Livre de chasse

Livre de chasse

Ex Libris of the Morgan Library manuscript
Also known as Phoebus, Febus
Date 1387-1391
Language(s) French
Author(s) Gaston III, Count of Foix
Dedicated to Philip the Bold

The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1391 by Gaston III, Count of Foix (also known as Phoebus or Fébus) and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. It became a standard text of Renaissance hunting techniques and survives in several illuminated manuscript copies.

Manuscripts

Surviving manuscrpts of the work include the following[1]

Editions

The work was printed three times in the 16th century (once around 1500 and twice around 1507), and has gone through several modern editions since 1854, most recently in Das Jagdbuch des Mittelalters. Ms. fr. 616 der Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, edited by W. Schlag and Marcel Thomas (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst 4; Graz, 1994; reprinted 2001).

References

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