Neuware - The 'Vows of the Peacock' was composed in 1312 in France. One of the extant manuscripts stands out for its beautiful miniatures and scurrilous marginalia (PML, MS G24). It includes a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts.

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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
Publisher: Brill Aug 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9004250034
ISBN 13: 9789004250031
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 241 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
Weight: 839 grams

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The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Li�ge - 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.

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Domenic Leo, Ph.D. (2005) in Art History, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, is currently Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University,
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He is involved in multiple publications exploring illuminated manuscripts of French poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut's poetry and music.

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