Royal MS 18 C XVIII

'THE BOOKE OF HUNTING, which is clepede Master of all games': the treatise by Edward, 2nd Duke of York, elsewhere called the Master of Game (cf. 17 A. LV, &c.). Wants the prologue. About 50 lines of the text of ch. iii are misplaced in ch. iv, apparently by transposition of a leaf of an archetype (Baillie-Grohman's ed., p. 20, l. 9, 'oute a[]ein'-p. 21, 1. 5, 'whan she shal', following p. 22, 1. 4, 'more whittly also', see f. 8, l. 6). Ch. xiii is 23 lines shorter than in the printed text, ending 'schall be hole'. The second part of ch. xxv has a separate heading, 'How a man shal speke', &c. Ch. xxxv and some parts of ch. xxxvi are omitted. Ends 'deuised and shortli saide. Explicit'.

Vellum ; ff. 48. 14 in. x 101/2 in. Circ. 1500. Gatherings of 8 leaves (last ¹⁰), lettered (the first a and b). Changes of hand coincide with ends of quires at f. 24 (f. 23 b is left blank) and f. 32 (on ff. 31 b-32 b the rubrics are omitted). Sec. fol. in text 'ryssith'. Coarsely illuminated initials, one (f. 1) with miniature of the author presenting the work to a king [Henry V ?]. In this border and in the initial on f. 2 b are white and red roses. Not in the old catalogues.