ON ANGLING. 



BERNERS, BARNES, or BERNES (LADY JULIANA). 



i. 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 blaysynge of armys : as here after it may appere. 

 Small Folio. 



Juliana Berners, or Barnes, to whom the above Treatises 

 were ascribed, is supposed to have been sister to Richard, 

 Lord Berners, of Essex, and prioress of Sopwell, near St. 

 Albans. She is said to have flourished about the year 1460, 

 and is celebrated for her learning and accomplishments. 



Besides being the first printed treatise on the subject in 

 the English language, this work affords us rude represen- 

 tations of the different kinds of tackle in use, and contains 

 directions and remarks which have been copied in some 

 recent Treatises on Angling. 



On the first page wood-cut of birds, and on the reverse a 

 group of men with a hawk, underneath the title above. 



Sig. a. 5 leaves, the first blank, making 6. b. 6 leaves, 

 c. 6 leaves (Hawkynge ends on C 5, and Huntynge com- 

 mences on c. 6). 



d. 6 leaves, e. 6 leaves (Coat armour commences on e. 6). 

 f. 4 leaves, g. 4 leaves (on reverse of G. 4. Here begynnyth 

 the treatise of fysshynge wyth an Angle), h. 6 leaves. 

 i. 4 leaves. Here begynnyth the blasy nge of arms. a. 6 leaves, 

 b. 6 leaves, c. 6 leaves, d. 7 leaves. 



Here in this boke afore ben shewed the treatyses per- 

 teynynge to hawkynge and huntynge with others dyuers 

 playsaunt materes belongynge unto noblesse : and also a 

 ryght noble treatise of Cot armours? as in this present boke 

 it may appere. And here we ende this laste treatyse whyche 

 specyfyeth of blasynge of armys. Emprynted at Westmestre 

 by Wynkyn the Worde the yere of thyncarnacon of our 

 lorde. M. cccc. LXXXVI. 



On the last leaf (D 8) is the device of Wynkyn de Worde, 

 and on the reverse that of Caxton. This leaf is wanting in 

 the copy in the British Museum. 



Copies upon Vellum are in the Collections of the Earl of 

 Pembroke and the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville : and upon 

 paper in the British Museum ; in the late Mr. Douce's Col- 

 lection, now in the Bodleian ; and in the late Mr. Dent's 

 Library. Probably the finest extant upon paper was Mr. 

 Hanrott's, which is now in the Collection of the Hon. 

 George John Vernon. 



