The Master of Game
"Buck Hunting with Running Hounds" (1904 edition) | |
| Author | Edward, Duke of York |
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| Original title | The Mayster of Game |
| Translator | William Adolf Baillie Grohman and Florence Baillie-Grohman |
| Language | Middle English |
| Subject | Medieval hunting |
| Genre | hunting treatise |
Publication date | 1413, 1904 |
| Publication place | England |
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The Master of Game is a medieval hunting treatise translated into English by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, between 1406 and 1413, of which 27 manuscripts survive.
York was Henry IV's Master of the Hart Hounds. Between 1406 and 1413 he translated and dedicated to the Prince of Wales the Livre de Chasse of Gaston III, Count of Foix, one of the most famous of the hunting treatises of the Middle Ages, to which he added five chapters of his own, the English version being known as The Master of Game.
It is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. The Master of Game was first printed in 1904 in modernised English by William and Florence Baillie-Grohman, with an essay on medieval hunting, and a foreword by then-American President and noted hunter Theodore Roosevelt.