Detail View: Medieval Collection: Trojan suspicion
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Image Number:
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JRL0926912dc
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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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Trojan suspicion
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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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7v
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Image Sequence Number:
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007v
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book one: The Trojans are suspicious of Jason and the other Argonauts who have landed. This suspicion is identified as the cause of Troy's ultimate destruction, as for this suspicion Fortune takes vengeance on them. The fall of Troy is not the end of the Trojans, as many go on to found other places such as Brutus who won Britain from the giants. 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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Argonauts (Greek mythology)
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Subject:
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Jason (Greek mythology)
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Subject:
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Troy (Extinct city)--History
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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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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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English 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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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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Jason (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character)
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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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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Perkins, Henry
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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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Dent, John
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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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Carent family
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Provenance:
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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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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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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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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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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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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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100
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by 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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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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