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''The Book of Saint Albans'' (or ''Boke of Seynt Albans'') is the common title of a 1486 book, a compilation of matters relating to the interests of the time of a gentleman. It was the last of eight books printed by the St Albans Press in England.〔(§9. "The Book of St. Albans". XIII. The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of Eng... )〕 It is also known by titles that are more accurate, such as "''The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms''".〔Original spelling ''The Bokys of Haukyng and Huntyng; and also of coot-armuris''.〕 The printer is sometimes called the Schoolmaster Printer. This edition credits the book, or at least the part on hunting, to Juliana Berners as there is an attribution at the end of the 1486 edition reading: "Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntyng." It contains three essays, on hawking, hunting, and heraldry. It became popular, and went through many editions, quickly acquiring an additional essay on angling.〔(World Wide Words: Precision of Lexicographers )〕 The section on heraldry contains many coats-of-arms printed in six colours (including black ink and the white of the page), the first colour printing in England.〔("Book of St Albans" ), Exhibition on "Tudor Colour Printing", University of Cambridage Library, accessed 14 February, 2015〕 During the 16th century the work was very popular, and was many times reprinted. It was edited by Gervase Markham in 1595 as ''The Gentleman's Academic''. Scholarship on the sources of the Book indicates that little in it was original. It is expressly stated at the end of the ''Blasynge of Armys'' that the section was "translatyd and compylyt," and it is likely that the other treatises are translations, probably from the French. An older form of the treatise on fishing was edited in 1883 by Mr T. Satchell from a manuscript in possession of Alfred Denison. This treatise probably dates from about 1450, and formed the foundation of that section in the book of 1496. Only three perfect copies of the first edition are known to exist. A facsimile, entitled ''The Boke of St Albans'', with an introduction by William Blades, appeared in 1881. ==Juliana Berners== Juliana Berners is only documented from the mention in the 1486 edition. She is said to have been the Benedictine prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Her name was changed by Wynkyn de Worde to "Dame Julyans Bernes" in his edition. There is no such person to be found in the pedigree of the Berners family, but there is a gap in the records of the priory of Sopwell between 1430 and 1480. De Worde's edition (fol. 1496), also without a title-page, begins: "This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge and huntynge: and also of diuysynge of Cote armours. It shewyth also a good matere belongynge to horses: wyth other comendable treatyses. And ferdermore of the blasynge of armys: as hereafter it maye appere." This edition was adorned by three woodcuts, and included a ''Treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle'', not contained in the St Albans edition. Joseph Haslewood, who published a facsimile of Wynkyn de Worde's edition (London, 1811, folio) with a biographical and bibliographical notice, examined with the greatest care Berner's claims to authorship. He assigned to her little else in the ''Boke'' except part of the treatise on hawking and the section on hunting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book of Saint Albans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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