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1 online resource |
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Library of the written word ; v. 45 |
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Manuscript world ; 7 |
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Library of the written word ; v. 45.
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Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 7.
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Intro -- Marvel and Artefact: The 'Wonders of the East' in Its Manuscript Contexts -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: 'The Manifold Uses of Things': The Early Medieval Book as Artefact -- 2: The Wonders of the East and the Learned Tradition of Marvels -- Introduction -- A Brief Overview of the Learned Tradition -- The 'Wonders of the East' and the 'Letter of Pharasmenes to Hadrian' -- 3: The Wonders in a Manuscript of Unknown Origin: London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xv -- Introduction -- Illustration -- Homodubii -- Cynocephali and Donestre -- Other Similarities -- Conclusion -- Palaeography -- Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule: Scribe 2 -- Style-I English Vernacular Minuscule: Scribe 1 -- The Significance of Distinct Scripts in Vitellius A. xv -- Codicology -- The Consensus Quires -- The Contested Quires -- The 'Wonders' in Vitellius A. xv: 'Speaking Beyond the Light' -- 4: The Wonders and the Computus Manuscript: London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v -- Introduction -- The Origin and Audience of Tiberius B. v -- Reading Books and the Monastic Library -- The Materiality of Tiberius B. v -- Page Design in Tiberius B. v -- The 'Wonders of the East' -- The Calendar -- Tiberius B. v: The Semiotics of the 'Computus' Manuscript -- The 'Wonders of the East' as Semiotic -- The Land of Vineyards and the Ivory Couch -- The Mountain of Adamant and the Griffin -- The Phoenix and Its Nest of Cinnamon -- The Unnamed Fiery Mountain and Its Black Inhabitants -- Jamnes and Mambres -- Conclusion -- 5: The Wonders and the Schools: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 614 -- Introduction -- The Problem of Dating Bodley 614 -- Codicological Considerations -- Art-Historical Considerations -- Palaeographical Considerations -- Textual Considerations -- Summary |
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The Origin and Sources of Bodley 614 -- A Palaeographical Comparandum? -- The Calendar -- The Additions from William of Conches's 'De philosophia mundi' -- De miraculis beati Thomae apostoli -- St Urri and the Folklore of Megalithic Monuments -- Evidence Concerning 'Opusculum de ratione spere' -- Summary -- The Social Relations of the 'Twelfth-Century Renaissance' -- Bodley 614 and the Practice of the Schools -- Selection and Compilation -- Self-Aware Commentary -- An Illustrative Tradition -- The Mythographic Mode -- The Fighting Brothers -- The Dancing Women -- Conclusion -- 6 The Materiality of Marvels -- Postscript -- Appendix: Summary Descriptions of the Wonders Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors and Texts |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus -- Criticism, Textual
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De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus. fast (OCoLC)fst01937822 |
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British Library. Manuscript. Cotton Vitellius A Xv
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Marvelous, The -- Early works to 1800
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
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Marvelous, The.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004301399 |
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9004301399 |
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9789004301399 |
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