Wilhelm Schleg and Marcel Thomas - Das Jagdbuch des
Wilhelm Schleg and Marcel Thomas (introduction and notes) - Das Jagdbuch des Mittelalters, nr. 4 of the series Glanzlichter der Buchkunst - Graz, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, pp. (195 pp. facsimile + 81 pp. notes) - clothbound with ornamental dust jacketand casket - 20 x 15,5 cm.Condition: book as new, casket almost as newRegistered shipping.Medieval manuscripts are often equated with bibles (books of hours, psalters, antiphonaria etc.). A limited number of works, however, is more focused on secular matters. Among these are the most important the falcon book of Emperor Frederick II and this hunting book of the middle ages of the count of Foix-Béarn, Gaston Phoebus, both famous, renowned hunting aficionados.This splendid hunting book in fact has no equal: it contains 87 half- and full-page miniatures and many initials with ornamental borders in facsimile with gold print. In the miniatures the various stages and forms of the hunt for game are shown.The manuscript dates from the second half of the 14th century; the original, "Le livre de chasse," is kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Read More