The life and death of Hector : One, and the first of the most puissant, valiant, and renowned monarches of the world, called the nyne worthies. Shewing his jnvincible force, together with the marvailous, and most famous acts by him atchieved and done in the great, long, and terrible siege, which the princes of Greece held about the towne of Troy, for the space of tenne yeares. And finally his vnfortunate death after hee had fought a hundred mayne battailes in open field against the Grecians: the which heerein are all at large described. Wherein there were slaine on both sides fourteene hundred, and sixe thowsand, fourscore, and sixe men. VVritten by Iohn Lidgate monke of Berry, and by him dedicated to the high and mighty prince Henrie the fift, King of England.
| Other author | Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent. |
| Other author | Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent. |
| Other author | Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | At London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, Anno. Dom. 1614. |
| Description | [12], 131, 126-318, [2] p. |
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| Variant title | Historie of the life, and death of Hector. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | A modernized verse paraphrase of the "Troy book" of John Lydgate, which was in turn ".. a very much amplified version .. of the prose Latin 'Historia destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne (about 1287) .. in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman de Troie' of Benoît de Sainte More (about 1160)"--Lydgate, J. Lydgate's Troy book. Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix. |
| General note | Misattributed to Thomas Heywood. |
| General note | The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. |
| General note | Running title reads: The historie of the life, and death of Hector. |
| General note | Identified as STC 13346a on UMI microfilm. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 5581.5. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 890:9) |
| Other title | Troy book. |
| Other title | Historia destructionis Troiae. |
| Other title | Roman de Troie. |
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