The Master of Game is a medieval manuscript, a hunting treatise, written by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, between 1406 and 1413, of which 27 manuscripts survive. It is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting.The earlier Art de vénerie, by Twiti, huntsman of Edward II, ca 1327, though written in England, was in Norman French;The Middle English text of The Art of hunting by William Twiti: edited from an uncatalogued manuscript in a private collection, Ashton-under-Lyne ; with a parallel text of the Anglo-Norman L'Art de venerie by William Twiti, edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448. is the most recent and accurate scholarly presentation of this work, by David Scott-Macnab, 2009. 3825355195 The Master of Game was first printed in 1904 in modernised English by William and Florence Baillie-Grohman, with an essay on medieval hunting, and a foreword by then-American President and noted hunter Theodore Roosevelt.
