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John Lydgate: Portraits & Images

Lydgate, MS portrait, det. Harleian MS 4826.
John Lydgate, c1426-50
Lives of Sts Edmund & Fremund
BL MS Harley 4826

Lydgate riding a horse, det. BL MS Arundel 119
Lydgate Riding a Horse, c1426-50
The Siege of Thebes
BL MS Arundel 119 f. 1
Lydgate praying at the shrine of Edmund
Lydgate praying at the shrine of Edmund.
Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, c1434-9.
BL MS Harley 2278 f. 9.
Lydgate presenting his work to King Henry V.
Lydgate presenting his work to King Henry V.
The Siege of Troy, c1450.
U. Manchester, Rylands Library MS English 1, f. 1r.
Lydgate and another monk kneeling before St. Edmund.
Two monks (one of them Lydgate) kneeling before St. Edmund.
Lydgate's transl. of Boccaccio's Fall of Princes, c1450-60.
BL MS Harley 1766 f. 5.
Lydgate praying at the shrine of Edmund
Lydgate praying at the shrine of Edmund.
Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, c1461-75.
BL MS Yates Thompson 47 f. 4 .
Lydgate presenting his work to King Henry V
Lydgate presenting his work to King Henry V.
Lydgate's transl. of Boccaccio's Fall of Princes.
McGill University MS.
Lydgate and the Canterbury Pilgrims
John Lydgate and the Canterbury Pilgrims.
Siege of Thebes, c1516-23.
BL MS Royal 18 D II f. 148.
18th-century engraving of Lydgate by George Vertue
John Lydgate, 18th-c.
Engraving by George Vertue.
National Portrait Gallery.


Lydgate and King Henry V.
The Siege of Troy
Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 232, f.1.






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