Marvel and artefact : the 'wonders of the east' in its manuscript contexts / By A.J. Ford.
2016
PA8310.D39 F67 2016
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Title
Marvel and artefact : the 'wonders of the east' in its manuscript contexts / By A.J. Ford.
ISBN
9789004301382 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004301399 (e-book)
9789004301399 (e-book)
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Call Number
PA8310.D39 F67 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
091
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Library of the written word ; 45.
Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 7.
Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 7.
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