A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

Art all in B.M. Almirante mentions an ed. of Paris, 1484, and Brunet a French
Military. trans, by de Meigret, Paris, 1555, fol. The ist ed. has 82 woodcuts and
the 2nd, 96; said to be from da Vinci's drawings. They represent the machines
of war used by the ancients, with mediaeval modifications, and are remarkably
quaint and instru«Slive. As Promis remarks, the work is, for those times, a
prodigy of erudition, and was deservedly held in high estimation. The
materials are derived from the ancient military writers, with whose works
Valtur was well acquainted. He was a native of Rimini, and was living
from 1413 to 1483. In 1463, he presented the MS. to the Sultan Mohammed
II.—a rather singular action, considering how jealously, as a rule,
his contemporaries endeavoured to keep the secrets of the military art from
their great foe, the Turk.
Copies. B.M.
502. [Augsburg.] 1473. Colonna, Egidio.
Begin: Prologus in librum de Regimine Principum . . .
incipit feliciter. [Pars tercia. Tercii libri :] Quid est
milicia & ad quid est instituta & cj omnis bellica operatic
sub milicia continetur.
Folio. Lib. III., Pt. III., has 13 fF. in double columns.
Eds.: Rome, S. plannck^ 1482,4°; Venetiis, S. Bevilaqua, 1498, fol.;
ib., B. Fercellensi, 1502, fol.; Romae, B. Zanetti, 1607, 8°. Span, trans.:
Sevilla, M. Ungut ^ S. Polono^ I494j fol. It. trans, of 1288, published by
F. Corazzini, 1858, 8°.
Copies.
B.M.
503. Paris. 1488. Pisan, Christine de.
L'art de cheualerie selon Vegece. Begin : [fol. i re^o] Cy
apres sensuit le liure des fais d'armes et de cheualerie Leql
est diuise en quatre parties etc. Anthoine Verard.
Folio. 6 fF. ; then A-M6 and N6 in 8».
Usually attributed to Jean de Meung. [See No. i.] Another ed.: Paris,
Phelippe le Noir, 1 527, 8", entitled, like No. 504, " L'Arbre des batailles."
Copies. B.M.
504. Paris. 1493. Bonnor, Honorat, or Bonet, Honore de.
L'arbre des batailles nouuellement imprime et corrige a Paris.
ye/ian du Pr},
Folio. A-M6 in 8^