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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Disaster for the Greeks

Image Number: 
JRL0927137dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 1
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Disaster for the Greeks
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: 
120r
Image Sequence Number: 
120r
Description: 
Siege of Troy. Book four: the Greeks flee in fear when they realise that their leader Palamedes is dead and the Trojans ransack the Greek camp. Ajax manages to rally the Greeks and prevents the Trojans from setting fire to the Greek ships. The Trojans win the days battle and Prince Heber of Thrace goes to the tent of Achilles and reproaches him for not helping the Greeks. 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: 
Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
People Covered: 
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered: 
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Palamedes (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Ajax (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: 
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: 
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: 
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: 
1225
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