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

[adaeze]

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.
Wellinghall: Can I think about that before saying Yes?

I think our mutual resolve not to make any big book purchases until we've done some serious bookshelf-pruning has just gone kaput.

In other news, always check your references before hitting "Post". I just typed, without looking, MS Cotton Nero A:x, when of course what I really meant was A.x. I know you will all be deeply and profoundly shocked that I could make such a clumsy error.

Comments

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

That sounds brilliant! and I recall the one two-three years back, which had much Narnia in. Ruth got to see it, I think, while I seethed jealously a thousand miles away. (No, I didn't really! I availed myself as hard as I could of the online aspects.)

and heaps to explore on that linked page, too - thank you very much for showing it to me! I like Dante and Virgil and the lost wind-blown romantics, and the Sir Gawain page is terrific! and "menskful"!! :D a word to be noted and absorbed - I liked the Toulouse red silk, too. :) and the armour, of course! (Not sure how something as relatively small and functional as the cowters can be 'gay' - do you think they were of a different, stand-out, metal? copper?) But the whole page - lovely! :)Thank you!

[adaese.livejournal.com]

That was the day we showed Ruth Oxford - that exhibition, and the dodo in this icon (one of the new ones adorning a restored stretch of the Bod.) among other things.