Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores anglico-latini
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1230
Publisher: Excudebat Iohannes Lichfield
Published: 1635
Place of publication: Oxoniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 159
Work titles: Troilus and Criseyde
Notes: Signatures: A⁴(-A4) [cross]⁴ *⁴ 2*² chi¹([=A4) B-2N⁴.

Latin and Middle English on facing pages.

The two books have separate pagination; register is continuous.

The English text is from books 1 and 2 of William Thynne's edition of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"; the Latin translation is by Sir Francis Kynaston. Kinnaston's name appears in the heading, [cross]¹. "This appears to be by far the earliest translation of any part of Chaucer into another language"--cf. Madan.

Title within ornamental border (McK. & F. 276); title-vignette.

Errors in paging, including, in the 2d count, 25 and 89-96 repeated in the numbering.

STC (2nd ed.) 5097