The life and death of Hector : one and the first of the most puissant, valiant, and renowned monarches of the world called the nyne worthies : shewing his jnvincible force, together with the marvailous and most famous acts by him atchieved and done in the great, long, and terrible siege, which the princes of Greece held about the towne of Troy for the space of tenne yeares : and finally his vnfortunate death after hee had fought a hundred mayne battailes in open field against the Grecians, the which heerein are all at large described : wherein there were sla[i]ne on both sides fourteene hundred and sixe thowsand, fourscore, and sixe men / written by John Lidgate ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Contributor:

Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641.

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.

Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century.

Purfoot, Thomas, -1639 or 1640, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.

Troy (Extinct city).

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

318, that is, 324 pages ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Historie of the life, and death of Hector

Place of Publication:

At London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, Anno Dom. 1614.

Notes:

"Misattributed to Thomas Heywood."--ESTC.

A modernized verse paraphrase of the "Troy book" of John Lydgate, which was in turn "... 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.

Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-K⁶ L⁸(L4+'L5') M-2C⁶ 2D⁴.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Many errors in paging: numbers 126-131 repeated.

Title within architectural woodcut border; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Text printed primarily in double columns.

In verse.

Identified as STC 13346a on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves [par.]1 and 2D4 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full speckled calf with gold-ruled covers; five raised, gold-stamped bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; two red morocco labels on spine with author's last name, title, place of publication and date of publication stamped in gold; gold-stamped cover-edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper; leaves I2-I5 cropped and mended at bottom margin; front cover detached.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 5581.5

ESTC S119764

Related Work:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century. Historia destructionis Troiae.

Benoît, de Sainte-More, active 12th century. Roman de Troie.

OCLC:

7511551