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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Contributor:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.

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

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 204:8.

Standardized Title:

Troy book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troy (Ancient city)--Romances.

Local Subjects:

Troy (Ancient city)--Romances.

Physical Description:

320 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

And newly imprinted.

Other Title:

Troy book.

Place of Publication:

[Imprinted at London] : [In Fletestrete at the signe of the Princes armes, by Thomas Marshe], An. M.D.L.V. [1555]

Notes:

".. 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.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1944. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 204:08). s1944 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed) 5580.

Related Work:

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

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

OCLC:

55181619