Detail View: Medieval Collection: Greeks described
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Image Number:
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JRL0927006dc
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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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Greeks described
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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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54v
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Image Sequence Number:
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054v
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book two: Castor and Pollux sail to try to rescue Helen from Troy but their ship is wrecked; some say that they were set as stars in the zodiac as Gemini. Lydgate repeats the description found in Dares of the Greeks and Trojans who are involved in the war between Greece and Troy. The description begins with the Greeks: first Helen, then Agamemnon, Menelaus, Achilles, Tantalus and Ajax, son of Oileus. Illustrated detail in margin: Guido delle Colonne (or Dares) and two others holding books. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'B' 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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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Trojan War
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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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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Greece
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People Covered:
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Agamemnon (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Dares, Phrygius
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People Covered:
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Tantalus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
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People Covered:
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Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Menelaus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Achilles (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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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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Perkins, Henry
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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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Dent, John
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Provenance:
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Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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Provenance:
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Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
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Provenance:
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Carent family
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Provenance:
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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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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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570
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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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