Life of Alexander the great : and the Romance of Troas

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Title: Life of Alexander the great : and the Romance of Troas
Published / Created: [1400-1499]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript volume, on paper, containing two secular vernacular romances attributed in the dedication to a single unidentified author. The first, I Nobili Fatti di Alessandro Magno, is an Italian translation of the Latin version of the life of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes. The second text is The Romance of Troas. Troas, a descendant of Hector, is the king of Thessaly; his son Troiano journeys to Britain and joins the army of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, who is leading an army of Britons, Trojans and Romans against the Greeks
Description: In Italian.
Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of "Alessandro dale Carte" on rear flyleaf.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1.
Layout: single columns of variable length.
Script: Italian cursive bookhand.
Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only).
Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Alessandro dalle Carte. Formerly owned by Sir Edward Dering. Phillipps MS 23252. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 148 leaves : 207 mm x 146 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Legends
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name): Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Pseudo-Callisthenes.
Subject (Topic): Arthurian romances
Italian prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Uther Pendragon (Legendary character)
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. > Legends
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. > Early works to 1800
Pseudo-Callisthenes
Arthurian romances > Early works to 1800
Italian prose literature > To 1700
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Uther Pendragon (Legendary character)
Troy (Extinct city) > Legends
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Della Carte, Alessandro > Ownership
Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644 > Ownership
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 > Bookplate
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Life of Alexander the Great, and the Romance of Troas. Takamiya MS 50.