Detail View: Medieval Collection: Quest for the golden fleece
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Image Number:
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JRL0926939dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Quest for the golden fleece
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Parent Work Title:
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Siege of Troy
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Sege of Troy
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Creator:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Display Creator:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Date Created:
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15th century [mid]
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Page:
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21r
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Image Sequence Number:
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021r
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book one: Jason takes leave of King Oetes and sets out on his quest for the golden fleece. First Jason goes towards the bulls that guard the fleece. Back in Colchis, Medea weeps and prays for Jason. Illustrated detail in margin: Jason shearing the ram, Jason fighting with the bulls and the dragon. Also depicted are the men that spring from the teeth of the dragon fighting one another and Medea waiting for Jason, praying for his return. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and two illuminated initials in the text. The illustration has been identified as being painted by an artist stylistically close to William Abell, an important mid-fifteenth English illuminator. The written space is 305 x 200 mm, 2 columns and 44 lines and the script is anglicana formata by two hands.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Jason (Greek mythology)
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English literature
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Sub-Category:
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Miniatures (paintings)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1500 - 750 BCE
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Places Covered:
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Georgia: Colchis
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Jason (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Medea (Greek mythology)
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Item Height:
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451 mm
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Item Width:
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326 mm
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Current Repository:
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John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Perkins, Henry
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Provenance:
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Dent, John
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Provenance:
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Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
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Provenance:
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Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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Provenance:
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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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Provenance:
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Carent family
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Troy book. A.D. 1412-20 edited from the best manuscripts, with introduction, notes, and glossary.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906-35.)
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References:
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Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 338-9. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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Notes:
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Purchased by Lord Crawford from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-07-06
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Multi Page Number:
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235
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-09
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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