The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī: A Persian Treatise on FalconryB. Quaritch, 1908 - 195 pagina's |
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The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry Husām al-Dawlah Tīmūr Mirzā Volledige weergave - 1908 |
The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry Husām al-Dawlah Tīmūr Mirzā Volledige weergave - 1908 |
The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry Husām al-Dawlah Tīmūr Mirzā Volledige weergave - 1908 |
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Arabs Baghdad bālābān beak bind birds of prey blood Boke of St breast called cast CHAPTER charkh chukor colour common crane common heron costiveness cure dark disease distance eagle Egyptian vulture eyes eyess Falconry Fath Ali Shah fawn feathers feet female fist flesh flight flight-feathers flown fly your hawk gazelle give goshawk greyhounds ground hawk's head hood hubara India Indian falconers intermewed ispaghul Item juice kardan kestril kill Lammergeyer lark lice long-winged hawks lure make-hawk meat misqal morning moult Najaf needle nostrils once Panjab partridge passage saker perch peregrine Persian pigeons plucked plumage purple heron Qizil quarry Saker Falcon sand-grouse seeled shahin shikra Short-eared Owl short-winged hawks soaring soon sparrow sparrow-hawk species sport spot stomach stoop tail tail-feathers throat trained Treatment unhood variety Vide note vulture wild wing young hawk young passage
Populaire passages
Pagina 60 - A land where all things always seem'd the same! And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.
Pagina 75 - Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.
Pagina 42 - ShdMn is, however, not so much used in Persia as formerly ; indeed I have never seen it out of the royal mews, except when brought to Bushire for sale to the Arabs of the opposite coast. The falcon described by Marco Polo as found in the mountains of Pariz, near Karman, can be no other than the ShaMn.
Pagina 118 - ... more than a dozen young falcons from the eyries in Ethlib. I saw two or three at this time in every tent, tied by a foot to their perches, set up in the sand, and heard them all day querulously complaining. Their diet was small desert vermin, lizards, rats and insects, as their mewers might find ; or finding naught they maintain them with a little dough : in the nomad life they pluck for them those monstrous bluish blood-sucker ticks which cleave to the breasts of their camels.
Pagina 75 - On the morrow tyde when thou g'oest out hawking, say, ' In the name of the Lord, the birds of heaven shall be beneath thy feet.' Also if he be hurt by the heron, say, ' The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered. Hallelujah.
Pagina 75 - I shall only mention the following superstitious ceremonies: after a hawk has been ill, and is sufficiently recovered to pursue the game, the owner has this admonition given to him; " On the morrow tyde, when thou goest oute to haukyng, say, In the name of the Lord, the birds of heaven shall be beneath thy feet...
Pagina 75 - ... celebrated, as has been alleged, in honour of Balaam's ass, but of the ass which was in the stable in which our Lord was born, or of that which He rode when He entered Jerusalem upon Palm Sunday. This singular festival did not, it may be added, cause any greater disorder than that of St. Hubert, when dogs and falcons were brought into the church to receive the priest's benediction, to the sound of horn and trumpet ; but there was no idea of profanity on the part of those who did this. The festival...
Pagina 147 - ... until you arrive on the spot and again put up the cranes. She will then again stoop at her selected quarry, when again all the cranes will attack her and release the captured bird. You must all gallop as hard as you can ; neither pit, nor well, nor stream must hinder you. You must not draw rein till you are right ill the midst of the fray, when every sportsman should unhood and cast off his saker or peregrine at the quarry that is nearest to him.
Pagina 164 - ... of the juice with her meat. 1 " White pepper" is prepared by divesting the ripe berry of its skin by maceration in water, after which it is rubbed and finally bleached in the sun. It is occasionally bleached still further by means of chlorine. It is twice as expensive as black pepper, but is in little demand. — Diet. Econ. Prod., Vol. VI, Pt. 1, p. 261.
Pagina 41 - ... exasperation which possessed us on the two occasions referred to may be more easily imagined than described. FALCON KILLING SEVERAL BIRDS IN ONE FLIGHT IT is not the habit of the wild falcon to kill more birds than one at a flight ; indeed, such an occurrence may be considered to be of the greatest rarity. Nevertheless I have seen it done more than once by a wild falcon, and many times by my own trained birds — in the case of the wild falcon from having at her first stoop struck down her prey...