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A.J. Ford Marvel and artefact
the 'Wonders of the East' in its manuscript contexts
This book 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...
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Engels | 178 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2016
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