Detail View: Medieval Collection: Hecuba plots the death of Achilles

Image Number: 
JRL0927156dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue: 
UoM online catalogue.
Image Title: 
Hecuba plots the death of Achilles
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: 
129v
Image Sequence Number: 
129v
Description: 
Siege of Troy. Book four: Priam has a rich tomb made for Troilus and holds a funeral feast. Hecuba plots with Paris to kill Achilles by luring Achilles to the temple of Apollo on the pretext of meeting Polyxena and ambushing him there. Paris and his knights hide in the temple of Apollo and Hecuba sends for Achilles. Achilles is so blinded by love that he comes immediately along with Antilochus, the son of Nestor. Illustrated bas-de-page detail: the killing of Achilles and Antilochus by Paris and his knights in the temple of Apollo. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'P' 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: 
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
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: 
Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
People Covered: 
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered: 
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Nestor (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Paris (Legendary character)
People Covered: 
Troilus (Legendary character)
People Covered: 
Hecuba (Legendary character)
People Covered: 
Polyxena (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Apollo (Greek deity)
People Covered: 
Priam (Greek mythology)
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: 
1320
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB