Text in Spanish.

This is a Facsimile reproduction of "Art of Falconry by Frederick II" (thirteenth century)

The conserved one in the Vatican Apostolic Library, ms. Pale. lat. 1071, dated in second half from century XIII, written to two columns throughout 111 parchment folios of great size (360 xs 250 mm), most famous and are known all the testimonies of the federiciana work because of its most beautiful illustrations. In their margins are 170 human figures, than 900 birds, not only of hawks and goshawks, birds used more in the hunting, but of all luck of birds (pheasants, geese, herons, cranes, hoopoes, pelicans, ducks, córvidos, avefrías, curlews, great bustards, little bustards, etc.), twelve horses, other 36 variable animal (red deers, dogs, lizards, frogs, rodents, hares, a sheep), fish in the sea and lagoons and rivers, trees, rocky, constructions, a candle boat, a boat, besides numerous perches, banks, pointed hoods, pihuelas, markets, luvas, necessary ring, screws, malleolus and other utensils for the practice of the falconry.All the miniatures including in the codex act as illustrative and informative that complement the text next to which usually they appear.This manuscript, that disappeared after the defeat of king Manfredo in the battle of Benevento in 1266, reappeared in France into the hands of the nobleman Juan II of Dampierre and Saint-Dizier. At the end of century we found it XVI into the hands of the German doctor Joachim Camerarius, who maintained one nourished correspondence with Marcus Welser, that he published in Vienna, in 1596, the first edition of the text based on the manuscript of Manfredo. In the first quarter of century XVII, one is between the bottoms of the electing princes of the Palatinado. After the destruction of the Heidelberg city during the War of the Thirty Years, Maximiliano I of Bavaria gave to the Pope Gregorio XV the most famous manuscript of the one Of art venandi cum avibus and since then it keeps between the shelves of the Vatican Apostolic Library.The volume of commentaries that will accompany to the facsimile of the manuscript by the Vatican one, realised by Jose Manuel Fradejas Wheel, Spanish specialistic maximum in medieval and Renaissance books of falconry, includes a detailed biography of Federico II of Hohenstaufen, a meticulous history of Literature falconer in Latin language that preceded to the great work of Federico II, as well as a detailed analysis of the work, its content, of its risky transmission, commentary of the miniatures. It includes, also, the first translation to the Spanish realised directly from the Latin of the one Of art venandi cum avibus, based on the best edition of the text, the published one by Carl Arnold Willemsen in 1942 and that today is one of looked for books of falconry more, since the edition was practically destruída during World War II. The translation is of the plaintext of the version of six books, along with the additions of king Manfredo, and has been realised by the Dr. Dark Zacarías Hernandez ( 2004) has reviewed and it and written down Jose Manuel Fradejas meticulously Wheel._ Translation of the official website homepage.