COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0927428dc
Reference Number:
English MS 2
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Haman the tyrant
Parent Work Title:
Fall of Princes
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Falle of Pryncys
Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Creator Role:
Author
Display Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Date Created:
15th-16th century
Page:
83v
Image Sequence Number:
083v
Description:
Fall of Princes. Book three: red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'T' introduces the tale of Haman. Haman of Assyria was a tyrant who persecuted those of the Jewish faith. Backed by the King Ahasuerus, he sent command that all the Jewish people of Persia must kneel to him. However, Esther the new wife of Ahasuerus was Jewish and her relative Mordecai came to see her and her wedding festivities. Whilst visiting Esther, Mordecai overhears a plot to kill King Ahasuerus and informs Esther, allowing the plot to be foiled. The would be assailants are hanged and so Mordecai became a favourite of the King and free of Haman's demand for servitude. Eventually the law of the Jews was re-established and Haman was hanged. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'A' introduces the tale of Artaxerxes and Cyrus. 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.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Item Height:
417 mm
Item Width:
292 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Provenance:
Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
References:
Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
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.
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-08-11
Multi Page Number:
860
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-10
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Haman the tyrant
