The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans : and subsequently of the fyrst euercyon of the auncient and famouse cytye of Troye vnder Lamedon the king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same vnder Pryam, wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn Lydgate moncke of Burye.
1555
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The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans : and subsequently of the fyrst euercyon of the auncient and famouse cytye of Troye vnder Lamedon the king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same vnder Pryam, wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn Lydgate moncke of Burye.
Uniform title
Troy book
Edition
And newly imprinted.
Created/published
[Imprinted at London] : [In Fletestrete at the signe of the Princes armes, by Thomas Marshe], An. M.D.L.V. [1555]
Description
[320] p. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century. Historia destructionis Troiae.
Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century. Roman de Troie.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century. Historia destructionis Troiae.
Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century. Roman de Troie.
Note
".. a very much amplified version .. of the prose Latin 'Historia destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne (about 1287) .. in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman de Troie' of Benoît de Sainte More (about 1160)"--Lydgate, J. Lydgate's Troy book. Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix.
In verse.
Printer's name and address from colophon.
Signatures: [A]² B-2C⁶ 2D-2E⁴.
In verse.
Printer's name and address from colophon.
Signatures: [A]² B-2C⁶ 2D-2E⁴.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 5580
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107244
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107244
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 5580 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH57/2. Wormed. Bound in thick boards, covered in Russia leather; blind-tooled on covers. Provenance: on front fly-leaf inscribed by William Maskell; inscription on S4v: "Ffrawncis Alycock"; Sotheby sale of Major E. W. Macdonald, 8 March 1926:348; collated at Quaritch, 23 March 1926; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 5580 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs292. Brown morocco binding, gold tooled, with anonymous armorial crest in gilt on front cover (motto "Palmam qui meruit ferat"); signed by F. Bedford. Manuscript numbers, in brown ink, on leaves. Last leaf in facsimile. Provenance: arms on cover feature greyhounds and may belong to Griswolde [Greswolde]; purchased by Folger in 1904
Call number
STC 5580 copy 3
Folger-specific note
Fragment. One unperfected leaf; a printer's waste sheet, containing text that is on sig. E6 of other copies