COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0927145dc
Reference Number:
English MS 1
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Six months truce
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:
124r
Image Sequence Number:
124r
Description:
Siege of Troy. Book four: Agamemnon requests a six month truce which is accepted by Priam. Cressida visits the wounded Diomedes and pledges her love to him, throwing over her former love Troilus. Agamemnon visits Achilles and begs him to help 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--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
Places Covered:
Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
People Covered:
Achilles (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Troilus (Legendary character)
People Covered:
Agamemnon (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Diomedes (Greek mythology)
People Covered:
Cressida (Fictitious character) Poetry
People Covered:
Priam (Greek mythology)
Item Height:
451 mm
Item Width:
326 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Perkins, Henry
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Dent, John
Provenance:
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
Provenance:
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
Provenance:
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance:
Carent family
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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:
1265
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
Six months truce
