Edward of Norwich

Biographie

Né à Langley (Hertfordshire) vers 1373 — Mort à Azincourt le 25 octobre 1415

Deuxième duc de York et auteur du premier traité de chasse anglais, qui est en fait la traduction du Livre de chasse de Gaston Phébus, texte auquel le traducteur ajoute cinq chapitres sur la chasse en Angleterre.

Bibliographie

1. The master of game

   Titre:	Mayster of game (prologue); The master of game; Þe book of huntyng (ms. Oxford, Digby 182)
   Date:	Vers 1406-1413
   Dédicataire:	Henri V, roi d'Angleterre et régent de France (1387-1422)
   Langue:	Anglais
   Genre:	Traité de chasse
   Forme:	Prose
   Contenu:	Traduction du Livre de chasse de Gaston Phébus.
   Incipit:	[Table des chapitres] Here bygynneth the table of the chapiters that ben conteyned in the book of huntyng the which is clepyd Mayster of the Game. The prologe     i Of the hare and of hure nature   ii– [Prologue] Cap. primum. — The prologe To the honure and reuerence of yow my ryght worshipfull and dred lord H[enry] by the grace of God eldest sone and heire unto the hie excellent and criston prynce H[enry] þe iiii by þe forsaid grace Kyng of Ingelond and of Fraunce, Prynce of Wales, Duc of Gueyne of Lancastre and of Corwale and Erle of Chestere, I yowre owyn i euery houmble wyse, am me auntred to make this litel symple book– [Texte] Cap. secundum. — Of the hare and of hure nature The hare is a common beest I-now, and þerfore md nedeþ not to telle of here makyng, for þer be fewe men that ne han seye some of hem…
   Explicit:	… And alle oþer hunters shal strake þe comon strakyng as is aboue deuysed and saide.
   Explicit (ms. Add. 16165):	… of alle lordes, ladyes, gentylmen and wymmen, affter þe custumes and maners, used in þe hye noble court of þis Realme of Engeland.

   Manuscrits
   1. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.15
   2. London, British Library, Additional, 16165, f. 115r-190v
      « Shirley MS. »
   3. London, British Library, Additional, 18652
      Ms. ayant appartenu à Lord Denbigh, Gener. Nr. 1506 (Catalogi librorum MSS. Angliae et Hiberniae, t. 2, p. 38).
   4. London, British Library, Additional, 82948, f. 2r-v
      Fragment.
   5. London, British Library, Cotton, Vespasian B. XII, 9-105
   6. London, British Library, Harley, 5086
   7. London, British Library, Harley, 6824
   8. London, British Library, Royal, 17 A LV, f. 6-124
   9. London, British Library, Royal, 17 B II
   10. London, British Library, Royal, 17 B XLI
   11. London, British Library, Royal, 17 D IV
   12. London, British Library, Royal, 17 D XII
   13. London, British Library, Royal, 18 C XVIII
   14. London, British Library, Sloane, 60
   15. London, British Library, Sloane, 3501
   16. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 101 [⇛ Description]
   17. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 163, f. 135r-178v [⇛ Description]
   18. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya, 16 [⇛ Description]
   19. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya, 19 [⇛ Description]
   20. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya, 141 [⇛ Description]
   21. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley, 546 [⇛ Description]
   22. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby, 182 [⇛ Description]
   23. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce, 335
   24. San Marino (USA), Huntington Library, EL 35 B 63 [⇛ Description]
   25. collection particulière européenne, p. 3-158, 3/4 XV: ms. mis en vente chez Christie's le 27 janvier 2006, lot 465
   Éditions anciennes
   • ∅
   Éditions modernes
   • The Master of Game by Edward, second duke of York, the oldest English book on hunting, edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, with 52 facsimile photogravure plates and monotint reproductions, London, Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., 1904, liii + 286 p. + lii pl. [HT] [IA]
     Édition de luxe au format in-folio avec reproductions monochromes de miniatures dont la plupart sont tirées du ms. BnF, fr. 616. Le texte reproduit est celui de deux mss. de la BL (Add. 16165 et Cotton Vesp. B XII) avec, en regard, une version en anglais moderne.
   Traductions modernes
   • en anglais:
     • The Master of Game by Edward, second duke of York, the oldest English book on hunting, edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, New York, Dufield and Company, 1909, xxix + 302 p. + [23] p. de pl. [GB] [HT] [IA]
       Réimpressions:

       • The Master of Game by Edward, second duke of York, the oldest English book on hunting, edited by Wm. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, London, Chatto and Windus, 1909, xxix + 302 p. + [23] p. de pl. [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
       • New York, AMS Press, 1974
       • Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
   Études
   • Binns, A. L., « A manuscript source of the Book of St. Albans », Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 33:1, 1950-1951, p. 15-24. DOI: 10.7227/bjrl.33.1.2
   • McNelis, James, « Parallel manuscript readings in the CT retraction and Edward of Norwich's Master of Game », The Chaucer Review, 36:1, 2001, p. 87-90. DOI: 10.1353/cr.2001.0022
   • Putter, Ad, « The ways and words of the hunt: notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Master of Game, Sir Tristrem, Pearl, and Saint Erkenwald », The Chaucer Review, 40, 2006, p. 354-385.

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