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  • 23 - Practical books for the gentleman

  • from III - THE LAY READER
  • Edited by Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    09 December 1999, pp 470-494

  • Summary

    In 1486, the Schoolmaster Printer of St Albans produced the first folio edition of The book of hawking, hunting, and blasing of arms. Wynkyn de Worde reprinted this compilation of hunting, hawking, and heraldic treatises in folio in 1496, adding to it a treatise on angling. Hence, it can be reasonably assumed that such rapid reprinting of the work attests to an audience eager for access to works of practical writings. John Whittocksmead had access to the variety of texts preserved in his miscellany, and, given the nature of his activities, it is not surprising that many of the works should be technical manuals, practical books for a gentleman, in both Latin and English. Two major spiritual works in the Beinecke manuscript also resemble practical books: De spiritu Guidonis, a Latin work roughly contemporary with the Modus tenendi parliamentum, narrates a Dominican prior's interrogation of the soul of a southern French burgher.