Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 752

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Harvard University Library
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Houghton Library, Harvard University
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  • MS Eng 752
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Date
  • 14uu
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Colonne, Guido delle, (active 13th century). Historia destructionis Troiae
  • Benoît, de Sainte-More (active 12th century). Roman de Troie
  • Troy book : manuscript, [14--]
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Description
  • Physical Description:
    1 v. (365 leaves) ; 27 cm.

    Summary:
    A conflation of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae, and Benoît de Sainte More's Roman de Troie, written in Middle English verse.

    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.

    Subjects:
    Epic poetry, English (Middle)
    Trojan War -- Romances
    Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends
    Troy (Extinct city) -- Poetry

    Form / Genre:
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
    Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.
    Poems-England-15th century.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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