The hystorye, sege and dystruccyon of Troye

Abstract

".. 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)"--Lydgate, J. Lydgate's Troy book. Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix. In verse. Colophon reads: Here endeth the Troye booke otherwyse called the Sege of Troye, translated by Iohn̄ Lydgate monke of the monastery of Bery, and emprynted the yere of oure Lorde a. M.CCCCC. [and]. xiij. by Richard Pynson, prynter vnto the kyng[es] noble grace. Signatures: [cross]² A-2C⁶ 2D⁴. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.