Dares Phrigius De excidio Troie
Subtitle: cum figuris cum privilegio
Contributors: Des Prez, Nicolas, -1523; Gaudoul, Pierre, active 1514-1534
Publisher: Venundantur Parrhisiis, a Petro Gaudoul in clauso Brunello sub signo diui Cyrici
Published: 1520
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Wood-engraving, French; Specimens; Legends; Early works to 1800; Trojan War
Other titles: Dares Phrigivs De Excidio Troie
Work titles: Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia
Notes: Colophon: Impressum Parrhisijs in officina Nicolai de Pratis Bibliographi pro Petro Gaudoul librarij ... Anno domini. M.D.XX.VII ydus augusti.

Signatures: A6, A-D4 (Cii signed Ciiii).

Title page printed in red and black; 3 illus. captioned in red; woodcut initials.

Sixth-century Latin translation (purporting in a preface to be by C. Nepos, 1st cent. B. C.) of a lost ca. 1st-century Greek text, purporting to be by the Dares mentioned in the Iliad. Cf. R. M. Frazer, the Trojan war. Bloomington, 1966, p. 3-15.

Illustrations: Full-page publisher's device (Judgment of Paris) and 9 other nearly full-page woodcuts representing characters of the Trojan War; 3 criblé initials.

Fairfax Murray, 113

Moreau, II, 2306