The "Fauconnerie" of Aymé Cassian and its interaction with other falconry texts between the East and the West

The Fauconnerie is a falconry treatise written by Aymé Cassian at Rhodes, in the fifteenth century. It is preserved in three copies: Montpellier, Bibliothèque universitaire de médecine, H 453; Narbonne, Bibliothèque municipale, 6 (dated 1470) and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, naf. 4506 and has not been edited yet. The different versions are three independent testimonies of the same text. The version preserved at Paris is older than those kept in Montpellier and Narbonne, which are closer to each other than to the Paris text. The content is mainly therapeutic, but there are also some chapters with diet instructions or advice about training to hunt. The most importance source of the Fauconnerie is the Livre du Prince, another unedited falconry treatise, dating from the fourteenth century, which is based on the now lost treatises by Molopin and Michelin. The three authors, Molopin, Michelin and Aymé Cassian are mentioned in the foreword of the Livre de faulconnerie by Jean De Francières, a popular hunting treatise from the fifteenth century.

ISBN:978-2-600-06236-7

Publication year:2021

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