The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy:
an alliterative romance translated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana."
Now first edited from the unique MS. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introd., notes, and a glossary, by Geo. A. Panton and David Donaldson.

Description

Main Author

Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.

Related Names

Donaldson, David.
Panton, George A.
Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent.
Huchown, of the Awle ryale, 14th cent.

Language(s)

English ; Latin

Published

London, Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press [1968]

Subjects

Legends > Legends / Turkey > Legends / Turkey / Troy (Extinct city)

Note

Reprint of the 1869-74 ed., as one volume.
Attributed by the editors to Huchown of the Awle ryale. "A translation, though not a close and continuous one," of Guido delle Colonne's Historia Trojana, the original of which was the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-More. Cf. Pref., p. viii, and Brit. Mus. Catalogue of romances in the Dept. of Manuscripts, p. 35, 40.

Physical Description

lxx, 586 p. 23 cm.

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