Isbn: 9789004250031 - 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: 28 (4 risultati)

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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.…