Detail View: Medieval Collection: Achilles and Calchas
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Image Number:
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JRL0927023dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Achilles and Calchas
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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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63r
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Image Sequence Number:
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063r
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book two: the Oracle tells the Trojan diviner Calchas not to return to Troy but to go back with Achilles to the Greeks. Achilles and Calchas return to Athens and Achilles tells the Greeks of Apollo's prediction for the fate of Troy. The Greeks hold a feast and Calchas asks to speak to the Greek lords. 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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Trojan War
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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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English literature
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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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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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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: Aegean Islands: Cyclades: Dhílos
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People Covered:
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Apollo (Greek deity)
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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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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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Perkins, Henry
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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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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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655
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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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