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Medieval Collection
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Image Number:
JRL0927397dc
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Reference Number:
English MS 2
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English MS 2
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Crawford MS 2
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Image Title:
Story of Cambyses
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Story of Cambyses
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Parent Work Title:
Fall of Princes
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Fall of Princes
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Falle of Pryncys
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Falle of Pryncys
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Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Author
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Display Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Date Created:
15th-16th century
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15th-16th century
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Page:
68r
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Image Sequence Number:
068r
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Description:
Fall of Princes. Book three: red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'A' introduces the story of Cambyses. Cambyses was the son of Cyrus, he disliked that the Egyptians worshipped the god Apis and resolved to tear down all their temples devoted to the god. Cambyses dreamt that he would be succeeded by his brother Smerdis and to prevent it offered a magician called Gometes treasure to kill Smerdis. God saw the deeds of Cambyses and struck him down, but the death of Cambyses left Persia without a king on the throne in a time of war. Smerdis was dead but this was not publically known and so Gometes placed his own brother Oropastes on the throne. 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.
description
Fall of Princes. Book three: red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'A' introduces the story of Cambyses. Cambyses was the son of Cyrus, he disliked that the Egyptians worshipped the god Apis and resolved to tear down all their temples devoted to the god. Cambyses dreamt that he would be succeeded by his brother Smerdis and to prevent it offered a magician called Gometes treasure to kill Smerdis. God saw the deeds of Cambyses and struck him down, but the death of Cambyses left Persia without a king on the throne in a time of war. Smerdis was dead but this was not publically known and so Gometes placed his own brother Oropastes on the throne. 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:
enm-GB
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enm-GB
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Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
English literature
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English literature
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Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
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Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
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Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
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Illumination (image-making process)
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false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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Medium:
Ink
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Ink
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Support:
Vellum
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Vellum
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Places Covered:
Egypt
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Egypt
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People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Item Height:
417 mm
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417 mm
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Item Width:
292 mm
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292 mm
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Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
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John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
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Provenance:
Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Provenance:
Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
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Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
Provenance
false
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a>
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References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
References
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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), p. 400. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
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), p. 400. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
References
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References:
Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
references
Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
References
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Bibliographic Citation:
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.
bibliography
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.
Bibliographic Citation
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Notes:
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.
notes
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.
Notes
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-08-11
Multi Page Number:
705
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705
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Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-10
Metadata Language:
eng-GB