The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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- The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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- Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
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"The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- The Contents of this Booke.
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The names of those Authors, from whome this collection of Falconrie is
borowed and made, both Iatalians and French. - Of Hawking by the Booke.
- In commendation of Hawking, George Turbervile.
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The Induction or Proeme to this Discourse, and Treatise
of Hawking. -
A GENERALL DIVISION OF Hawkes, & Birdes of prey, after the opinion of one
Francesco Sforzino Vicentino, an Italian Gentleman Falconer.- A second or Subdiuision.
- Of the names of Hawkes of prey.
- Of the kinds of Eagles.
- First of the browne or yellow Eagle.
- Of the blacke Eagle.
- Now as touching the Vultures, and first of the large ashe coloured or blacke Vulture.
- Of the lesse Vulture, which is the browne or whitish Vulture.
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The opinion of William Tardiffe a Frenchman, concerning the diuision of birds of prey, and other things
worthie the obseruation. - A Devise and Remedie for you, when the Eagle doth molest and hinder your game in Hawking.
- Now will I lay you downe the report of Francis Sforzino Vicentino, an Italian, as touching the Diuision and Nature of Eagles, and so proceede to the Falcon.
- Of the Falcon, and how many sorts of Falcons there are.
- The Haggart Falcon.
- The Barbarie, or Tartaret Falcon.
- The Gerfalcon.
- The Sacre.
- The Laner.
- The Tunician.
- Of the Falcon Gentle, and her property.
- An Observation.
- The good shape of a Falcon.
- Of the names of a Falcon, according to her age and taking.
- Of the Haggart Falcon, and why shee is called the Peregrine, or Haggart.
- Of the good shape of a Haggart Falcon.
- How to know a Haggart by her fleeing.
- The difference and ods betwixt the Haggart, and the Falcon Gentle.
- Of the Barbarie Falcon.
- For what cause this Falcon is called a Barbary, or Tartaret Falcon.
- Of the Gerfalcon.
- Of the Sacre.
- Of the Laner.
- Of the Italian Author.
- Of the Tunicion Falcon.
- The cause why shee is called a Tunycian.
- Of the Merlyn.
- Of the Hobbie.
- The Italians opinion of the Hobbie.
- Of the Goshawke, after the opinion of William Tardiffe a Frenchman.
- The good proportion and shape of a Goshawke.
- The ill shape of Goshawkes.
- Out of the French I haue collected this concer∣ning the Goshawke.
- Out of the Italian concerning the Goshawkes, and their kinds.
- Of the Sparowhake, out of the French Authors.
- The Diuersity of Sparowhawkes according to their times and age.
- The good shape and proportion of a Sparowhawke.
- What kinds of Sparowhawkes there are.
- Of the Matagasse.
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The Second Part or Booke of this
Collecti∣on of Falconrie. - Certaine speciall points necessary for a Falconer, or Ostreger, collected out of the Italian Authors.
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The first instruction is, how to make a Falcon▪ and other Hawkes fleeing, after the opinion of
Iean de Frauchiers. - The manner of fleeing with Hawks, as well to the field, as to the River, and first to the ri∣ver, according as Martine teacheth.
- To flye at the Hearon according to Martine.
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For the flight to the field as Master
Amè Cassian reachth. - Other slights to the field called great flights.
- Advertisement given by Master Martine, to make a Hawke bold and hardy, and to love her prey.
- How a man should vse an Eyasse Hawke.
- A consideration of the Diversitie of Hawkes Natures, acccording to Martine.
- How to seele a Sparrowhawke, and to make her fleeing, according to Guillam Tardiffe.
- How a man should manne a Sparow∣hawke, and make her fleeing.
- The meane to make a Sparrowhawke fleeing.
- To take Tyme from off a Hawkes feathers.
- How to right and make straight bruised feathers.
- To right and mend a Feather broken on the one side, and to ympe a bruised Feather.
- How to beare and make a Falcon.
