COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0927125dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Palamedes is elected leader
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:
114r
Image Sequence Number:
114r
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book four: Palamedes is elected the new leader of the Greek army, although Achilles grumbles at the change. Priam wants to avenge the death of Hector and rides out himself into battle slaying many Greeks and unhorsing Palamedes. Illustrated detail in margin: Paris and Palamedes. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'T'. The illustration has been identified as being painted by an artist stylistically close to William Abell, an important mid-fifteenth English illuminator. 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:
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Subject:
Trojan War
Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
Subject:
English literature
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Sub-Category:
Miniatures (paintings)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1500 - 750 BCE
Places Covered:
Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered:
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Paris (Legendary character)
People Covered:
Palamedes (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Priam (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Hector (Legendary character)
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:
1165
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
Palamedes is elected leader
