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.
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| Language: | English |
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[Imprinted at London :
In Fletestrete at the signe of the Princes armes, by Thomas Marshe],
An. M.D.L.V. [1555]
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| Edition: | And newly imprinted. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | ".. 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, pages 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([320] pages) |