The picture bible shadows the lectionary

Status: Anticipated · untested

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This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

The Biblia pauperum pairs each Gospel scene with two Old Testament foreshadowings — the most widely diffused typological scheme of the later Middle Ages. Scholars naturally derive its pairings from the exegetical tradition of the Glossa and the theologians. The conjecture is that the compilers copied a humbler source: the mass lectionary, whose calendar already juxtaposed Old Testament lections with Gospel pericopes week by week, so the picture bible's type-antitype pairs should match liturgical pericope conjunctions at a rate well above their match to Gloss cross-references — and where lectionary and Gloss disagree, the manuscripts should side with the lectionary. The scheme's makers were clergy who heard these texts paired aloud every year; the book fixed in images what the calendar had already joined in sound. If it holds, Europe's best-known typology is liturgical sediment rather than learned construction, and its regional variants should follow lectionary families.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause: where the mass lectionary's pericope conjunctions and the Glossa's cross-references disagree about an Old Testament pairing, the early Biblia pauperum manuscript tradition follows the lectionary in at least two thirds of decidable cases. Secondary: overall pairing overlap with lectionary conjunctions significantly exceeds overlap with Gloss cross-references.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Published Biblia pauperum facsimiles and pairing tables (Schmidt's Die Armenbibeln des XIV. Jahrhunderts; Henry's Biblia Pauperum edition) with Klauser's Das romische Capitulare Evangeliorum lectionary tables.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

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Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

Biblia pauperum scholarship (Schmidt; Henry) derives the pairings from the exegetical-typological tradition and notes the book's arrangement following the church year, but the source-competition test — pairings siding with mass-lectionary pericope conjunctions against the Gloss where they disagree — has not been proposed or run.

A. Henry, Biblia Pauperum: A Facsimile and Edition (1987)

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