Detail View: Medieval Collection: Ulysses' last dream
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Image Number:
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JRL0927237dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Ulysses' last dream
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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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168r
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Image Sequence Number:
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168r
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Description:
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Siege of Troy. Book five: the dead wife of King Menon appears at his tomb, takes away his bones and disappears. The tale then moves on to the end of Ulysses (Odysseus). At this point Lydgate complains of being tired and nearing the end of the book before going on to describe the final dream of Ulysses. A beautiful fairy woman appears to Ulysses in his dream and he tries to embrace her. Illustrated detail in margin: the dream of Ulysses; Telamonus (Telemachus) shut up in the tower and the death of Ulysses. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'L' 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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English literature--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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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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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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Illumination (image-making process)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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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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Greece: Ionian Islands: Kefallinía: Ithaca
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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
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Telemachus (Greek mythology)
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People Covered:
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Odysseus (Greek mythology)
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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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Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
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Provenance:
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Dent, John
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Provenance:
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Carent family
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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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Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
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Provenance:
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Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
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Provenance:
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Perkins, Henry
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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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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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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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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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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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1705
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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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