Medieval Collection: Ajax is wounded by Paris

Image Number: JRL0927160dc
Reference Number: English MS 1
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Image Title: Ajax is wounded by Paris
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: 131v
Image Sequence Number: 131v
Description: Siege of Troy. Book four: battle rages and Ajax kills many Trojans; Paris spies Ajax and shoots him with a poisoned arrow. Realising he is mortally wounded, Ajax rides up to Paris and confronts 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: Literature, Medieval
Subject: English literature--Manuscripts
Subject: English literature
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: Paris (Legendary character)
People Covered: Ajax (Greek mythology)
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
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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: 1340
Image Creation Technique: Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 2009-09
Metadata Language: eng-GB