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Lydgate's Fall of princes / edited by Henry Bergen.
Van Pelt Library AS32 .A5 no.262 pt.1-pt.4
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LIBRA AS32 .A5 no.262 pt.1-pt.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Series:
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 262.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 262
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : frontispieces (v. 1, 4) illustrations, facsimile ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Fall of princes.
- Daunce of Machabree.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1923-27.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Introductory note. The metre. Boccaccio's and Laurence's prefaces, etc. Books I-II.
- pt. II. Books III-V.
- pt. III. Books VI-IX. Greneacre's Envoy on Bochas. The daunce of Machabree.
- pt. IV. Bibliographical introduction: Relations of the mss. and prints. Description of the mss. The prints. Editions of Boccaccio and Laurence. Notes on Laurence and Bochas [with extracts] Notes on the English text. Index to Lydgate's text.
- Notes:
- "...A paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Laurence de Premierfait's second, amplified version in French prose of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus viorum illustrium..."--p. x.
- 400 copies of the edition were presented to the Early English text society, and issued as no. CXXI of its Extra series, 1924.
- OCLC:
- 2702055
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