Représentations de la décapitation dans les copies enluminées du Lancelot publié par Antoine Vérard (1494)

Babel: Littératures Plurielles

关键词: Lancelot;    miniature;    engraving;    manuscript;    early printed book;    incunable;   

DOI  :  10.4000/babel.11590

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article examines the representations of beheadings in the illuminated copies printed on vellum of Vérard’s 1494 Lancelot now held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (Vélins 614-616 et 617-619) and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna (Ink. 5.C.11) and it compares them with the illustrations of earlier Lancelot manuscripts. This rich iconographic corpus includes large engravings, either created for Vérard’s Lancelot, or reused from other editions, which are coloured or replaced by new illustrations ; and small miniatures, column-wide, more freely created and inserted in the text. Decapitation plays a key role in narrative episodes such as the defeat of the knight Caradoc, the discovery of the body of Lancelot the Older, or the murder committed by Mordred : it enlightens the past, present and future of the characters, often in a negative way. In fighting scenes, beheadings are part of a continuum in the textual and visual depictions of the violence of combat.

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