Silly me! I know the oldest manual on falconry does that count? I will have to look up the oldest manual on fencing and I am off to do that now. I know I will probably get it terribly wrong. You always give questions that are a challenge but things I really want to learn more about. The pictures of the women from the steppes are wonderful. If I were one I would want to be the one with the falcon! Although those tresses on all of them ROCK!