The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance translated from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria Troiana." Now first edited from the unique MS. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introd., notes, and a glossary, by Geo. A. Panton and David Donaldson.
Attributed by the editors to Huchown of the Awle ryale. "A translation, though not a close and continuous one," of Guido delle Colonne's Historia Trojana, the original of which was the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-More. Cf. Pref., p. viii, and Brit. Mus. Catalogue of romances in the Dept. of Manuscripts, p. 35, 40. Reprint of the 1869-74 ed. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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