Detail View: Medieval Collection: Lydgate reproaches Homer

Image Number: 
JRL0927153dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 1
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Lydgate reproaches Homer
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: 
128r
Image Sequence Number: 
128r
Description: 
Siege of Troy. Book four: Lydgate charges Achilles with cowardice for killing Troilus as he did and remonstrates with Homer for praising Achilles in his book (The Iliad). Polydamas, Paris and Eneas (Aeneas) try to recover the body of Troilus. Menon abuses Achilles for disgracing the body of Troilus and charges him, unhorsing and wounding him. 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: 
Trojan War
Subject: 
Poetry, Medieval
Subject: 
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject: 
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject: 
English literature
Subject: 
Literature, Medieval
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: 
Homer
People Covered: 
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Paris (Legendary character)
People Covered: 
Troilus (Legendary character)
People Covered: 
Polydamas (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Aeneas (Legendary character)
Item Height: 
451 mm
Item Width: 
326 mm
Current Repository: 
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance: 
Perkins, Henry
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance: 
Dent, John
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: 
Creative Commons License
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: 
1305
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB