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The text was presented for the first time as a scholarly collation of all the existing manuscripts, in modern English, analysed in comparison to the original French, as an assessment of literary relations, by James I. McNelis III.
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which were not relevant quarry for medieval Englishmen. Other chapters omitted included those on trapping and the conduct of hunts in France, including an early French description of a modest form of coursing hares for the pot,
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by William Twiti, edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448. is the most recent and accurate scholarly presentation of this work, by David Scott-Macnab, 2009.
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is mostly based on the earlier work, Edward added an additional five chapters which dealt with English hunting, including comprehensive coverage of hunting for
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Of its thirty-six chapters only five are original; the Duke's text is printed in italics in the 1904 edition, which is drawn from the early-15th-century
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McNelis, James I. III. "The Uncollated Manuscripts of The Master of Game: Towards a New Edition" (PhD diss., Univ. of Washington, 1996).
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The work was first published as a printed work in 1904, with multiple later editions, including a foreword by
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was first printed in 1904 in modernised English by William and Florence Baillie-Grohman, with an essay on
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and his wife Florence. It included some of the illustrations from the original French
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Several chapters from the previous work were also omitted, including sections on the
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Master of the Hart Hounds. Between 1406 and 1413 he translated and dedicated to the
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and in a prologue dedicated the book to Henry, Prince of Wales, later to become
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Edward, Duke of York (October 2009). "Foreword to the First Edition".
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It is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting.
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The Middle English text of The Art of hunting by William Twiti
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Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York,
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is a medieval hunting treatise translated into English ( see
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1327, though written in England, was in Norman French;
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Edward, Duke of York
William Adolf Baillie Grohman
Middle English
Medieval hunting
Dewey Decimal
Edward
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
manuscripts
Henry IV's
Prince of Wales
Gaston III, Count of Foix
Middle Ages
medieval hunting
Theodore Roosevelt

Gaston III, Count of Foix
Gaston Phoebus
Livre de chasse
Henry IV
Henry V
deer
hare
ibex
reindeer
Theodore Roosevelt
President of the United States
William Adolf Baillie Grohman
British Library
Bodleian Library

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