Narrative and Translation in New York Public Library Spencer Collection ms. 22 and Related Manuscripts

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Julia Finch
Date: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 12:00 to 13:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
203 Frick Fine Arts Building

Late medieval audiences read the Bible in different languages, including the language of pictorial narrative.... This paper focuses on two intimately related manuscripts - a late twelfth-century Spanish narrative picture Bible produced for Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre (Amiens, B.m. ms. 108) and a fourteenth-century, stylistically-updated version of the same visual narrative (New York Public Library, Spencer 22). With a focus on the relationship between Sancho's Bible and Spencer 22, I examine the genre of narrative picture Bibles and the role of the pictorial translator in the image-to-image translation of visual narrative from Romanesque Spain to Gothic France.

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Department of History of Art and Architecture
World Regions: 
Europe
Western Europe