The " Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy
Subtitle: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana."
By: Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.
Contributors: Huchown, 14th cent.; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent.; Panton, George A., ed.; Donaldson, David, joint ed.
Series: Early English Text Society. [Original series,; no. 39, 56]
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Subjects: Trojan War -- Early works to 1800.; Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Legends.
Notes: 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 mss., p. 35, 40.