The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.

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The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,
1869-1874.
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Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends
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"The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/APE7380.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.

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ÞE DESTRUCTION OF TROY. [INDEX OF BOOKS AND SUBJECTS.]

[In the MS., as has been stated in pp. liii-iv, Books XXXII-VI are disarranged, and the Index follows the disorder: in the Text they are properly arranged, and the Index is altered accordingly.]

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The Prologe of this Boke [1]
The first boke: how Kyng Pelleus exit Iason to get the goldyn flese [5]
The ijd boke: how the grekes toke lond vpon troy. Cawse of the first debate [12*]
The iijd boke: how Medea enformyt Iason to get the flese of gold [24]
The iiijth boke: of the distruccon of the first Troy by Ercules & Iason [35]
The vth boke: of the foundyng of new Troy, & of the qwerell of Kyng Priam for his fader deth [51]
The sext boke: how Kyng Priam toke counsell to wer on the grekes [68]
the vijth boke: how Paris went into grese for Elan [90]
The viijth boke: of the counsell of the grekes for recoueryng of Elan [115]
The ixth boke: of the nowmber of shippes, & the Nauy of the grekes [131]
The xth boke: how the grekes sent vnto delphon to haue onswar of a god of þere Iornay [135]
The xjth boke: how the grekes saylet fro Atthens to Troy [148]
The xijth boke: how the grekis sent two kynges in message to Kyng Priam for restitucon of þere harme [156]
The xiijth boke: how the grekes sent Achilles and Thelæfon for vitaill for the oste into Messan [168]
The xiiijth boke: how the grekes sailet fro tenedon to be-sege of the Cité of troy, & of the counsell of Dyamed to stir the Cité, & the deth of Prothesselon by Ector slayn, & of the strong fight at the Ariuall [181]
The xvth boke: of the ordinaunce of the troiens to the secund batell, & of the deth of Patraclus by Ector slayn, & other thinges vt pȝ [197]

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The xvjth boke: of a trew takyn two monythes, & of the iijd batell [230]
The xvijth boke: of the counsell of the grekes for the deth of Ector, & the iiijth batell [238]
The xviijth boke: of the fyuet batell in the feld [245]
The xixth boke: of the sext batell [254]
The xxth boke: of the vijth batell & skyrmychis lastyng xxx dayes betwene the towne & the tenttes [266]
The xxjth boke: of the viij batell, and of the drem of Ector wyf [274]
The xxij boke: of the Elleuynt batell of the Cité [292]
The xxiij boke: of the xij and the xiijth batell [306]
The xxiiij boke: of the xiiij and the xvth batell of the Cité [314]
The xxv boke: of the sextene, seyuentene, the eghtene, and the xix batell [322]
The xxvj boke: of the xx batell of the Cité [331]
The xxvij boke: of the xxj batell of the Cité of Troy [352]
The xxviij boke: off the councell of Eneas & Antenor of treson of the Cité [364]
The xxix boke: off the takyng of the toune & the deth of Kyng Priam [386]
The xxx boke: of the stryfe of Thelamon & Vlyxes, & of the deth of Thelamon, with the exile of Eneas & Antenor [397]
The xxxj boke: of the passage of the grekes fro Troy [407]
The xxxij boke: of the lesyng that was made to Kyng Nawle, & of the dethe of his son Palamydon: the dethe of Aga|mynon, & the exile of Dyamede by þere wifes [410]
The xxxiij boke: how Orest toke venionse for his fader dethe [423]
The xxxiiij boke: how hit happit Vlixes aftur the sege [429]
The xxxv boke: of Pirrus, & his passyng ffro Troy, & of his cronyng, & of his deth [438]
The xxxvj boke, & the last: of the dethe of Vlixes by his son. Whiche endis in the story wt the nome of the knight þt causet it to be made, & the nome of hym that trans|latid it out of latyn in-to englysshe. And how long the sege last, with the nowmber of grekes & troiens that were slayn: & what kynges Ector slogh: whom Paris slogh: whom Achilles slogh: whom Eneas slogh: whom Pirrus slogh: and Laudes deo [452]
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