Detail View: Medieval Collection: Anger of Minerva
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Image Number:
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JRL0927212dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Anger of Minerva
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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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155v
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Image Sequence Number:
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155v
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Description:
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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.
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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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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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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English literature
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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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Sub-Category:
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Miniatures (paintings)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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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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People Covered:
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Minerva (Roman deity)
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Odysseus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Cassandra (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Palamedes (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Diomedes (Greek mythology)
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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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Perkins, Henry
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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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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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Carent family
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Provenance:
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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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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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1580
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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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