DIMEV 507
IMEV 298.5
NIMEV 298.5
And Diomedes birds they were / Called thereafter
The Scottish Troy Fragments (A and B) — in couplets
Note: Inserted in two MSS of Lydgate’s
Troy Book,
3995.
Title(s): Troy Book; Troy fragments (Scottish)
Subjects: Troy, tales of
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 148 (SC 21722), ff. 290-300
v; 307-336
v
First Lines:…The kyng when þis consale was done
In hys hall pryvely
rytht sone…
Last Lines:…Than In his werk al þe ending
Of quhiche efter is bot
litill thing…
Note: Fragment B: lines 1-918; 1181-1562 continuing to 3118.
Editions: Horstmann, Carl.
Barbours des schottischen Nationaldichters Legendensammlung.
Heilbronn: Henninger, 1881: 218-27; 229-34.
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.5.30, ff. 11-19
First Lines:…And dyomedes byrdes þai ware
Callit thare eftre mony a
ȝhere…
Last Lines:…That þar was neuer nane hyr lyk
No neuer sall be pure ne
ryk…
Note: Fragment A: 596 lines; beginning corresponds to Troy Book I. 876;
MS also includes in Part II, ff. 28-71, extracts copied in
A.D.1612.
Attributed Title: her endis barbour and begynis þe monk (f. 19)
Editions: Horstmann, Carl.
Barbours des schottischen Nationaldichters Legendensammlung.
Heilbronn: Henninger, 1881: 218-27.
3.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.5.30, ff. 304
v-308
First Lines:…The kyng when þis counsell was done
In hys hall pryvely
ryght sone…
Last Lines:…Inne hye went to pryame þe kyng
To certefye hym of this
thyng…
Note: Fragment B: lines 1-1562.
Attributed Title: her endis the monk ande begynnis barbour (f. 304v)
Editions: Horstmann, Carl.
Barbours des schottischen Nationaldichters Legendensammlung.
Heilbronn: Henninger, 1881: 229-304.