Lydgate's Fall of princes
By: ed. by Henry Bergen ... Presented to the Early English Text Society by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Contributors: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? tr.; Laurent de Premierfait, d. 1418.; Bergen, Henry, 1873- ed.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series,; no. 121-124. 1924-1927 (for 1918-1919)
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1924
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; enm
Other titles: Fall of Princes.; Daunce of Machabree.
Notes: Originally issued as Publication no. 262 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
"Of the edition ... printed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 400 copies have been generously presented by the Trustees to the Early English Text Society."
"A paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes. Laurence de Premierfait's second, amplified version in French prose of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium."--v. 1, p. x.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Introductory note. The metre. Boccaccio's and Laurence's prefaces, etc. Books I-II.; title: pt. II. Books III-V.; title: pt. III. Books VI-IX. Greneacre's Envoy on Bochas. The daunce of Machabree.; title: pt. IV. Bibliographical introduction: The relations of the manuscripts and prints. Description of the manuscripts. The prints. Editions of Boccaccio and Laurence. Notes on Laurence and Bochas [with extracts] Notes on the English text. Glossary. Index to Lydgate's text.