Article ID: CBB000931221

Rewriting Renaissance Ornithology: Jean Baptiste Faultrier's “Traitté general des oyseaux” (1660) (2008)

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Traitté general des oyseaux was written in 1660 by Jean Baptiste Faultrier, a taxman working in Louis XIV's royal hunting lodge. The 787-page, un-illustrated manuscript was dedicated to the all-powerful Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's superintendent of the finances. Faultrier used an impressive variety of sources, from the natural history treatises of Aldrovandi and Belon, to falconry treatises, Italian bird-keeping manuals, Thevet's travel literature, and husbandry books. Faultrier's work brought together many facets of ornithology, and placed natural history, hunting and bird-keeping on the same level. Although on a par with Jonston's De avibus (1650), Faultrier's Traitté was never printed and remained unknown until 2004. Analysis of the content reveals how Faultrier worked and his aim in writing such a manuscript, which is one of the only ornithology works of seventeenth-century France. Keywords. natural history, ornithology, hunting, falconry, bird-keeping --sixteenth century, seventeenth century

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Authors & Contributors
Birkhead, T. R.
Smets, An
Balen, S. van
Deniz Martinez
Beltrán, José
Dorothy Johnston
Concepts
Natural history
Manuscripts
Ornithology
Birds
Hunting; trapping
Falconry
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
Modern
Places
France
Italy
Europe
Netherlands
Germany
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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