Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 262
em when young ; and the author of this hook speaks of nets of various sorts, and the pronged piece of wood in the middle of which a screech-owl or some other bird was placed in order to attract the falcons (Fig. l(i'2). Two methods were in use in those days for catching the woodcook and pheasant,… … Fig. 161. — Bird-piping. — " The Manner of Catching Birds by piping." — Fac-simile of Miniature in the Manuscript of the " Livrc du Roy Modus " (Fourteenth Century). mirror, which balanced a sort of wicker cage or coop, was adopted. The pheasant, thinking he saw his fellow, attacked him, struck…
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