The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy : an alliterative romance translated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana."

Author(s)

• Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent
• Huchown, of the Awle ryale, 14th cent
• Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent.
• Panton, George A.
• Donaldson, David

Bibliographic Information

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 the late rev. Geo. A. Panton and David Donaldson

（Early English Text Society original series）

Greenwood Press, 1969

Other Title

Historia destructionis Trojae

Note

"Originally published in 1869 and 1874"--T.p. verso

"Early English Text Society, O.S. 39 & 56"--Spine

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

Details

• NCID: BA2756973X
• LCCN: 69019537
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: lxx, 586 p
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1119
  • DC : 874/.03
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Trojan War -- Romances
  • LCSH : Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English (Middle)
  • LCSH : Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00945047