Resumen de Le lien des images avec le texte dans les manuscrits tardifs de l’“Epistre Othea”: un indice de leur parenté avec les cycles iconographiques des manuscrits de présentation?
In the late manuscripts of the Epistre Othea, the filiation of the images takes on different aspects. The miniatures of MS Laud Misc. 570 present iconographic similarities with those of MSS BnF, fr. 606 and BL, Harley 4431, which were illuminated under Christine de Pizan’s supervision. On the contrary, MS Erlangen, UB 2361 includes numerous miniatures, which illustrate different themes from those which the author chose at the beginning of the fifteenth century. In MSS Bodley 421, Bodmer 49 and Lille, BM 175, the filiation of the images seems to be more complex. Some miniatures of MSS Lille, BM 175 and Bodley 421, that have an identical iconography, but differ from those of MSS Français 606 and Harley 4431, draw particularly the reader’s attention.
The unifying thread of this contribution consists in taking account of the link between text and images which characterizes the manuscripts of the Epistre Othea illuminated under Christine de Pizan’s supervision. As the images participate in the meaning together with the text in these manuscripts, the analysis of the link between images and text in late manuscripts could permit to study the transmission of the original link, but also to detect the existence of kinship relations between the iconography of late manuscripts and that of lost manuscripts of presentation
