COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0926963dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Troy described
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:
33r
Image Sequence Number:
033r
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book two: A great river, the Xanthus, runs through the city and the water is piped in to keep the streets clean and free of disease. Priam gathers people from nearby places to inhabit the new city and makes them citizens. At night in honour of Mars there are tournaments, wrestling and chess. Lydgate notes that people differ in their opinion about the origin of the game of chess. 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:
Troy (Extinct city)--History
Subject:
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1500 - 750 BCE
Places Covered:
Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered:
Priam (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Mars (Roman deity)
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:
Dent, John
Provenance:
Perkins, Henry
Provenance:
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
Provenance:
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance:
Carent family
Provenance:
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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:
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:
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:
355
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-09
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Troy described
