COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0926943dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Jason returns to Colchis with the golden fleece
Parent Work Title:
Siege of Troy
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Sege of Troy
Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Creator Role:
Author
Display Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Date Created:
15th century [mid]
Page:
23r
Image Sequence Number:
023r
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book one: People wonder how Jason overcame the guardians of the golden ram and some say it must have been done by sorcery. Medea spends the night with Jason and agrees to return to Greece with him. Illustrated detail in margin: Jason and Medea sail away from Colchis. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'A' 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.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Medea (Greek mythology)
Subject:
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
Subject:
Jason (Greek mythology)
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Sub-Category:
Miniatures (paintings)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1500 - 750 BCE
Places Covered:
Georgia: Colchis
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered:
Jason (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Medea (Greek mythology)
Item Height:
451 mm
Item Width:
326 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Perkins, Henry
Provenance:
Dent, John
Provenance:
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
Provenance:
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
Provenance:
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance:
Carent family
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
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
References:
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.)
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
Notes:
Purchased by Lord Crawford from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-07-06
Multi Page Number:
255
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-09
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Jason returns to Colchis with the golden fleece
