COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0927212dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Anger of Minerva
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:
155v
Image Sequence Number:
155v
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book five: the storm has been sent by Minerva who is angry with Ajax (the lesser, son of Oileus) for taking Cassandra from her temple in Troy. Many Greeks die in the storm. A false story is told about the death of Palamedes to his father King Naulus. Illustrated bas-de-page detail: Palamedes murdered in a well with stones by Diomedes and Ulysses (Odysseus); the false signal fires set on the shore by King Naulus. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'I' 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:
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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
Sub-Category:
Miniatures (paintings)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1500 - 750 BCE
People Covered:
Minerva (Roman deity)
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered:
Odysseus (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Cassandra (Legendary character)
People Covered:
Palamedes (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Diomedes (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:
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:
1580
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-09
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Anger of Minerva
