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The master of game
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Title
The master of game.
Created
[England], [ca. 1425-1475]
Physical Description
47 l. : parchment ; 275 x 187 mm
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
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.
In Middle English.
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.
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This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the treatise on hunting by Edward Plantagenet, second Duke of York.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2013
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Edward, of Norwich. The Master of Game (Takamiya MS 16). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Edward, of Norwich. The Master of Game (Takamiya MS 16). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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