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David
Scott-Macnab.
A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century: the J.
B.
Treatise.
Society for the Study
of Mediaeval Languages and
Literature, 2003.
Medium Aevum Monographs, new series 23.
xvi,350pp.
Paperback
ISBN 090757016X.
Publisher's
recommended price £16.00/$30.00
"A
goosehauke for
a gentylman; A tersell for the same" - so asserts one version of the J.
B. Treatise, an immensely popular collection of lore and
information
on a range of topics considered essential to the learning of a
gentleman
in the later fifteenth century. The J. B. Treatise, which has
hitherto
been known principally by way of an eclectic medley of filer material
in
the printed Boke of St Albans (1486), survives in numerous
variant
forms in twenty-one, mostly unrelated, manuscripts. Its foremost
concerns
are hawking and hunting, but it differs from other contemporary
treatises
on these sports by concentrating on terminology rather than praxis.
Much
of its information is presented in the form of lists of terms,
suggesting
that it served mainly as a lexical primer rather than a manual of
practical
instruction. This study - which includes four major variant texts,
explanatory
notes, a glossary and complete collations of the "J. B." lists of
collective
nouns and carving terms - is the first comprehensive survey of all
known
versions of the J. B. Treatise, whose contents will be of interest to
English
medievalists in a range of disciplines, including history, literature
and
language studies.
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