Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y7r: Finist le recueil des histoires de troies co[n]tenant la genealogie dicelle ense[m]ble les glorieuses prouesse forces et vailla[n]ces de hercules et aussi les trois destructio[n]s et reedifications de la dicte cite faictes ta[n]t par ledit preu Hercules co[m]me par les gregois. Imprime a paris par Anthoine verard libraire demoura[n]t sur le pont nostre dame a limage saint ieha[n] leva[n]geliste ou au palais au premier pilier ou on chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Date from ISTC.
Vérard's device, leaf y7v.
Printed in Vérard's type 11*:110G.
Signatures: a-y⁸: 176 leaves, leaf y8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
97 illustrations from 26 woodcuts.
PML copy on vellum, with Vérard's device printed in blind.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.3 cm.
PML copy missing 17 leaves: b7, c5, e3, e7, f8, i1, k2, k8, m1.8, n4.5, o1, q4, s8, t5, and v7.
Hand decoration: Contemporary French illumination painted over but not following woodcut illustrations, including 3 full-page frontispieces (leaves a1+1v, l7r, and x5v) decorated with the arms and motto of Albret; gilt initials and paragraph marks on red ground and ruling lines. First frontispiece (leaf a1+1v) includes an enthroned portrait of Jean d'Albret(?) being handed a book by a kneeling figure; the throne and throne room are striped in red, white, and green; the second is a small depiction of a battle scene; the third shows the fall of Troy. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.