Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico-Latini.

Amorum Troili et Creseidae libri duo priores Anglico-Latini.

Troilus and Criseyde. Book 1-2

Oxoniae : Excudebat Iohannes Lichfield, anno Domini 1635.

[26], 105, [8], 24, 24-96, 89-159, [1] p. ; (4to)

In verse.

A translation by Sir Francis Kinnaston of books 1-2 of "Troilus and Criseyde" by Geoffrey Chaucer; Kinnaston's name appears in the heading, 1r.

Latin and Middle English on facing pages.

The English text is from William Thynne's edition of the Works.

Signatures: A⁴(-A4) [cross]⁴ *⁴ 2*² chi1([=A4) B-2N⁴.

The two books have separate pagination; register is continuous.

P. 24 (second occurrence in second count) misnumbered 21.

Wiggins, Alison. "What Did Renaissance Readers Write in their Printed Copies of Chaucer?" The Library 9:1 (2008): 3-36. doi: 10.1093/library/9.1.003.

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 5097
Madan, F. Oxford books, I, 183
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107787

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde. Book 1-2. Latin.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde. Book 1-2. English (Middle English)

Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

STC 5097 copy 1

HH52/17. Plain calf binding, vellum guards. Provenance: inscriptions on front free endpaper of Richard Moreton (and on front guard) and Samuell Wood; and on verso of t.p. of Anna Moreton; Harmsworth copy

STC 5097 copy 2

cs1320. T.p. mutilated, affecting imprint, restored in pen facsimile. According to a manuscript note, formerly bound with Francis Harding's Pietas pontifica ... 1606 and John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ... 1681. Provenance: Edward Kinaston copy (inscription on t.p.)

STC 5097 copy 3

cs163. Made-up copy; t.p. mounted. Provenance: signatures of Thomas Steward and Mary Steward on t.p.; Henry F. Sewall copy