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Talk: Putting the Text in a Picture Frame
Dublin City, Co. Dublin
19 November 2025
Free to visit
Join Dr Stephen Carlson for a free Hybrid Talk 'Putting the Text in a Picture Frame' at Chester Beatty this November.

Chester Beatty manuscript CBL W 139 is an exquisite Gospel “frame commentary” in which the Gospel text is positioned in the centre of a page spread and then the annotations are set forth all around it in the top, outside, and bottom margins, like an elaborate picture frame.

This lecture presents examples of frame commentaries and highlights their aesthetic qualities that contribute to the readers’ understanding.

Free talk in the Reference Library or online via Zoom. Registration required.

Image: Gospel Book/Byzantine Empire/Late 11th or early 12th century/CBL W 139

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Dates
19 November 2025
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Start 18:00
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Chester Beatty, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, D02 AD92, Ireland
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