Abstract
The paper analyses the influence of Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae (HT) on one of the two extant Catalonian translations of Histoire ancienne jusqu’a Cesar (HAC), as it appears in manuscript 352 of Biblioteca de Catalunya. The analysis focuses mainly on the episodes related to the adventures of Jason, the Argonaut, in the Quest for the Golden Fleece, narrated in fragments inserted in that Catalonian translation of HAC, which are directly derived from delle Colonne’s work. The analysis makes it possible to ascertain that the Catalonian translator/compiler of this version of HAC used the Latin text of HT rather than Jaume Conesa’s Catalonian translation despite the fact that he combined it with some details from the Catalonian translation of Seneca’s Medea, a work also included in this Catalonian version of the compendium history. The narrative, based on the Latin text of HT, which is an innovation with regard to HAC, was therefore structured in a curious way by including elements taken...
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