Recuyell of the historyes of Troye.

Author, title, and translator from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye/ composed and drawen out of dyverce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man. Raoul le ffeure. preest and chapelayn unto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [etc]. In the yere of the Incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure/ And translated and drawen out of frenshe into englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of [th]e cyte of London/ at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse Pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by grace of god. Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lokryk of Braband [etc]/ Whiche sayd translacion and werke was begonne in Brugis in the Countee of Flaundres the fyrst day of marche the yere of the Incarnacion of our said lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and eyghte/ And ended and fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the .xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleven [etc].
Caxton began translating the work on 1 March 1468 in Bruges and completed it in Cologne on 19 September 1471.
Collation: [1-14¹⁰ 15⁸; 16-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26⁶; 27-36¹⁰]: 352 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
On Caxton's prologues and epilogues, see Crotch, The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton, Early English Text Society, no. 176 (London, 1928), pp. 2-8.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.9 x 19.2 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank). Leaves [1]/2 and [36]/10 repaired.
Printed in Caxton's type 1:120B.
Printing also assigned to Caxton at Bruges. For Caxton's association with David Aubert and the location of his press at Ghent rather than Bruges, see L. Hellinga, "William Caxton, Colard Mansion, and the Printed in Type 1," Bulletin du bibliophile (2011), pp. 86-114 (ISTC).
Prologue printed in red.
Translated from the French by William Caxton.