Research Catalog

Title

Marvel and artefact : the 'wonders of the east' in its manuscript contexts / by A.J. Ford.

Author

Ford, A. J. (Priest)

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xvi, 178 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Marvel and Artefact examines the three surviving manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v; and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 614). After outlining the learned tradition of writing on monsters and marvels and the family of texts of which the Wonders of the East is part, A. J. Ford offers a forensic reading of each manuscript in which codex, text and image are studied together as a single artefact. By focussing on the materiality of manuscripts whose origin can only be hypothesized, this innovative and challenging work opens new vistas for the study and interpretation of medieval manuscripts and the cultures that produced them." --

Series Statement

Library of the Written Word

Uniform Title

Library of the written word.

Subject

• De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus > Criticism, Textual
• Marvelous, The > Early works to 1800

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-7648

ISBN

• 9789004301382 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004301380 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015032253

OCLC

911019661

Author

Ford, A. J. (Priest), author.

Title

Marvel and artefact : the 'wonders of the east' in its manuscript contexts / by A.J. Ford.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of the Written Word

Library of the written word.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7648