Detail View: Medieval Collection: Oedipus
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Image Number:
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JRL0927296dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 2
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford MS 2
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Oedipus
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Parent Work Title:
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Fall of Princes
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Falle of Pryncys
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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-16th century
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Page:
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17v
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Image Sequence Number:
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017v
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Description:
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Fall of Princes. Book one: Jocasta was married to the King of Thebes who was called Laius. When she was pregnant she asked Apollo about the destiny of her child. Apollo told Jocasta that her child was fated to kill his father, so when he was born Laius bid that the child was put to death. However, the shepherd who was ordered to kill the child took pity on him and pierced his feet and hung him up in a tree. The boy was found by another shepherd who cared for him calling him Oedipus. Oedipus was presented to the King and Queen of Corinth who adopted him as their son. Small illuminated and coloured initials introduce the verses. The written space is 285 x 200 mm in two columns and the script is rather an ugly and unstable anglicana formata.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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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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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek--Poetry
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Subject:
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Mythology in literature
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Subject:
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English literature
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--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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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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People Covered:
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Item Height:
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417 mm
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Item Width:
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292 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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Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Provenance:
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Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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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), p. 400. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
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References:
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Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Morgan, Margery M., 'A specimen of early printer's copy: Ryland English MS 2', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 33 (1950), pp. 194-6.
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Notes:
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Ostensibly the work is an adaptation of Laurent de Premierfait's 1409 translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De casibus vivorum illustrium', a collection of moralized tragedies, extending from Adam to King John of France, that were designed to illustrate Fortune's fickle nature and the downfalls brought on by sinful living and unjust government.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-08-11
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Multi Page Number:
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200
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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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2009-10
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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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