Bibliographic record
Abstract
The focus of this chapter is a fifteenth-century Flemish psalter (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 997.158.15), interpreted here as a socially conscious archival project that attests to the resilience, diplomacy, and foresight of its widowed female patron. This discussion calls for an expanded function of the book that subsumes devotional concerns within a larger agenda, one intimately bound to the physical alteration of the book around 1480. New codicological evidence reveals how the interrelated acts of remembering and collecting work to compile a revised family history, shaped by memories of ancestral status, social alliance, and civic engagement. But another layer of documentation is gathered here, intent on reaffirming the patron&s;s social persona and agency in the wake of significant domestic and civic trauma. Two notable modifications to the manuscript offer special insight: The incorporation of an older and rather unusual textblock as the core of the whole project; and the addition of new images keyed to the patron&s;s experience. Underscoring the material-visual focus of this project, these modifications do substantial archival work. Not only do they preserve palpable ancestral and social traces, they also assemble alternative perspectives on the patron&s;s past that impart new meaning to her present circumstances and negotiate new prospects for future generations. The psalter&s;s capacity to straddle temporalities, gather various social networks, and accommodate a range of audience – from the patron, its initial user, to her descendants – renders it a remarkably flexible entity. As such, it invites engagement with an interdisciplinary body of gender and material studies, especially those emphasizing the cultural property and socio-economic experience of elite women in Burgundian Flanders, but also those attentive to the book object itself as a potential agent of change. This study is thus framed by theories of objecthood and collection practice that seek to disentangle and more fully evaluate the ties that bind possession to possessor.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.054 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.026 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.024 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.048 | 0.014 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".