Comments | adaese: But it's Sir Gawain! With the picture of Lady Bertilak in a spotty dotty dress!

adaese

But it's Sir Gawain! With the picture of Lady Bertilak in a spotty dotty dress!

Oct 01, 2015 13:53

Me: I hate, loathe and detest the Folio Society, mutter, mutter, lavish deluxe facsimile MS Cotton Nero A.x (The Pearl Manuscript, including Sir Gawain) mutter mutter ( Read more... )

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wellinghall October 1 2015, 13:35:40 UTC

This is why I didn't initially understand you on the phone - I heard you say :, when you meant .

rthstewart October 2 2015, 03:05:02 UTC

The sign of a truly sympathetic accord.

heliopausa October 7 2015, 10:04:06 UTC

The spotty dress does sound appealing. :)

adaese October 7 2015, 13:01:02 UTC

I have a particular soft spot for that picture, because there was an exhibition a few years ago where they had the Gawain MS open at that page, in the same case with CS Lewis's annotated copy of Tolkien & Gordon's edition. The only way I can think of to get more geek-points into one display case would be to light it up with a light-sabre.

adaese October 7 2015, 13:05:35 UTC

Here she is! http://contentdm.ucalgary.ca/cdm/singleitem/collection/gawain/id/357/rec/177

heliopausa October 7 2015, 14:10:21 UTC

What a lovely page! I like her air of serenity, no matter what mildly perfidious thing she's about to attempt (seducing Sir Gawain? no chance, surely! But what a pleasing way to start, by tickling his chin!) I do like her spotty dress, and I like her head-dress, too.
Is she holding something in her right hand, or just touching the end of the bed-head?

(On the geek-quotient question, yes, agreed, definitely! and - tangent: what terrific exhibitions you go to from time to time!)

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