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The America n Fly Fisher Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing Briefly, the Breviary William E. Andersen Robert A. Oden Jr. Foster Bam Erik R. Oken Peter Bowden Anne Hollis Perkins Jane Cooke Leigh H. Perkins Deborah Pratt Dawson Frederick S. Polhemus E. Bruce DiDonato, MD John Redpath Ronald Gard Roger Riccardi George R. Gibson III Franklin D. Schurz Jr. Gardner Grant Jr. Robert G. Scott James Heckman, MD Nicholas F. Selch Arthur Kaemmer, MD Gary J. Sherman, DPM Karen Kaplan Warren Stern Woods King III Ronald B. Stuckey William P. Leary III Tyler S. Thompson James Lepage Richard G. Tisch Anthony J. Magardino David H. Walsh Christopher P. Mahan Andrew Ward Walter T. Matia Thomas Weber William McMaster, MD James C. Woods Bradford Mills Nancy W. Zakon David Nichols Martin Zimmerman h c o H James Hardman David B. Ledlie - r o h William Herrick Leon L. Martuch c A y Paul Schullery h t o m i T Jonathan Reilly of Maggs Bros. and editor Kathleen Achor with the Haslinger Breviary in October . Karen Kaplan Andrew Ward President Vice President M , I received an e-mail from (page ), Hoffmann places the breviary’s Richard Hoffmann, a medieval scholar fishing notes in historical context. Gary J. Sherman, DPM James C. Woods Lwho has made multiple contribu - In October, with this issue already in Vice President Secretary tions to this journal, both as author and production, I made a long overdue trip to George R. Gibson III translator. He had been asked to assess a London. Before leaving, I contacted Treasurer text in a mid-fifteenth-century codex—a Jonathan Reilly of Maggs Bros. to see if I text that turned out to include the earliest could make an appointment to see the recorded collection of fly-tying patterns breviary. He graciously agreed, and my ’ known to exist. The Haslinger Breviary, husband and I got to see the book, com - currently owned by Maggs Bros. Ltd., is a plete with a personal tour of its pages and Parker Corbin John Neukom devotional book; the fishing text is added history. It was a highlight of our stay. Bailey Hallingby Albert Nichols to pages originally left blank. With this opportunity to publish the Woods King IV David E. Nichols Jr. Hoffmann was writing a piece about fishing tract in its entirety, we have Alexander Kinsey Ben Pastor the breviary that included not only a devoted most pages of this issue to the Jason M. Scott description and history of the book, but breviary. However, as we do each year, we also a transcription and translation of the saved some space to thank those who fishing texts and fly patterns. Would we work to make the museum a success by be interested in publishing this? donating their money, resources, and Our reply lies in your hands. time. A list of our generous donors Catherine E. Comar Samantha Pitcher “The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract” begins on page . Executive Director Membership and Events Coordinator is presented here in three parts. In the At the end of January, our executive Yoshi Akiyama first, “An Austrian Manuscript Holds the director, Cathi Comar, left the museum to Deputy Director Shane Quintana Oldest Collection of Fly-Tying Patterns pursue a new opportunity. Her final col - Gallery Assistant Now Known” (page ), Hoffmann and umn, which looks back on her work here, Sarah Foster codicologist Peter Kidd describe the codex can be found on the inside back cover. It Development Associate Patricia Russell Business Manager and review its provenance, beginning was an honor and a privilege to work Peter Nardini with Leonhard Haslinger in the fifteenth with her. We wish her the best. Communications Becki Trudell century. Part II (page ) presents a tran - Coordinator Public Programs Coordinator scription of the text alongside Hoff - K A Sara Wilcox mann’s English translation. In Part III, E Director of Visual “Fly Fishing in Late Medieval Austria” Communication ’ E. M. Bakwin Robert McGraw Foster Bam and Sallie Baldwin Bradford and Pamela Mills Austin and Meg Buck David and Margaret Nichols Mark Comora The Orvis Company Jane Cooke Leigh and Anne Perkins Jon and Deborah Pratt Dawson Eric and M. C. Roberts Gardner Grant Jr. Robert and Karen Scott Tim Hixon Nicholas and Jean Selch Summerfield Johnston Richard G. Tisch Karen Kaplan Ted Turner Peter Kellogg Paul Volcker Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing Robert Kleinschmidt David and Jade Walsh George Matelich Alan and Nancy Zakon Laurie Zimmerman The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract Part I: An Austrian Manuscript Holds the Oldest Collection of Fly-Tying Patterns Now Known ......... Richard C. Hoffmann and Peter Kidd Will Andersen Bill and Francesca Leary William E. Andersen Christopher Mahan The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract Bill Ayers William and Lynn McMaster Part II: Transcription and English Translation ........ Michael Bakwin Peter Millet, MD Richard C. Hoffmann Dick Beattie Teresa and Robert Oden Jr. Peter Bowden Erik and Jennifer Oken The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract Tom Davidson Henry M. Paulson Jr. Part III: Fly Fishing in Late Medieval Austria ........ E. Bruce and Denise DiDonato Stephen and Roberta Peet Richard C. Hoffmann Chris Dorsey John Redpath David Ford William Rowley Museum Contributors ...................... George and Beth Gibson Franklin Schurz Jr. Tim Grell Warren Stern Museum News ........................... Jim Head Ronald and Joan Stuckey Contributors ............................ Paul Tudor Jones Tyler and Francis Thompson Arthur and Martha Kaemmer Andrew and Elizabeth Ward : The Haslinger Breviary codex. Photo courtesy of Maggs Woods and Wendy King III Tom Weber Bros. Ltd., London. Larry Wright The American Fly Fisher (ISSN - ) is published four times a year by the museum at P.O. Box , Manchester, Vermont . Publication dates are winter, spring, summer, and fall. Membership dues ’ include the cost of the journal ( ) and are tax deductible as provided for by law. Membership rates are listed in the back of each issue. All letters, manuscripts, photographs, and materials intended for publi - Josh Alexander Charlie Kaplan cation in the journal should be sent to the museum. The museum and journal are not responsible for Stu Apte Joan and Herb Kelleher unsolicited manuscripts, drawings, photographic material, or memorabilia. The museum cannot accept Gregg Belldock Kharlovka Company Limited responsibility for statements and interpretations that are wholly the author’s. Unsolicited manuscripts cannot be returned unless postage is provided. Contributions to The American Fly Fisher are to be con - Robert and Debbie Brucker Carmine Lisella sidered gratuitous and the property of the museum unless otherwise requested by the contributor. Dayton Carr Anne Lovett and Steve Woodsum Copyright © , The American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont . Original material Peter and Lillian Corbin Walter and Pam Matia appearing may not be reprinted without prior permission. Periodical postage paid at Manchester, Vermont ; Manchester, Vermont ; and additional offices (USPS ). The American Fly Anthony Davino Joseph R. Perella Fisher (ISSN - ) : [email protected] : www.amff.com Tom Evans Jack Pittard : Send address changes to: Jon Fisher South Holston River Lodge The American Fly Fisher Jon Gibson George Van Hook P.O. Box Philip Hansteen Charles Walton Manchester, Vermont James and Susan Heckman Pat Welsh Harry Hill Ken Wilson James Wolfensohn We welcome contributions to the American Fly Fisher. Before making a sub - mission, please review our Contrib utor’s Guidelines on our website (www.amff.com), or write to request a copy. The museum cannot accept responsibility for statements and interpretations that are wholly the author’s. Kathleen Achor Editor space for FSC info Sara Wilcox Design & Production Sarah May Clarkson Copy Editor The Haslinger Breviary Fishing Tract Part I: An Austrian Manuscript Holds the Oldest Collection of Fly -Tying Patterns Now Known by Richard C. Hoffmann and Peter Kidd Figure . The Haslinger Breviary codex. Photo courtesy of Maggs Bros. Ltd., London. of fly fish - in following generations; explicit doc - of both Tegernsee and the Treatyse by at ing has just been further deepened. trines of imitation were independently least thirty years. Creative twenty-first- TManuscripts, printed books, and articulated in the mid-fifteenth-century century tiers will likely soon construct paintings brought to light over the most English Medicina piscium of Oxford soft-hackle flies after these models more recent thirty years have exploded the Bodleian Library . Rawl. C. , by than five centuries old. The tract and its myth of the technique’s peculiar English Fernando Basurto in , and in Conrad association with identifiable individuals origins in the anonymous Treatyse of Gessner’s Latin translation from an and north-flowing tributaries of the Fysshynge wyth an Angle printed by older vernacular text, which is lost. And Danube in Upper and Lower Austria Wynkyn de Worde in the second Boke of now there is a newly surfaced tract on expand understanding of the place of fly Saint Albans of , and established the fishing written into an Austrian devo - fishing and its tactics in alpine regions of practice of fishing with feathered imita - tional book in about (Figure ). Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. tions of insects in late medieval Ger - What we will here call the Haslinger As of January , the breviary is many, England, Italy, and Spain. To the Breviary fishing tract presents no less owned by the antiquarian booksellers dozen fly patterns of the Treatyse have than twenty hitherto unknown instruc - Maggs Bros. Ltd. of London, and the fol - been added the several score traditional tions as to “how one should bind hooks” lowing discussion, transcript, and transla - ties of vederangln in the Tegernsee codex (fol. r). These combinations of specif - tion into English is published with the of circa and more from alpine lands ic feathers and silks predate the patterns permission of the owner.

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