- How you shall manne a Falcon, and bring her out of her ramage∣nesse.
- How to lure a Falcon lately manned.
- How you shall bath your Hawke beeing but lately reclaimed, how you shall make her fleeing, and to hate the checke.
- How to flee a Hearon.
- How a man shall make his Hawke to loue other Hawkes, when she hateth to flee with them.
- How you shall enseame a Hawke, or giue her ca∣stings, and skourings, &c.
- To enter or make a Hawke, after the fashion of Lombardy.
- To enseame a Falcon and to make her.
- To flee all manner of Fowles.
- How to make a trayne or flight for the Goshawke.
- To manne, hoode, and reclayme a Hawke, after the opinion of the Italian Falconer.
- To keepe and make Sarowhawkes.
- The manner to feed a Sparowhawke.
- Of feeding a Hawke.
- To manne and make a Hawke: and first of a Nyasse Falcon.
- Of Ramage Falcons.
- To vse a Hawke to the hoode
- To make your Hawke know your voyce,
- How to make a Hawke know her feeding.
- To make a Falcon bolde and ventrous.
- To make a Falcon know the Lure.
- How to call your Falcon loose and at large.
- How to call a Falcon that will come loose.
- To make a Falcon fleeing.
- To make a Falcon leaue the stand on the ground.
- To make the Falcon to the River.
- To make a Hawke inward at the River, when shee raketh out.
- To make a flight for a Haggart.
- How to make your Falcon kill her fowle at the first.
- How to doe when your river hawke will take stand in a tree.
- To make a hawke fond of the Lure.
- How to helpe a Hawke when shee is froward and coy through the pride of grease.
- When a Falcon will not holde in the head.
- How to keepe a Hawke high fleeing.
- To make a high fleeing hawke vpwards.
- To make a Falcon to the Hearon.
- To make your Hawke flee the wilde Hearon.
- Of such Hawkes as flee from the fist, and first of the Sacre.
- How to flee with the Lanner from the fish.
- To hawke with the Gerfalcon and the Mylion.
- To flee with the Merlyne at the. Partridge.
- To flee with the Merlyne at the Larke and Lenet.
- Of the time to mewe a Falcon.
- Of mewing at the Stocke or the Stone.
- Of mewing at large.
- How to mew Marlins.
- Of Goshawkes.
- To make fleeing the Goshawke, eyther Nyasse or Ramage.
- To make the Soare Goshawke or the Haggart Goshawke.
- To make a Goshawke flee to the Partridge.
- How to helpe a Hawke that turneth tayle to tayle, and giveth over her game.
- When a Goshawke will not flee at all.
- To make a Goshawke flee quickly.
- That a Goshawke being a good Partridger, bee not flowne with to the Feasant.
- How to vse a Haggart Goshawke.
- To flee with a Goshawke to the Riuer.
- Of fiecing the Wilde-goose and Crane with a Goshawke.
- To mew a Goshawke.
- To draw the Goshawke out of the Mewe.
- To make a mewed Goshawke fleeing.
- How to keepe Nyasse Sparowhawkes.
- To reclayme and make the Nyasse Sparowhawke.
- To traine a Nyasse Sparowhawke.
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How to Hawke with a Sparowhawke being mad
. - How to make a Sparowhawke, being eyther Soarehawke Ramage or Mewed Hawke.
- Certaine obseruations for an Ostreger in keeping of a Goshawke.
- Certaine obseruations concerning Sparowhawkes.
- The Third Part, or Booke, of this collection of Falconrie.
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Of the diseases and cures of Hawkes. The opinion of M.
Francesco Sforzino Ʋicentino, an Italian Gen∣tleman Falconer. - How to know the health and disease of a Hawke by her casting.
- Of naughty castings.
- The way to know in what tune hawks are by their mewting.
- Or the Fever or Ague wherewith Hawkes are wont to bee molested and troubled.
- Of diseases of the head, and first of the Apoplexie or falling evill.
- Of the Apostumes of the head.
