Detail View: Medieval Collection: Paris keeps the Greeks away from Troy
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Image Number:
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JRL0927159dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Paris keeps the Greeks away from Troy
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Parent Work Title:
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Siege of Troy
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Sege of Troy
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Creator:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Display Creator:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Date Created:
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15th century [mid]
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Page:
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131r
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Image Sequence Number:
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131r
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book four: Menelaus is sent for Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), the son of Achilles. Summer comes and the battle is still raging. Priam feels that his forces are weak without Hector and Troilus, but Paris and his archers keep the Greeks back. Illustrated bas-de-page detail: combat between Telamon (Ajax) and Polydamas and Philomene and another. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'T' in the text. 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.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Troy (Extinct city)--History
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Trojan War
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Sub-Category:
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Miniatures (paintings)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1500 - 750 BCE
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Places Covered:
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Turkey: Marmara: Çanakkale: Troy
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Achilles (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Paris (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Troilus (Legendary character)
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People Covered:
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Polydamas (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Menelaus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Ajax (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Neoptolemus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Priam (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Hector (Legendary character)
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Item Height:
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451 mm
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Item Width:
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326 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Dent, John
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Provenance:
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Perkins, Henry
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Provenance:
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Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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Provenance:
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Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
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Provenance:
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Carent family
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Provenance:
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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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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.)
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References:
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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
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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Notes:
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Purchased by Lord Crawford from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-07-06
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Multi Page Number:
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1335
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-09
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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