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Item Number: 127147
Title: 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
Author: Leo, Domenic
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004250031
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 401pp., 164 b&w illus., 22 color plates. Summary: 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. (Library of the Written Word, 28. The Manuscript World, 5)
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