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¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In 2001, I examined some medieval manuscripts in The British Library and Bodleian Library. The aim of the overseas examination was whether or not the manuscripts had miniatures of the other world. The examination of miniatures is quite useful to study visually medieval people's consciousness to the other world. At the two libraries above, though I read and examined as many manuscripts as possible, I could not find so many miniatures which pictured the other world in the seven works that I had expected. It was, however, really lucky to realize that quite interesting miniatures were included in other works.
Besides the overseas examination, I translated the two works of medieval vision literature, St. Patrick's Purgatory and The Vision of Tundale. These are quite important works for the other world study. In fact, a few words and sentences must be examined more in detail. However, I am sure these works' descriptions of Purgatory, Hell and Paradise may be interested even to modern readers. Moreover, I realized that their descriptions were deeply related to those of The Bible, so the report of research results has the findings of overseas research and the literal translations of two well-known works, including notes about some relations between the works and The Bible.
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