The master of game

Description

Title: The master of game
Creator: Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
Contributor: Gaston III Phœbus, Count of Foix, 1331-1391.
Published / Created: [ca. 1425-1475]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the treatise on hunting by Edward Plantagenet, second Duke of York
Description: In Middle English.
Presentation inscription from John Shirley to Richard Halsham follows the text.
Ownership inscription of Sir Gregory Page-Turner on f. 1.
Layout: single columns of 34 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: full illuminated border on f. 1, with small illuminated initials at chapter openings (six of these have been cut away).
Binding: nineteenth-century full blind-tooled diced russia.
Provenance: Formerly owned by John Shirley. Formerly owned by Richard Halsham. Formerly owned by Sir Gregory Page-Turner. Phillipps MS 10364. Ex libris William H. Robinson, Ltd. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 47 l. : 275 x 187 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
Subject (Topic): English literature
English prose literature
Hunting
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Hunting > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Halsham, Richard > Presentation inscription from J. Shirley
Page-Turner, Gregory, Sir, 1748-1805 > Autograph
Shirley, John, 1366?-1456 > Presentation inscription to R. Halsham
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership
William H. Robinson, Ltd > Bookplate

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Citation: Edward, of Norwich. The Master of Game (Takamiya MS 16). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.