COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0927025dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Parent Work Title:
Siege of Troy
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Sege of Troy
Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Creator Role:
Author
Display Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Date Created:
15th century [mid]
Page:
64r
Image Sequence Number:
064r
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book two: the Greeks sail for Troy and are immediately caught in a storm. The goddess Diana is responsible for the weather as she is displeased that the Greeks did not make offerings to her before their journey. They land at Aulis and Agamemnon offers his daughter Iphigenia to Diana as a sacrifice, however at the last moment Diana replaces Iphigenia with a stag which is killed in her place. The written space is 305 x 200 mm, 2 columns and 44 lines and the script is anglicana formata by two hands.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
Subject:
Trojan War
Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
Subject:
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1500 - 750 BCE
People Covered:
Agamemnon (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Diana (Roman deity)
People Covered:
Iphigenia (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Item Height:
451 mm
Item Width:
326 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Dent, John
Provenance:
Perkins, Henry
Provenance:
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
Provenance:
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance:
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
Provenance:
Carent family
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
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.)
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), pp. 338-9. 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.
Notes:
Purchased by Lord Crawford from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-07-06
Multi Page Number:
665
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-09
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
