Iesus Maria. Dictys Cretensis Historia belli Troiana et Dares Priscus De Eadem Troiana [De excidio Troiae historia]

4to. ff. [74]. Signatures: a-h⁸ i¹⁰. Modern vellum. Extensively annotated in an early hand. Imprint derived from colophon, sig. i10r; additional colophon, sig. g8v, dated: kal. Februariis [1 Feb.] 1499. Ex libris of Kirby Flower-Smith. Inked drawing depicting “Anchiles Troianus” tipped in at end. Bound with L. Fenestella de Ro. Magistratibus, nitori tandem nativo restitutus, mille fluentibus ulceribus curatis, industria doctissimi Joannis Camertis. Theo. Professo. cumlocorum omnium ob commune opti. litterarum incrementum annotationibus.” 

Combined edition of two allegedly eyewitness accounts of the fall of Troy, Dictys Cretensis’s Historia belli Troiana and Dares Phrygius’s De excidio Troiae historia (see Bib# 4102592/Fr# 7 in this collection for the apparent first edition). These works are usually cited as a pair by later writers, e.g. Petrarch and Chaucer, and are demonstrably written no earlier than the fourth or fifth century AD. Both are edited by Faragonius.

See Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Leipzig [etc.], 8328; F. R. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973, D-187; British Museum, Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum, vol. v, p. 472; L. Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum. Stuttgart, 1826, 6158.

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