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Medieval Collection
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JRL0927572dc
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Reference Number:
English MS 2
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English MS 2
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Crawford MS 2
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Image Title:
Constantine the Great
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Constantine the Great
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Parent Work Title:
Fall of Princes
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Fall of Princes
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Falle of Pryncys
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Falle of Pryncys
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Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Author
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Display Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Date Created:
15th-16th century
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Page:
155v
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Image Sequence Number:
155v
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Description:
Fall of Princes. Book eight: red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'O' introduces the tale of Constantine the Great. Lydgate makes a digression to talk about Constantine because Boccaccio says little about him. Constantine was afflicted with leprosy and was told that if he bathed in the blood of children he would be cured. Rather than undertake this horrific act he decided to bear the leprosy rather than shed innocent blood. Peter and Paul appeared to Constantine and told him that he would be cured by Pope Sylvester, who baptised Constantine and cured him of his leprosy. The ink annotation in the margin '(c)xvi' corresponds to pages in the Pyson printed edition of Fall of Princes. 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.
description
Fall of Princes. Book eight: red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'O' introduces the tale of Constantine the Great. Lydgate makes a digression to talk about Constantine because Boccaccio says little about him. Constantine was afflicted with leprosy and was told that if he bathed in the blood of children he would be cured. Rather than undertake this horrific act he decided to bear the leprosy rather than shed innocent blood. Peter and Paul appeared to Constantine and told him that he would be cured by Pope Sylvester, who baptised Constantine and cured him of his leprosy. The ink annotation in the margin '(c)xvi' corresponds to pages in the Pyson printed edition of Fall of Princes. 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:
enm-GB
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Subject:
English literature--Manuscripts
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English literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
Literature, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
Poetry, Medieval
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
English literature
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English literature
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Category of Material:
Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
Codex
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Codex
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Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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Medium:
Ink
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Support:
Vellum
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Vellum
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People Covered:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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People Covered:
Peter, the Apostle, Saint
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Peter, the Apostle, Saint
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People Covered:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
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Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
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People Covered:
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
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Paul, the Apostle, Saint
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Item Height:
417 mm
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417 mm
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Item Width:
292 mm
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292 mm
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Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749, the commissioner of customs and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Provenance:
Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
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Child, Francis, Sir, 1735-1763, of Osterley Park, Middlesex.
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Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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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), p. 400. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
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), p. 400. By kind permission of Oxford University Press
References
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References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.7.
References
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References:
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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Bergen, Henry, 'Lydgate's Fall of princes.' (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924-27.)
References
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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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:
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.
notes
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.
Notes
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-08-11
Multi Page Number:
1580
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1580
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Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-10
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
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