Craft of Venery

Date:	Vers 1450
Forme:	Prose
Langue:	Anglais
Contenu:	Traduction de l'Art de venerie de William Twiti
Incipit:	[Incipit Twety: Tylle alle tho þ wyl of venery lere Y shall hem teche as Y haue lernyd of maystris that is disputyd and endyd, that is for to say maystere John Gyfford and William Twety þat were wyth Kyng Edward the Secunde.] [OF THE HARE] Now we will begynne at the hare. And wherefore at the hare raþer þen at eny oþer best? For why it is þe most merveylous beste þat is in þis lond. And wherefore? For as miche as he beriþe grese...
Explicit:	... Yf eny of þe bestes ben takyn in forest or parke out of sesonne, þe hed is forfet to hym þat owþe the chace, and þe fee is þe master forsters or parkers whether he be. Explicit [le venery de Twety and of mayster John Giffarde].

Manuscrits

Version I: Art of Hunting
1. London, British Library, Lansdowne, 285, f. 215-216, 1565-1610 (E)
2. New Haven, Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, sans cote [ms. dit "Craft of Venery ms."], f. 37r-40r (D)
Version II: Craft of Venery
1. London, British Library, Cotton, Vespasian B XII

Éditions modernes

Reliquiae antiquae. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language, éd. Thomas Wright et James Orchard Halliwell, London, Pickering, t. 1, 1841, p. 149-154.
La vénerie de Twiti. Le plus ancien traité de chasse écrit en Angleterre. La version anglaise du même traité et "Craft of venery", éd. Gunnar Tilander, Uppsala, Almqvist och Wiksell (Cynegetica, 2), 1956, 100 p.
William Twiti, The Art of Hunting, 1327, Edited by Bror Danielsson, Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell International (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Studies in English, 37; Cynegetica anglica, 1), 1977, 116 p. *

Études

Podeschi, John, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship: Riding, Hunting, Breeding and Racing, 1400-1941, London, Tate Gallery for Yale Center for British Art, 1981, p. 5-9, n^o 3. *
Description du ms. du Yale Center for British Art.

Rédaction: An Smets
Compléments: Laurent Brun
Dernière mise à jour: 9 décembre 2006