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Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Teuthras of Messina

Image Number: 
JRL0927038dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 1
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
King Teuthras of Messina
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: 
70v
Image Sequence Number: 
070v
Description: 
Siege of Troy. Book two: Telephus intervenes as Achilles is about to kill King Teuthras. Teuthras had been kind to Telephus and he begs Achilles to spare his life. The King is mortally wounded and so Achilles relents and allows him to be carried back to his palace. 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: 
Troy (Extinct city)--History
Subject: 
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
Subject: 
Poetry, Medieval
Subject: 
Trojan War
Subject: 
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject: 
Literature, Medieval
Subject: 
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject: 
English literature
Subject: 
English literature--Manuscripts
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1500 - 750 BCE
Places Covered: 
Italy: Sicily: Messina
People Covered: 
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered: 
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Telephus (Greek mythology)
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: 
Perkins, Henry
Provenance: 
Dent, John
Provenance: 
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance: 
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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: 
Creative Commons License
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: 
730
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