Lydgate's Troy book. A.D. 1412-20.
By: Edited from the best manuscripts, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Henry Bergen ...
Contributors: Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent.; Bergen, Henry, 1873- ed.; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series,; 97, 103, 106, 126
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Trojan War -- Early works to 1800.; Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Legends.
Other titles: Troy book.
Notes: Parts 1-3 paged continuously.
Marginal notes by Dr. Furnivall.
Imprint varies: pt. 2-3, London, Pub. for the Early English Text Scoeity by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., ltd., and by H. Frowde, Oxford University Press; pt. 4, London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
"A very much amplified version ... of the prose Latin Historia destructionis Troiae of Guido delle Colonne (about 1287) ... in turn a condensed version of the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte More (about 1160)"--Introd. note, pt. 1, p. ix.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Introductory note. The prologue. Book I-II.; title: pt. II. Book III.; title: pt. III. Book IV-V, completing the text.; title: pt. IV. Preface. Bibliographical introduction. Notes on Guido delle colonne. Notes on Lydgate's text. Glossary. Index to Lydgate's text.