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- The Boke of Saint Albans. Treatises on hunting, hawking, and coat-armour, traditionally ascribed to Dame Juliana Berners or Barnes. Printed at St. Albans, 1486, and ed. in facsimile by W. Blades, 1901.
- The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, usually ascribed to George Turberville. Printed in London, 1576, and reprinted in the Oxford Tudor and Stuart Library, 1908. It is almost entirely a translation of the 1573 edition of Du Fouilloux’s La Venerie (first published 1562; based on earlier French treatises).
For study of costume:
- Planché’s Cyclopædia of Costume, Vol. I. Dictionary, Vol. II. A General History of Costume in Europe, London, 1876-9. Useful illstrations.
- Enlart, C. Le Costume, forming Vol. III of his Manual d’Archéologie Française, Paris, 1916. Relates primarily to French costume.
On castle architecture:
- Thompson, A. Hamilton. Military Architecture in England during the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1912.
LANGUAGE.
- Morris, R. Preface to his second edition of Early English Alliterative Poems, E.E.T.S., 1869. Morris’s views on the dialect of the poems were sound.
- Knigge. Die Sprache des Dichters von Sir Gawain, und der sogen. Early English Alliterative Poems, Marburg, 1885. Now somewhat out of date, but still useful.
TEXT.
- Knott’s collation of Morris and Gollancz’s text, published in Modern Language Notes, XXX. 102, is important.
- Gollancz, Introduction to the Facsimile of the MS. (see above).
METRE.
- Luick, K., in Paul’s Grundriss der germanischen Philologie, 2nd edition, Vol. II, Part 2, pp. 181 ff.
DICTIONARIES.
- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, ed. Sir J. A. H. Murray, H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, C. T. Onions, Oxford, 1888-. Quoted as NED.
