“Une approche sérielle” to the Theophilus sequence of illuminations in Besançon 551
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The medieval legend of Theophilus generated a near-unending corpus of images and texts. The legend obviously captured a vital medieval preoccupation: about identity, the mediating power of the Virgin, and the role of the individual in salvation. No visualization of the legend captures the textual narrative as faithfully as the one in manuscript 551 of the Bibliothèque municipale of Besançon. And yet, this visual fidelity to the textual narrative may easily blind us to the sophisticated and creative way the Besançon artist engages with the legend. By approaching these images with Jérôme Baschet’s “approche sérielle,” this article moves beyond the representational modality of this sequence of images to explore the relational visual narrative they propose. In the case of Besançon 551, the “approche sérielle” permits us to “see” the way the artist deploys subtle marks, signs, objects, and images to dramatize Theophilus’ pathway to salvation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it