The auncient Historie and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle of the warres
betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans, and subsequently of the fyrst
euercyon of the auncient and famouse Cytye of Troye vnder Lamedon the
king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same vnder Pryam,
wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and
present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned
Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn
Lydgate Moncke of Burye. _And newly imprinted. An._ M.D.L.V. [Colophon]
_Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Princes armes,
by Thomas Marshe. Anno. do._ M.D.L.V.
=B. L.= F^o. (11-1/8 × 7-3/4). F. 15.
Title within elaborate woodcut border of the genealogies of the
Houses of York and Lancaster (as in E. Halle's 'Union of York and
Lancaster' _q.v._). Collation: A^2B-2C^{6}2D-E^4, unpaged. 'The
pistle to the reader', signed by the editor, Robert Braham. The
signature has been printed 'Quod Robert Braham' and an ornament has
then been stamped over the 'Quod'. Translator's prologue in verse.
Books i-v. Verses to Henry V. 'Lenvoye' and 'Verba translatoris ad
librum suum' in verse. Table of contents. Lydgate's 'Troy-book' is
a verse rendering of the prose 'Historia Destructionis Troiæ'
written in Latin by Guido delle Colonne. This is in its turn based
on the French 'Roman de Troie' by Benoît de Sainte-More, the chief
sources of which are the 'De Excidio Troiæ' the reputed work of
Dares Phrygius, which may have been then extant in a fuller version
than we now possess, and the 'Ephemeris Belli Trojani' which goes
under the name of Dictys Cretensis. An earlier edition of Lydgate's
work had appeared from R. Pynson's press in 1513.
Sinker 307. BM 448.
Here begynneth the boke of Iohan Bochas / discryuing the fall of
pr[~i]ces / princesses / and other nobles: Translated in to Englysshe by
Iohn Lydgate monke of Bury / begynning at Adam and Eue / and endyng with
kyng Iohan of Fraunce / taken prisoner at Poyters by prince Edwarde.
[Woodcut.] [Colophon] _Imprinted at London in flete strete by Richarde
Pynson / printer vnto the kynges moste noble grace / & fynisshed the_
.xxi. _day of Februarye / the yere of our lorde god_ .M .CCCCC .xxvii.
=B. L.= F^o. (10-1/2 × 7-3/4). G. 2.
Collation: a^6A-X^{6}2A-2O^{6}2P^8, folios numbered. Table of
contents. Translator's prologue in verse. Nine books, with
woodcuts. Verses of the translator at the end. The work is a verse
rendering of Boccaccio's 'De Casibus Virorum Illustrium' (prose).
Pynson published an edition of the work as early as 1494; the
present is the second.
Sinker 32. BM 239.