Abstract
The session will explore the singular dialogue between a collection of stone images, the rood screen and choir screen of Notre-Dame, and a collection of ink images, a " Bible historiée toute figurée " painted around 1340, which was inspired by these two sculpted cycles. This dismembered manuscript, scattered around the world, has been the subject of new discoveries during the exhibition at the Musée de Cluny. It will be examined from the angle of language, literary and devotional typology and the style of its illuminations, as well as what it reveals about the rood screen and enclosure, which were destroyed in 1699 to make way for Louis XIII's wishes. Speakers will explore the hypotheses surrounding the commissioning of this mysterious manuscript in relation to the cathedral chapter.
