Detail View: Medieval Collection: Priam and Troy
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Image Number:
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JRL0927324dc
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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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Priam and Troy
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Alternative Image Title:
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Envoy
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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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31v
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Image Sequence Number:
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031v
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Description:
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Fall of Princes. Book one: Lydgate translated the story of the siege of Troy from Latin into English at the request of King Henry V whom he calls a very great man, who alas died too soon. The story tells how Paris carried off Helen, the wife of Menelaus and how Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon besieged Troy. Cassandra predicted tragedy if Paris married Helen but she was ignored, as a result Hector, Achilles and Paris all died and Cressida forsook the love of Troilus. Lydgate tells the reader to read the Troy Book to find out how the Greeks finally won and of the misfortunes of the Greeks as they journeyed home. Red rubrication and an illuminated thorn initial introduces the envoy which asks proud people to remember Priam's fate. 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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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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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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Trojan War
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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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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Achilles (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Hector (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Paris (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422
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People Covered:
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Priam (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Cressida (Fictitious character) Poetry
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People Covered:
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Agamemnon (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Menelaus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Helen of Troy (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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Troilus (Legendary character)
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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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340
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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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