{"id":4600,"date":"2017-09-29T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:10:18","slug":"hunting-with-emperor-frederick-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/hunting-with-emperor-frederick-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting with the Emperor Frederick II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of a complex and unique temperament, curious and versatile, rooted in Mediaeval prejudice but also enlightened and precociously modern, <strong>Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II<\/strong> was poet, scientist and naturalist, as well as a passionate enthusiast of <strong>the art of falconry<\/strong>. The emperor dedicated a treatise to this aristocratic and unusual hunting practice, which survives to this day in various illustrated versions: the splendid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/facsimiles\/the-art-of-falconry-by-frederick-ii-facsimile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>De Arte Venandi cum Avibus<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4.jpg\" alt=\"F. 31v. Two owls, one male and one female, a tawny owl, and a white bird of prey.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">F. 31v. Two owls, one male and one female, a tawny owl, and a white bird of prey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The work is made up of two parts, the first on hunting in the true sense of the word, the second on breeding and keeping raptors; it is probably a complex review of a translation carried out by the Westernised Syrian Theodore from an <strong>Arabic original<\/strong>. Frederick II expanded and reorganized the text, adding a remarkable wealth of images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/facsimiles\/the-art-of-falconry-by-frederick-ii-facsimile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>In case you missed it: did you check out our facsimile edition of the De Arte Venandi cum Avibus?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"F. 6r. Pond with water birds hunting fish.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">F. 6r. Pond with water birds hunting fish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original manuscript, written in <strong>Latin<\/strong> and illuminated between 1245 and 1248, no longer exists. But that first example had already borne its fruit, insofar as various offshoots had been derived from it which, in whole or in part, with additions or variants, reproduced Frederick\u2019s text. Today <strong>no less than seven manuscripts of De arte Venandi survive<\/strong>, the oldest of which is the Venerando Codex of the Vatican Library (<strong>Pal lat. 1071<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"F. 10r. A boat hunting water birds.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">F. 10r. A boat hunting water birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Illuminated replicas were made, also with French translations. One of these was commissioned in the early fourteenth century by <strong>Jean II Lord of Dampierre<\/strong> and <strong>Saint-Dizier<\/strong>, in the southern Champagne region (it is interesting to note that he had followed <strong>Charles of Anjou<\/strong> into southern Italy in his campaign against <strong>Manfred of Sicily<\/strong>). This manuscript is today kept in the <strong>National Library of Paris<\/strong> (fr. 12400), although it is limited to the first two books.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-2.jpg\" alt=\"F. 149v. 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