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.
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 sequel...
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| Superior document: | Library of the written word, volume 28. The manuscript world ; volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of the written word ;
28. Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.