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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

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 / by Domenic Leo.
Author
Leo, Domenic.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description
xxxii, 401 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
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."
Series Statement
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 28. The manuscript world ; volume 5
Uniform Title
  • Library of the written word ; 28.
  • Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 5.
Subject
  • Jacques, de Longuyon, active 1290-1312
  • Brisebare, -approximately 1340
  • Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Romances > History and criticism
  • Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Romances > Illustrations
  • Pierpont Morgan Library
  • Pierpont Morgan Library. > Illustrations
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
  • Marginal illustrations
  • Manuscripts, French > New York (State) > New York
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and indexes.
Contents
The Glazier Peacock : texts, authors, and patrons -- The Glazier Peacock : artists -- The Glazier Peacock : miniatures -- The Glazier Peacock : marginalia -- The Glazier Peacock : festivities -- The Glazier Peacock : texts, images, and heresy -- The Glazier Peacock : conclusion -- Peacock cycle manuscripts : a concordance of miniatures -- Catalogue of manuscripts -- Appendix 1. Concordance of tituli -- Appendix 2. Arse-generated humor proverbial phrases -- Appendix 3. Pierart dou Tielt -- Appendix 4. Comparison table for proverbs in the marginalia -- Appendix 5. Comparison table for obscenae in the marginalia -- Bibliography -- Index of marginalia -- Color plates.
Call Number
JFE 16-4690
ISBN
  • 9789004250031
  • 9004250034
  • 9004250832
  • 9789004250833
  • 9789004250833 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013019590
OCLC
852808647
Author
Leo, Domenic.
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 / by Domenic Leo.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 28. The manuscript world ; volume 5
Library of the written word ; 28.
Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 5.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and indexes.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-4690
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