Detail View: Medieval Collection: Narcissus and Echo
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Image Number:
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JRL0927323dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 2
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford MS 2
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Narcissus and Echo
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Parent Work Title:
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Fall of Princes
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Falle of Pryncys
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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-16th century
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Page:
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31r
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Image Sequence Number:
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031r
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Description:
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Fall of Princes. Book one: Narcissus considered hinself too handsome to marry but his great beauty attracted a water-nymph called Echo who called out to him. Narcissus could not see anyone but whatever he said aloud she answered back to him in the same words. Eventually Echo confessed her love to him but he rejected her, telling her he would rather die than be with her. Ashamed, Echo hid herself in a cave and was never seen again only her voice was ever heard. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'A' introduces the story of King Priam and Troy. Priam was a descendant of Jupiter and ruled Troy peacefully. He had many children including the rgeat knights Hector and Troilus. Lydgate pauses here to say that he has already told this tale as well as he can in his Troy Book, which he translated. Small illuminated and coloured initials introduce the verses. The written space is 285 x 200 mm in two columns and the script is rather an ugly and unstable anglicana formata.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Troy (Extinct city)--History
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Subject:
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Mythology 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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Mythology, Greek, in 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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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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Places Covered:
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Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
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People Covered:
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Troilus (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Jupiter (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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Hector (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Priam (Greek mythology)
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Item Height:
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417 mm
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Item Width:
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292 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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Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Provenance:
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Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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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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Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 400. 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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References:
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Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Morgan, Margery M., 'A specimen of early printer's copy: Ryland English MS 2', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 33 (1950), pp. 194-6.
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Notes:
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Ostensibly the work is an adaptation of Laurent de Premierfait's 1409 translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De casibus vivorum illustrium', a collection of moralized tragedies, extending from Adam to King John of France, that were designed to illustrate Fortune's fickle nature and the downfalls brought on by sinful living and unjust government.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-08-11
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Multi Page Number:
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335
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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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2009-10
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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