The St. John's Troilus and Criseyde is a composite manuscript comprising Geoffrey Chaucer's longest complete poem, copied around 1425-1450, and Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseide, copied after 1609. Troilus tells the complicated tale of the love between the eponymous characters and recounts Troilus's death in battle. In the Testament, Henryson, writing decades later, adds to the story, focusing on the death of Chaucer's heroine. In the St. John's manuscript, seventeenth-century annotations in the margins of the Chaucer poem rely on the same printed book that served as the exemplar for the transcription of the Testament.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "St. John's Troilus and Criseyde": St. John's College, Cambridge, Manuscript L.1: A facsimile facsimile edition, published by D. S. Brewer, 1983
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