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Various pieces of falconry equipment (Hunt Museum, Ireland) — includes rings, call, bell and hood from the 17th–20th centuriesThe bird wears: A hood, which is used in the manning process (acclimatising to humans and the human world) and to keep the raptor in a calm state, both in the early part of its training and throughout its falconry career.
The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting. ISBN 1-84212-097-2; David Dalby, Lexicon of the Mediaeval German Hunt: A Lexicon of Middle High German Terms (1050–1500), Associated with the Chase, Hunting with Bows, Falconry, Trapping and Fowling, Walter de Gruyter, 1965, ISBN 9783110818604. Emma Griffin (2009).
The Book contains six texts on falconry, two of which have not survived in any other form. [1] Topics discussed in these texts include the training of hawks and falcons for hunting, and the treatment of their illnesses. [1] Illuminations, produced in a workshop in Suffolk, accompany the text. [1]
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds.
The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are a group of four medieval tapestries, probably woven in Arras, Artois, France, between about 1430 and 1450. [1] The tapestries are known as Boar and Bear Hunt, Falconry, Swan and Otter Hunt, and Deer Hunt .
Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throughout the Eurasian Steppe, practiced by ancient Khitan and Turkic peoples. Today it is practiced by Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz in contemporary Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan , as well as diasporas in Bayan-Ölgii , Mongolia , and Xinjiang , China .
The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, also known as Fébus or Phoebus, and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. [1] Fébus was one of the greatest huntsmen of his day and his treatise became the standard text on medieval hunting techniques .
The Master of Game is a medieval hunting treatise translated into English ( see Edward’s bio for more info) by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, between 1406 and 1413, of which 27 manuscripts survive. York was Henry IV's Master of the Hart Hounds.