Marvel and Artefact: The 'Wonders of the East' in Its Manuscript Contexts (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9789004301382)

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.



Author: A. J. Ford
ISBN-10: 9004301380
ISBN-13: 9789004301382
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2015
Pages: 180
Format: Leather
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.70d