{"product_id":"pearl-manuscript-limited-edition-folio-society-2231","title":"Pearl manuscript - Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePearl Manuscript (British library MS Cotton Nero A.x) : Pearl; Cleanness; Patience; Sir Gawain and the Green Night. (2v.). Facsimile printed on Arctic Volume Ivory, bound in dark blue Indian goatskin with gold foil blocked cover and spine, tinted page edges, ribbon page marker, housed in velvet covered and gold pattern embossed tray, 184pp. Commentary volume, foreword by Bernard O'Donaghue, parallel text and notes edited by Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron, bound in dark blue gilt printed buckram, 536pp. 980 copies. 27.5x20.3x9cm. (£345)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearl is a fourteenth-century Middle English dream vision preserved in the same manuscript as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A grieving narrator falls asleep in a garden and encounters a mysterious maiden in a radiant otherworld, leading to a conversation about loss, innocence, salvation and divine justice. The poem is admired for its intricate structure, rich symbolism and emotional treatment of bereavement and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216617292115,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421241295187,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/pearl-manuscript-limited-edition-folio-society-2231","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}