Bod-Inc: H-127
Historia Destructionis Troiae
La Destruction de Troye [French].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[C]il qui a ceste histoire commencee a tous ceulx qui celle verront salut . . .’
a1r [Table of contents.]
[b2r] La Destruction de Troye. ‘Ce liure tracte dont procederent ceulx qui edifierent Troye . . .’ Incipit: ‘[A]pres ce que Thebes fut destruicte . . .’ Sometimes ascribed to Guido de Columna. For the manuscript tradition see Marc-René Jung, La Légende de Troie en France au moyen âge. Analyse des versions françaises et bibliographie raisonnée des manuscrits, Romanica Helvetica, 114 (Basel and Tübingen, 1996), esp. 563-601.
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, c.1477]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a12 [b10 c–k8 l10].
Types: Types: 121 G, 92 G.
Leaves: 96 leaves, a12, [b1], and [l10?] blank.
Line number: Two columns of 38 lines ([b3r]).
Type area: Type area: 175 ×135 mm ([b3r]).
Remarks: Leaf a1r: ‘[ ]Il qui a ceſte hiſ= | toire commēcee | Atous ceulx qui | celle verrōt ſalut | Pour ce que pluſieurs cō= | me princes nobles bour= | gois marchans [et] autres ſe | doubtoiēt de la genologie | de ceulx par qui troye la | grant fut deſtruicte . . .'; a4r, col. 1: ‘Cy eſt la fin de ſe | preſent prologue'; col. 2: ‘Cy apres ſenſuiuent | les rubriches de ce | preſent liure Intitu= | le la deſtruction de | troyes'; [b2r]: ‘Ce liure tracte dont proce= | derent ceulx qui edifierent | Troye . . .'; l. 10: ‘[ ]Pres ce que | Thebes fut | Deſtruicte . . .'; [l8r]: ‘Commēt le roy tarquinus | ſceut les nouuelles de ſon | filz qui eſtoit mort.'; [l9r], l. 14: ‘ . . . laquelle gloire il no[us] vueil | le donner et ottroyer. Amen.' || [colophon]: ‘Explicit la deſtruction de | troye en proſe.’
References
ISTC: ih00280000
Hain: H 5521;
Goff: Goff H‑280;
Proctor: Pr 8529;
Others: Brunet, Manuel II 170; Claudin III 115; Bruno Jammes, Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques Publiques de France. Vol. VII: Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Bibliothèque Thiers (Paris, 1990), H‑3; Sheppard 6583-4.
LCN: 14720313
Copies
Copy number: H-127(1)
Wanting leaf [l10], presumably blank.
Binding: English c.1790 gold-tooled diced russia; marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves, azure silk bookmark.
Size: 284 × 201 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 201 mm.
Foliation, in Roman figures, in the upper margins of the rectos in ‘Garzonier''s hand.
Six- to seven-line initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Magister Simon V[ ]ay(?) (fifteenth century); on [l9v] early inscription in red ink: ‘Iste liber est m[agistri] Simonis V[ ]ay quicomque invæniat rædat m[agistro] Simonis(!) V[ ]ey.' Garzonier (sixteenth century); this name is found in several times in the book. Possibly James Edwards, Catalogue (1790), no. 1134: ‘La Destruction de Troye la grant, premiere edition, relié en peaux russien, 3l 3s, circa 1470; in Douce's copy of the catalogue marked with ‘Douce', the price being corrected to £2. 12. 0. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 235.
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