Beinecke MS 101                                                    England, s. XV^^med
Edward, Duke of York, Master of Game

          ff. 2r-51v    //which mygt him most auayle. Now schal y preue þe
     how an hunter...common strakyng as is aboue deuysed and seide, etc.
     Explicit.

          W. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, eds., The Master of Game by Edward,
     Second Duke of York (London, 1904); for a modernized edition of the
     Prologue, see J. McDonald, The Origins of Angling (New York, 1963)
     Appendix A, pp. 251-58. A table of contents (s. xviii) precedes the
     text on f. i recto.

          Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + i (contemporary parchment) + 50
     (foliated 2-51) + i (contemporary parchment) + ii (paper), 268 x 180
     (190 x 126) mm. Written in 34 long lines; single vertical and double
     horizontal bounding lines, full across. Ruled in ink; prickings in all
     margins, except inner.
          I^^8 (-1,2), II-VI^^8, VII^^4. Catchwords in lower margin, verso;
     remains of leaf signatures (e.g., iij, iiij, etc.) in red, recto.
          Written by a single scribe in a careful English secretary script.
          Gold initials, 3-line, on blue and dark pink grounds with white
     highlights mark text divisions. Headings and marginal chapter
     references, in red, throughout.
          Binding: s. xviii. Brown skin, flesh side out, blind-tooled, over
     paper boards. Front cover detached.

          Written in England ca. 1460, according to K. Scott; belonged to
     John Berners (s. xv/xvi). Inscriptions on f. iii recto concerning John
     Berners are not in his own hand, but are presumably those of the person
     who had the volume bound in the 18th century and who made a copy of
     what was written on the old "cover" (a parchment wrapper?). The
     inscriptions include: "Iste liber dico, constat homini Generoso/ Si
     quis queratur, John Berners nominatur" and "Iste liber constat Johanni
     Nomine Barners/ Qui contradicit, Rusticus est, et Erit." (Another note
     on Dame Juliana Berners apparently led some later owner to have the
     binding stamped "Julian Bernes [sic] On Hunting etc. M. S. S."). On f.
     5r the signature of J. Lovell (s. xviii); a note by T. Martin
     (subsequent owner) on f. i recto states "He [J. Lovell] was the last of
     that Antient [sic] Family in Norf. and dyd at New Buckenham." From the
     collection of Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary of Palgrave,
     Suffolk; his signature inside front cover, with shelfmark "B. 2. 15".
     Inscription of the London bookseller Thomas Payne, July 19 1770 (f. i
     recto). Bookplate of Christopher Jeaffreson, Esquire, Dullingham House.
     Purchased from Bowes and Bowes of Cambridge, England, in 1940 by the
     Pierpont Morgan Library; according to an undated note in library files
     David Wagstaff (bookplate) "traded a manuscript of Ovid for it [with
     the Pierpont Morgan Library]." Presented to Yale by Mr. and Mrs. David
     Wagstaff in 1944.

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 29, no. 101.

     Barbara A. Shailor