Extraction and Reassembly: Glossing as a Model Kit

Jesús Velasco, Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

Thursday, October 8, 2026, 5:15 - 6:30 pm EST

In this presentation, I will examine several manuscripts from the late Middle Ages in which glosses have been extracted, copied elsewhere in temporary or sometimes definitive codices, to be relocated, reassembled, and reused as discrete elements for different purposes. I will advance a thesis about the regulatory power of extraction and reassembly.