Omnibus Animantibus: the logic(s) of image(s) in Oxford, st. John's college MS 61

• Grant number: 16/18434-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira
• Grantee: Muriel Araujo Lima Garcia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/18864-2 - The rhetoric of images: memory and ornamentation in Oxford, st. John's college MS 61, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Produced in England during the 12th and 13th centuries, bestiaries are richly illustrated manuscripts. However, there are few studies specifically dedicated to its images. This research aims to investigate the role played by images in Oxford, St. John's College MS 61, a bestiary copied in the Benedictine priory of the Holy Trinity in York around 1210-30. This manuscript is known by its high number o illuminations and specially its original ex-libris preserved on the last folio, which is extremely rare in bestiaries.Our hypothesis is that these images do not serve a merely illustrative or mnemonic function, as they rarely reference the textual moralizations and exegeses. The objective of this work is to analyze the images and their functions in the manuscript bearing in mind the pecularities of the figurative production and its fundamental differences to the text(s). (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GARCIA, Muriel Araujo Lima. After Paradise: creation, transgression and fall in a 13th century English bestiary (Oxford, St. Johns College MS 61). 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.