Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
February 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7369 Setpun (John) Titlesof Honor . . . third edition, with additions and amendments by the author, folio, fine portrait, old calf,25s 1672 Appropriate here as treating on the origin and ceremonies of knighthood ; rs worthy of appearance anywhere as a, fine production of English scholarship. (370 VULSON DE LA CotomBiErE (Mare de) la Science Heroique, traitant de la Noblesse, de l’origine des Armes, de leurs Blasons, etc... . avec la Genealogie de la maison de Rosmapuc en Bretagne, folio, frontispiece, 6 engraved geiealogies, and 120 plates of Hscutcheons, Costumes, Insignia, etc. green vellum, £2. 16s Paris, 1644 7370*WinzincEropa, de Ordine Hquitum 8. Georgii et Periscelidis, sm. 4to. frontispiece, hf. morocco, 5s Jence, 1683 3. The Medizval Tale of Troy. (See the Greek and Roman Stories wnder Hpics.) 7371 [Pseudo-] DARES FRIGIUS de Bello Trojano, sm. 4to. in prose, title within woodeut border, old calf, uncut, lettered Bayfii Opuscula ave 10s s.n. ? Venet. Junta, circ. 1510) With the usual attribution to Cornelius Nepos amongst the preliminary pieces. Probably far older than the poem of Joseph Iscanus. Bound up with Bayfius de Captivis, etc. 1536, Hrasmi Moriz Encomium, 1524, etc. 7372 Dictys CRETHsIg DE BELLO TROIANO, small 4to. in prose, with small woodcuts on the title which is printed in red within black woodcut border, a full-page woodcut on the back, olive morocco extra, gilt edges, £2.12s 6d Lugdunt, per Ioannem Marion, 1520 This mythical history, professedly translated from a Greek text disguised in Punic letters, was perhaps the work of the pseudo-translator himself, Septimius, in the fourth century. It formed the basis of the popular legend of Troy, in combination with the so-called Dares Phrygius, 7373 [COLONNA (Guido di) Messenese] Cronica Troyana, en que se cdtiene la total y lamentable destruycion de la nombrada Troya. (On reverse of second leaf:) Comienga la famosa Chronica y destruyci0 de Troya ... cdpuesta y copilada por el famoso pueta e hystoriador Guido de Coluiia, sm. folio, fine copy, hf. bd. £3. Medina, Francisco del Canto, 1587 Translated into Spanish by Pedro Lopez de Ayala and retouched by Pero Nufiez Delgado, who has added on the last page a little poem in five ecight- lined stanzas in which Queen Dido vindicates her chastity against the slanders of Virgil. It is entitled “Elisa Dido.” “ Vend. 5 liv. Hibbert.” The Romantic Chronicle of Troy ends with the entry of Brutus into Albion, at which point the narrations of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Arthurian Romances begin. Guido di Colonna translated his work in 1287 from the Roman de Troie written between 1175 and 1185 by Benoit de St. More, the Anglo-Norman trouvére. ; the “Gest Hystoriale” of the Destruction of Troy: an alliterative Romance, translated from Guido de Colonna’s “ Hys- toria Troiana,” edited from the unique MS. by Pinton and Donaldson, 2 vols. 8vo. 21s Harly Hnglish Text Society, 1869-74 Sir Hugh of Eglintoun is believed to have executed this old Anglo-Scottish poem about 1350-690. 7375 Ohe Woke of the Sege of Crop, ComM- PILED BY DAUN JOHN LYDGATE, MONKE OF BERY ATTE EXCITACIOUN AND ST E- 4y 7304