A Monstrous Assemblage: The Story Less Ordinary of a Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Manuscript
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In 1416, an anonymous group of artists produced a painted copy of the poet Ahmedī’s Iskendername (Book of Alexander the Great). As the earliest known example of a painted Ottoman manuscript, the tome included twenty paintings and one astronomical chart, but only three of the paintings, now heavily damaged, were original. The rest were collages and cut-and-paste images from two different fourteenth century manuscripts from the Greater Iran of the post-Mongol period. Approaching the paintings of the Iskendername with a methodology inspired by the works of the medievalist Michael Camille and cultural theorist Jeffrey J. Cohen, this article explores the ceremonial potential of its paintings in both content and use. It argues that the particular monstrosity of the images were central to their ceremonial potency.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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