Item talk:Q38894

Descr. de Shailor 1984:

Beinecke MS 79 Spain, s. XVI

Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Aves de caça

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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

Paper, 3 leaves (presently unnumbered) + pp. 1-130 (pagination by a modern hand, in pencil) + 1 leaf, 215 × 159 (168 × 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.