The master of game : the oldest English book on hunting / by Edward, Second Duke of York ; edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman ; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
- Bib ID:
- 2512612
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Edward, of Norwich, 2d Duke of York, 1373?-1415
- Description:
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- London : Chatto & Windus, 1909
- 302 p.
- Notes:
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- "Written between the years 1406 and 1413 by ... Edward, second duke of York ... The greater part is ... a careful translation from ... Count Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse, or, as author and book are often called, Gaston Phoebus, which was commenced ... on May 1, 1387 ... The text, of which amodern rendering is here given, is taken from the best of the existing nineteen MSS. of the "Master of game", viz. the Cottonian MS. Vespasian B. XII in the British Museum, dating from about 1420..." I.
- Printer: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh and London.
- Title in red and black.
- Appendices (p. 201-302): - Appendix (additional notes on the text and explanation of terminology used). - List of some books consulted... - Glossary of obsolete English terms and words...
- Facsimile plates made from French ms.f.fr. 616 of Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse.
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- Also Titled:
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- Gaston Phoebus
- Livre de chasse
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1921
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1909
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