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Cockatoo in De arte venandi cum avibus

Extract from the manuscript De arte venandi cum avibus (The Art of Hunting with Birds), authored by Emperor Frederick II, c.1241-1244. Held by Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Ms. Pal. Lat 1071, folio 20r.

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