Detail View: Medieval Collection: Ulysses finally returns to Ithaca
|
Image Number:
|
JRL0927230dc
|
|
Reference Number:
|
English MS 1
|
|
Link to Catalogue:
|
|
|
Image Title:
|
Ulysses finally returns to Ithaca
|
|
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:
|
164v
|
|
Image Sequence Number:
|
164v
|
|
Description:
|
Siege of Troy. Book five: Ulyssses (Odysseus) enters Ithaca at night and has all the Greek lords who conspired against him while he was at Troy beheaded. The next day he returns to his wife Penelope and all of Ithaca rejoices. Ulysses weds the daughter of Alphenon to his son Telamon (Telemachus) and he and Penelope live peacfully till the end of their days. Next begins the tale of Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles and grandson of Peleus. The realm of Peleus had been taken from him by his wife's grandfather Atastus who also tried to kill Pyrrhus. Illustrated bas-de-page detail: Peleus and Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus kills Menalippus and Polisthenes. There is a floriated, illuminated full border and an illuminated initial 'N' 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.
|
|
Language Code:
|
enm-GB
|
|
Subject:
|
Mythology, Greek--Poetry
|
|
Subject:
|
Poetry, Medieval
|
|
Subject:
|
Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
|
|
Subject:
|
Mythology, Greek, in literature
|
|
Subject:
|
Literature, Medieval
|
|
Subject:
|
English literature
|
|
Subject:
|
English literature--Manuscripts
|
|
Category of Material:
|
Manuscripts
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Codex
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Miniatures (paintings)
|
|
Technique Used:
|
Handwriting
|
|
Technique Used:
|
Illumination (image-making process)
|
|
Medium:
|
Ink
|
|
Support:
|
Vellum
|
|
Time Period Covered:
|
1500 - 750 BCE
|
|
Places Covered:
|
Greece: Ionian Islands: Kefallinía: Ithaca
|
|
People Covered:
|
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
|
|
People Covered:
|
Neoptolemus (Greek mythology)
|
|
People Covered:
|
Peleus (Greek mythology)
|
|
People Covered:
|
Achilles (Greek mythology)
|
|
People Covered:
|
Penelope (Greek mythology)
|
|
People Covered:
|
Telemachus (Greek mythology)
|
|
People Covered:
|
Odysseus (Greek mythology)
|
|
Item Height:
|
451 mm
|
|
Item Width:
|
326 mm
|
|
Current Repository:
|
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
|
|
Provenance:
|
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
|
|
Provenance:
|
Perkins, Henry
|
|
Provenance:
|
Sykes, Mark Masterson, Sir
|
|
Provenance:
|
Dent, John
|
|
Provenance:
|
Mundy family of Markeaton Hall, Derbyshire.
|
|
Provenance:
|
Morgan, Hugh, of Monmouth in the marches of Walys
|
|
Provenance:
|
Carent family
|
|
Rights Holder - Image:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Rights holder - Work:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Access Rights:
|
|
|
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:
|
1670
|
|
Image Creation Technique:
|
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
|
2009-09
|
|
Metadata Language:
|
eng-GB
|