Detail View: Medieval Collection: Ulysses imprisons his son
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Image Number:
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JRL0927238dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Ulysses imprisons his son
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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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168v
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Image Sequence Number:
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168v
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book five: Ulysses (Odysseus) tells the fairy he desires her. The fairy replies that his love for her must mean the death of one of them and he sees that she has a spear and a banner with her; she then tells him they will never meet again and vanishes. On waking Ulysses send for his advisers to interpet the dream and they tell him he will be speared by his kin. Ulysses imprisons his son Telamon (Telemachus) to avoid this happening. 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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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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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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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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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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Places Covered:
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Greece: Ionian Islands: Kefallinía: Ithaca
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Telemachus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Odysseus (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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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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Provenance:
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Dent, John
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Provenance:
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Carent family
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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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Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
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Provenance:
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Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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Provenance:
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Perkins, Henry
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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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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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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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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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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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1710
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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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