Sketch of Juliana Berners

Juliana Berners (or Barnes or Bernes) (b. 15th century), English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of Sopwell nunnery near St Albans. Her book on fishing was the first known book on fishing by a woman. Image File history File links Juliana_Berners_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13220. ... Image File history File links Juliana_Berners_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13220. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... The Flag of England The Kingdom of England was a kingdom located in Western Europe, in the southern part of the island of Great Britain. ... Rampant redirects here. ... Falconry (occasionally referred to as falconeering) is the art or sport involving raptors (birds of prey) to hunt or pursue game. ... It has been suggested that Big-game hunter be merged into this article or section. ... A priory is an ecclesistical circonscription run by a prior. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. ...

She was probably brought up at court, and when she adopted the religious life, she still retained her love of hawking, hunting and fishing, and her passion for field sports. She is the supposed author of the work generally known as the Boke of St. Albans, of which the first and rarest edition was printed in 1486 by an unknown schoolmaster at St. Albans. It has no title-page. The only clue to the authorship of the Treatise, and the only documentary evidence of her, is an attribution at the end of the original 1486 book which reads: "Explicit Dam Julyans Barnes in her boke of huntyng." Her name was changed by Wynkyn de Worde to "Dame Julyans Bernes." 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. Wynkyn de Worde, born in Alsace, was the successor to William Caxton in his English printing business, taking over and running Caxtons press after his death. ... Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer. ...

J Haslewood, who published a facsimile of that of Wynkyn de Worde (London, 1811, folio), with a biographical and bibliographical notice, examined with the greatest care the author's claims to figure as the earliest woman author in the English language. He assigned to her little else in the Boke except part of the treatise on hawking and the section on hunting. 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. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

An older form of the treatise on fishing was edited in 1883 by Mr T Satchell from a manuscript in possession of Mr A 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 Book of St. Albans, with an introduction by William Blades, appeared in 1881. William Blades (December 5, 1824 - April 27, 1890), English printer and bibliographer, was born at Clapham, London. ...

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. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (1568? - February 1637) was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Hus-wife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615. ...

References

• A FlyFishing History
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.