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Of the distillation and swelling of a Hawkes head, and also of her eyes and na
es. - Of the giddinesse and shaking of a Hawkes head.
- Of the Cataract in the eyes of a Hawke.
- Of such evils as happen to Hawkes in their chaps and mouthes.
- Of the Pantas.
- Of the infirmity and disease in the gorge of a Hawke. when shee doth cast her gorge.
- Of divers Accidents that happen to Hawkes, by meanes of fowle∣nesse of the gorge, and indisposition there∣of.
- Of wormes that molest and trouble hawkes out of measure.
- Of the Flanders.
- Of the disease of the Liver.
- Of diseases that happen to Hawkes feet, and first as tou∣ching the swelling of a Hawkes foot.
- Of the Gout in a Hawke.
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Of the Pinne in the Hawkes foot, a disease much like the corne in the foot of a man. The Italians tearme them
Chiodetti. - Of the breaking of a Pounce, or Cley of your Hawke.
- When the thigh or legge of a hawke is out of ioynt.
- When a hawke hath broken a thigh or a legge.
- Of the stripes and bruises in a Hawke.
- Of Hawkes Lyse.
- Of misfortunes that happen to Hawkes in the mew. And first of all, of their laying egges in the mew.
- To cause a Hawke to mewe fast and well.
- Of Accidents that happen and light vppon a hawkes feathers, and first how to vse the matter when a feather cannot bee ymped.
- The way and manner how to ympe a Hawks feather, howsoever it be broken or bruised.
- How to ympe the traine of a Hawke beeing all broken, and neuer a feather whole or sound.
- The way and meane to prepare Mummy for Fal∣cons, and other birds of prey, and when and how it ought to be given.
- Mummie is prepared in this manner.
- Of the cauterising instruments and tooles, where∣with Falconers doe seare their Hawkes in de∣sperate cures, when nothing else will serue the turne but fire, the last refuge of all others.
- How to keepe and maintaine all manner of Hawkes in health, good plight, and liking.
- Of Aloes Cicotrina, wherewith you must make scowrings for your Hawkes.
- Of common pylles that are given to Hawkes for laxatiue medicines or downe∣ward scowrings.
- Another way to scowre by medicine.
- To make a Hawke cast when she keepeth it too long.
- Of the bathing of Hawkes.
- To keepe Hawkes from inconveniences which they take of themselues, or which happen to them vnawares.
- How men should make their Hawkes to tyre every day.
- Another receit to keepe and maintaine your Hawkes in good health.
- That the diseases which Hawkes haue in their heads, doe commonly come of giuing them too great gorges, and of fowle feeding: the meane to know it.
- The remedy of the said disease.
- Of a confirmed Rhewme that commeth of colde.
- Another medicine that Mallop in giveth in stead of the other aforesaid.
- For the disease of the eares which com∣meth of the Rhewme, and colde.
- Of the disease of the eye-lids which commeth of the Rhewme and cold.
- Of the Hawe in the eye which commeth of moysture and cold, and how it hapneth.
- Of a blow given to the eye, or of some other mischance.
- Of the Filme in the eye, which some call the Veroll, or the Pinne and Webbe.
- For the disease that breedeth in Hawkes beakes, commonly called Formicas.
- For the disease that breedeth in the Nares of Hawkes.
- The disease called the Frownce, which breedeth within hawkes beakes, and in their tongues.
- Of the disease called by the French men Escorchillons, a kind of Frownce or Canker.
- The disease of the Canker which breedeth in the throats and tongs of hawkes.
- Of a kind of Pippe that is in a Hawke.
- Of the disease of their palate which falleth to swelling by reason of moysture of the head.
- For the disease of the iawes
- M. Michelins medicine forths same.
- Of the Hawke that hath broken her clappe by some mischance.
- Of the falling sicknesse which happeneth to hawkes as well as to men, and other living things.
- Of another falling euill, which first breedeth in the necke and in the gorge of a Hawke.
- Of the Fistula, a griefe that proceedes through paine of the head.
