ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni . Translated by Leo Archipresbyter (fl. mid-10th century). Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 17 March 1489. Chancery 2° (269x194mm). Collation: a 8 b-f 6 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r text, f5v colophon, f6 blank). 38 leaves. 43 lines, double column. 3- to 6-line initial spaces. Type: 1:160G, 2/3 a :91G. HC *780; GW 877; BMC I, 138 (IB. 1896); Goff A-398; Pellechet 447; Polain(B) 117; BSB H-291. [Bound with:] COLUMNA, Guido de (fl. 13th century). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], "circa" 25 May 1489. Chancery 2°. Collation: a 8 b-n 6 o 8 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r prologue, a2v text, o7r colophon, o7v tabula, o8v blank). 88 leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. 3- to 5-line initial spaces. Type: 1:160G, 2/3 a :91G. (Small piece replaced from top of title-page, very light stain on title and i2.) H *5510; GW 7231; Goff C-774; Polain(B) 4297; BSB G-436; not in BMC. Early-sixteenth-century pigskin over paper boards, blindstamped (rubbed, label removed from front pastedown, small stain on back cover). Provenance : one early marginal note and underlining on f5v of the Alexander Magnus; Gaspar Brustsius of Tübingen, inscription on rear pastedown dated 1537. While on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople around 950, Leo Archipresbyter came across a Greek manuscript of the romanticized biography of Alexander Magnus, transcribed it, and returned with his copy to Naples where he made a Latin prose version for his patron, Duke John III. It is Leo's version which has most widely influenced the subsequent transmission of the Alexander romance. Husner's Strassburg editions, of which this is the second, are an interpolated and enlarged version of Leo's translation. Here it is accompanied by the thirteenth-century Historia destructionis Troiae written by Guido de Columna, a troubadour at the court of Friedrich II and later of Edward I of England. Its chief source was the twelfth-century Roman de Troye by Benoît de Saint-Maure. The two texts were printed by Husner three times, always within weeks of each other. Not only do they share similar subject matter, but they share the same lay-out, and pairs are frequently found together as here.
ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni . Translated by Leo Archipresbyter (fl. mid-10th century). Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 17 March 1489. Chancery 2° (269x194mm). Collation: a 8 b-f 6 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r text, f5v colophon, f6 blank). 38 leaves. 43 lines, double column. 3- to 6-line initial spaces. Type: 1:160G, 2/3 a :91G. HC *780; GW 877; BMC I, 138 (IB. 1896); Goff A-398; Pellechet 447; Polain(B) 117; BSB H-291. [Bound with:] COLUMNA, Guido de (fl. 13th century). Historia destructionis Troiae . Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], "circa" 25 May 1489. Chancery 2°. Collation: a 8 b-n 6 o 8 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r prologue, a2v text, o7r colophon, o7v tabula, o8v blank). 88 leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. 3- to 5-line initial spaces. Type: 1:160G, 2/3 a :91G. (Small piece replaced from top of title-page, very light stain on title and i2.) H *5510; GW 7231; Goff C-774; Polain(B) 4297; BSB G-436; not in BMC. Early-sixteenth-century pigskin over paper boards, blindstamped (rubbed, label removed from front pastedown, small stain on back cover). Provenance : one early marginal note and underlining on f5v of the Alexander Magnus; Gaspar Brustsius of Tübingen, inscription on rear pastedown dated 1537. While on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople around 950, Leo Archipresbyter came across a Greek manuscript of the romanticized biography of Alexander Magnus, transcribed it, and returned with his copy to Naples where he made a Latin prose version for his patron, Duke John III. It is Leo's version which has most widely influenced the subsequent transmission of the Alexander romance. Husner's Strassburg editions, of which this is the second, are an interpolated and enlarged version of Leo's translation. Here it is accompanied by the thirteenth-century Historia destructionis Troiae written by Guido de Columna, a troubadour at the court of Friedrich II and later of Edward I of England. Its chief source was the twelfth-century Roman de Troye by Benoît de Saint-Maure. The two texts were printed by Husner three times, always within weeks of each other. Not only do they share similar subject matter, but they share the same lay-out, and pairs are frequently found together as here.
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