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 1921 OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK II 337 C. University of Valencia, MS. 402. Parchment, 238 folios, fifteenth century, with the arms of Aragon-Sicily. Attributed in a hand of the eighteenth century to Thomas of Capua (!). See Marcelino Gutierrez del Cafio, Catdlogo de los Manuscritos existentes en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Valencia (Valencia [1915]), i. 154 f., with a facsimile of the first page which shows a text identical with B. D. Rennes, MS. 227, paper, 404 folios, fifteenth century : ' Liber falconum cum quibus venantur.' With chapter headings throughout and a table of contents at the close, fos. 389-404 ; text as in B. E. Bologna, University Library, MS. Lat. 419 (717). See Studt Italiani di Filologia Classica, xvi. 254. F. MS. formerly in possession of Baron Pichon, from whose library it passed in 1869 to M. Giraud de Savine. See Bulletin du Bibliophile, xvi. 891-3. Closely related to B. Copy executed for Astorre Manfredi of Faenza, probably Astorre II (11468). The two families of manuscripts thus correspond to two editions. The first or two-book family is Manfred's edition, with the additional matter which he discovered as well as with notes of his own. The second or six-book family was not thus revised and supplemented, but it fills the lacunae in books i and ii. Whether Manfred revised the last four books also is a question which cannot be answered from the manuscripts so far examined. The fact that the French versions likewise contain but two books shows that a two-book text was in circulation in the thirteenth century, and lends probability to Pichon's hypothesis * that Manfred's revision did not extend to the later books. So far as they can be identified, Manfred's additions are of two sorts. One group, consisting of his own practical observa- tions, is brief and relatively unimportant, 2 their brevity not appearing in the edition, where their beginning is marked by passage is not indicated. Collation with the text of the second family shows that these are ordinarily but a few lines in length. 3 A good example runs as follows : Sunt et alie rationes quas Manfridus rex Sicilie, quondam divi Augusti imperatoris huius libri auctoris filius, addendas providit cum librum ipsum coram se legi mandavit. Cum aves omnes tarn aquatice et medie 1 Bulletin du Bibliophile, xvi. 887. 2 They are less important than is supposed by Helene M. Arndt, Studien zur inneren Regierungsgeschichte Manfreds (Heidelberg, 1911), pp. 152 f. 8 Besides those given above in the text, Manfred's glosses are in the edition as follows : i. 4 ' Causa. . . rationabiliter ' (26 lines) ; i. 53 * Inter modos. . . semper in aquis ' (18 lines) ; i. 54 ' Preterea aves. . . ut dicit Philosophus in libro celi et mundi ' (8 lines) ; ii. 15 ' Necessitas. . . pascuntur ■ (6 lines) ; ii. 53 ' Amplius . . . falconum ' (10 lines) ; ii. 59 ' Et si in hoc. . . inquietat se ' (18 lines) ; ii. 69 ' Dimittens falconum. . . portandus ' (3 lines). The following also appears in the Vatican text (fo. 40 v ), but not in the edition : ' REX. Nam tunc. . motu ' (i. c. 54, ' ed. Schneider, p. 60). VOL. XXXVI. — NO. CXLIII. Z
 * Rex ', ' Rex Manfredus ', or ' addidit Rex ', but the end of the