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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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