The collection.
Marguerite Waknine| N° d'inventaire | 23727 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 60 p., notebook. |
| Publication | Angoulême, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094565766 |
There is undoubtedly something encyclopedic here (this desire to present, to organize large swathes of knowledge) although it is also, above all, a sort of bewildering, absolutely dizzying mixture, a variety of compiled subjects, which is in the spirit of miscellanies. The manuscript comprises some 300 leaves containing texts and images from books and engravings, including biblical and monarchical chronologies, an illustrated calendar, proverbs, astronomical diagrams, a list of fairs, another of the sheriffs and mayors of London, a table of distances between London and other cities in the world, alphabets, descriptions of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, decorative motifs relating to embroidery, carpentry, gardens, and much more... A collection compiled over eight years by a certain Thomas Trevelyon, then aged sixty, composed of subtly arranged images and texts, a work of art, certainly, offering the reader, without ceasing to instruct him, the possibility of taking a sort of playful, particularly disconcerting walk.
There is undoubtedly something encyclopedic here (this desire to present, to organize large swathes of knowledge) although it is also, above all, a sort of bewildering, absolutely dizzying mixture, a variety of compiled subjects, which is in the spirit of miscellanies. The manuscript comprises some 300 leaves containing texts and images from books and engravings, including biblical and monarchical chronologies, an illustrated calendar, proverbs, astronomical diagrams, a list of fairs, another of the sheriffs and mayors of London, a table of distances between London and other cities in the world, alphabets, descriptions of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, decorative motifs relating to embroidery, carpentry, gardens, and much more... A collection compiled over eight years by a certain Thomas Trevelyon, then aged sixty, composed of subtly arranged images and texts, a work of art, certainly, offering the reader, without ceasing to instruct him, the possibility of taking a sort of playful, particularly disconcerting walk.