The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy
Subtitle: an alliterative romance translated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana."
By: 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.
Contributors: Huchown, of the Awle ryale, 14th cent.; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent.; Panton, George A., ed.; Donaldson, David, ed.
Series: Early English Text Society. O.S. 39 & 56; Early English Text Society (Series).; 39 [etc.]
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Subjects: Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Trojan War -- Early works to 1800.; Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends.
Genres: Translations into English.; 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 Manuscripts, p. 35, 40.
Reprint of the 1869-74 ed.