volatum In flumen vel venatum In siluam Iuueniliter Ire
pararet cepit dubius fluctuare...habitabunt in domo seruientque ad nutum
domini ferri sentenciam Implorantes.  Explicit.

     G. Holmer, ed., Le Debat du Faucon et du Levrier, Acta
Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Romanica Stockholmiensia 8 (Stockholm, 1978)
text:  pp. 29-42.  Holmer believes that Beinecke MS 465 is the only manuscript
to preserve the complete Latin text which was later translated into French by
Robert du Herlin, Secretary of King Louis XI.

2.  ff. 6v-8r  [Heading:] [B]ernardus de cura et modo rei familiaris vtilius
gubernande.  [text:] Licet omnium rerum mundanarum status et exitus negociorum
sub fortuna laborent...quem optauit ad que eam perducant merita sua dampnabilis
senectutis.  f. 8v ruled, but blank

     Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris;
PL 182.647-51 (Epistola 456).

     Parchment, ff. iv (paper) + 8 (ff. 25-32) + iv (paper), 240 x 185
(201 x 88) mm.  35
long lines.  Double or single upper horizontal bounding lines and single lower
and vertical lines, full across and full length.  Lightly ruled in
dark red ink.
     Eight leaves from two gatherings; leaves 5, 6 conjugate.
     Written in fine upright batarde script.
     3- to 2-line spaces for decorative initials unfilled.
     Lower margin chewed by rodent; parchment stained throughout; no loss of
text.
     Binding:  s. xix after 1881.  Dark brown goatskin, gold-tooled with medallion
of falcon on upper cover.  Bound by Riviere and Son (London, 1881-1939).

Written in France in the last quarter of the 15th century; formerly ff. 25-32
of a larger volume; early modern provenance unknown.  "101v" in lower margin,
in pencil, f. 1r.  Belonged to C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (bookplate; see catalogue
of his library, Hunting Hawking Shooting [London, 1928] v. 2, p. 320); his
sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1946, no. 2195).  Purchased from E. P. Goldschmidt
and Co. by David Wagstaff (bookplate); gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1946.

Barbara A. Shailor