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UNINA9910816799803321 |
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Autore |
Leo Domenic |
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Titolo |
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 |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (445 p.) |
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Collana |
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Library of the written word, , 1874-4834 ; ; volume 28. The manuscript world ; ; volume 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval |
Marginal illustrations |
Manuscripts, French - New York (State) - New York |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin. |
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