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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.

Book history --- Old French literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 1300-1399 --- 091 <73 NEW YORK> --- 091.31:7.04 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091 <73 NEW YORK> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW YORK --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, French --- Marginal illustrations --- Illustrations, Marginal --- Marginal scenes --- Scenes, Marginal --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- French manuscripts --- Painting, Medieval --- Alexander, --- Brisebare, --- Jacques, --- Alejandro, --- Alekjhāṇḍara, --- Aleksandar, --- Aleksander, --- Aleksandr, --- Alekʻsandre, --- Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, --- Alessandro, --- Alexander --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros --- Alexandros, --- Alexandros, Megalos, --- Alexandru, --- Alexantros, --- Aleksandŭr, --- Александър, --- Iskandar, --- Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, --- Македонски, Александър, --- Megalexandros, --- Megas Alexandros, --- Nagy Sándor, --- Sikandar, --- Iskender, --- Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος --- אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, --- אלכסנדר, --- اسكندر كبير --- اسکندر اعظم --- سکندراعظم --- Romances --- History and criticism. --- Illustrations. --- Pierpont Morgan Library. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Marginal illustrations.