Images, texts, and marginalia in a "Vows of the peacock" manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)
Subtitle: with a complete concordance and catalogue of peacock manuscripts
By: by Domenic Leo
Series: Library of the written word -- volume 28; The manuscript world -- volume 5
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9789004250031; 9789004250833
Subjects: Illustrations; Romances; History and criticism; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Marginal illustrations; French Manuscripts; Pierpont Morgan Library
Description: "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, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Glazier Peacock : texts, authors, and patrons; title: The Glazier Peacock : artists; title: The Glazier Peacock : miniatures; title: The Glazier Peacock : marginalia; title: The Glazier Peacock : festivities; title: The Glazier Peacock : texts, images, and heresy; title: The Glazier Peacock : conclusion; title: Peacock cycle manuscripts : a concordance of miniatures; title: Catalogue of manuscripts; title: Appendix 1. Concordance of tituli; title: Appendix 2. Arse-generated humor proverbial phrases; title: Appendix 3. Pierart dou Tielt; title: Appendix 4. Comparison table for proverbs in the marginalia; title: Appendix 5. Comparison table for obscenae in the marginalia; title: Bibliography; title: Index of marginalia; title: Color plates.