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This compilation assembles practical treatises aimed at readers interested in field pursuits and armorial practice. It is organized into separate tractates that give procedural guidance on falconry and hunting, and a section on heraldry and coat-armour; later printings appended a manual on fishing. The text mixes technical vocabulary, rules of etiquette, and hands-on instruction, preserving distinctive period orthography and marginalia; parts are anonymous while one hunting tract bears a colophon attributing its compilation to Dame Juliana Berners.

The Boke of Saint Albans

The
Boke of Saint Albans

BY
DAME JULIANA BERNERS
CONTAINING
TREATISES ON HAWKING, HUNTING, AND COTE ARMOUR:
PRINTED AT SAINT ALBANS BY THE SCHOOLMASTER-PRINTER IN 1486
REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE
With an Introduction by
WILLIAM BLADES
AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE AND TYPOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAXTON”
LONDON
ELLIOT STOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
“Manhood I am, therefore I me delyght
To hunt and hawke, to nourish up and fede
The greyhounde to the course, the hawke to th’ flight,
And to bestryde a good and lusty stede.”
From Sir Thomas More’s Poems.