Images, texts, and marginalia in a "Vows of the peacock" manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)
with a complete concordance and catalogue of peacock manuscripts
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Word Count
100,250 words, Guess
Page Count
401 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL31145395M
- ISBN-139789004250031
- OCLC Control Number852808647
- Library of Congress Control Number2013019590
Classifications
- DDC841/.1
- LCCPQ1486.J23 V6435 2013
Description
"The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin".
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Series Statement
- Library of the written word -- volume 28
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