- For the swimming in the head of a hawke.
- For all manner of diseases in the head, and specially for the ach that is in a Hawkes head.
- Of the stone, and how, and whereof it commeth.
- For the disease called the Filanders which hap∣pen in the bodies of Hawkes: and first of such as are in their gorge.
- Of the Filanders that are in hawkes bowels, and in their Raines.
- Of the Filanders or worms that are in hawkes legs & thighs, which the Frenchmen call Vers.
- For the diease called in French the (Aiguils) an evill worse than the Filanders, for which I know no apt English terme, and therefore must borrow the French terme of mine Author.
- When a Hawke gapeth inordinately vp on the fist of her keeper.
- Of Apostumes that breed in Hawkes.
- Of a Hawke that hath her Liver inflamed.
- Of the Canker which breedeth of overgreat heate in the Liver.
- Of the Pantas of the gorge.
- Of another Pantas that commeth of colde.
- Of the Pantas that is in the reynes and Kidneys.
- Of the Hawke that is morfounded by some mischance.
- Of the disease that is called the privie and hidden evill in a Hawke, for which we haue no speciall tearme.
- Of the disease and weakenesse in there ynes.
- Of Hawkes that haue the ague or Fever.
- Of the Hawke that voydeth wormes.
- Of the Teynt in a hawkes feather, and how many kinds of it there be.
- Of the Hawke that indeweth not, ne putteth over as she should doe.
- Of the hawke that can neyther cast vp her meat nor endew it as she ought.
- Another medicine to make her cast her gorge.
- Of the Hawke that casteth her gorge over much, and cannot indew as she should doe
- Of the Hawke that hath lost her appetite and will not feed to make her eager without bringing her low.
- When Hawkes are low brought, a remedie.
- Of a Hawke that hath no list to flee, and is become vnlusty, or slothfull.
- Of the Hawke that hath broken her wing by some mischance.
- Of a Hawke that hath had some blow or stripe vpon her wing.
- Of the Hawke that hath her wing out of ioynt.
- Of a Hawke that hath her pinion broken.
- Of the Hawke that hath her legge or thigh broken.
- Of the Hawke that is wounded with a stripe, or some other misfortune.
- Another medicine of Master Cassians making.
- Of the Hawke that hath swollen feet.
- Of the swelling in the legges or thighes.
- Of the swelling in a hawkes foote which wee tearme the pin, or pin Gout.
- Of the Hawke that careth away her owne feet
- The manner of the taking vp of Hawkes veynes when an humor droppeth downe too fast on their feet.
- The manner of scowring and vsing your Hawkes when they are to be cast into the mew.
- The manner how to deale so with a Hawke in the mew, as she may avoide the mis∣chances of the mew which sun∣dry times doe happen, as wel diseases as other harms.
- Another way.
- The maner of dyetting and keeping Hawkes in the mewe.
- The manner of drawing Hawkes out of the Mew.
- When Aloes is to bee giuen to Hawkes that are fleeing.
- Of the Hawke that hath her talons broken.
- Of the Hawke that layes an Egge in the mew, or out of the Mew.
- The manner of taking Hawkes in the Eyree.
- Of Hawkes that haue lice, mites or o∣ther vermine.
- Of the Hawke that holdeth not her wings vp so well as she should do, but lol∣leth them.
- Of the Crampgout.
- To keepe a Hawke from all maner of Gowtes, the French mans opinion is this.
- For the biting of a venomous beast or worme.
- For the wound or biting of any beast.
- A Treatise and briefe discourse of the cure of Spa∣niels when they be any way ouer-heat: deuised & written by M. Francesco Sforzino Vicentino the Italian Gentleman Falconer.
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Of divers accidents that happen to dogges, and first of that ill which is called For
ica. - Of a kind of wormes breeding in the hurts and mangie parts of a Spaniell.
- To cut off the tip of a Spanels tayle or sterne.
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❧ The Epilogue vnto the
Reader.