A translation of the De animalibus of Albertus Magnus, book 23 (on falcons and hawks), into Italian. The translator is unknown. Not illustrated.

Title: This is the treatise on nature and on the generation and on the species and on the infirmity and medicine of birds of prey. and particularly of the falcons and of the goshawks and of the sparrowhawks, according to Albert the Great in the xxiij book he determines and treats from the nature of rapacious animals translated from Latin into the vernacular. (Questo e el tractato de la natura e de la generatioe e dele specie et de le infirmitade et medicina de li uecelli rapaci. e specialmite de li falconi e de li astori e de li nisi ovo sparauieri, secondo Alberto magno nel xxiij. ibro done lui determina e tracta de la natura de li animali rapaci translatato dt latino in vulgare.)

Begins: Since many men desire to know the nature of falcons and desire that they be subtly described and declared, we will do so with great diligence, etc. (Per che molti homini desiderano di sapere le nature di falconi e desiderano che aloro stano descripte e dechiarate sultilmente, faremolo con arandissima diltgentia ec.)

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