Marvel and artefact
Subtitle: the 'wonders of the east' in its manuscript contexts
By: By A.J. Ford
Series: Library of the written word -- Volume 45; Manuscript world -- 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004301382; 9789004301399
Subjects: The Marvelous; Early works to 1800; Textual Criticism; De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus
Description: "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." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.