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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Pyrrhus arrives at the Greek camp

Image Number: 
JRL0927165dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 1
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 1
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Pyrrhus arrives at the Greek camp
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: 
134r
Image Sequence Number: 
134r
Description: 
Siege of Troy. Book four: Penthesilea fights like a lioness and takes Ajax prisoner. Diomedes rescues Ajax but many other Greeks are slain as Penthesilea and her Amazons drive the Greeks back. Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus) the son of Achilles, arrives in the Greek camp and the Myrmidons swear allegiance to him. 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
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: 
Diomedes (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Ajax (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Neoptolemus (Greek mythology)
People Covered: 
Penthesilea (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: 
Dent, John
Provenance: 
Perkins, Henry
Provenance: 
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
Provenance: 
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
Provenance: 
Carent family
Provenance: 
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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: 
1365
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