Troy book : manuscript, [14--]
- Title
- Troy book : manuscript, [14--]
- Creator / Contributor
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Place of Origin
- England
- Date
- 14uu
- Language
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Description
- Extent: 1 v. (365 leaves) ; 27 cm.
print - Subjects
- Abstract
- A conflation of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, and Benoît de Sainte More's Roman de Troie, written in Middle English verse.
- Genre
- Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
Poems-England-15th century.
Rules (layout features)
Catchwords.
Scribal corrections.
Romances
Legends
Poetry - Notes
- Written in an unidentified hand in a 15th-cent. English secretary script; incomplete, lacks beginning and end.
Bound in half calf, rebacked with goatskin.
In a tray case, 29 cm.
MS Eng 752. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version. - Series
- Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
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