Abstract Folding almanacs provided their medieval users with densely-packed information about scientific practices, medical treatments, astrological movements, and religious feast days. Their contents are mirrored by an equally compact materiality, one based on folded panels rather than side-bound pages. This article pays special attention to one such manuscript—London, British Library MS Harley 937—in its argument that the genre is far more complex and provocative than has previously been imagined. Harley 937, written in the vernacular and including an adaptation of Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe, represents an object deeply concerned with the connection between form and access. It mediates this connection through an emphasis on material and conceptual expansion, one enabled by the form of the fold and the myriad didactic potentialities afforded by the act of unfolding meaning. Taking as its foundation Gilles Deleuze’s formulation of the fold as “endlessly furling and unfurling in every direction,” this article contends that, far from being a straightforward referential tool, the medieval folding almanac instead facilitates a restless, embodied negotiation of the space between readers, writers, and their objects.

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打开中世纪折叠年鉴

摘要折叠年历为中世纪用户提供了有关科学实践，医疗方法，占星运动和宗教节日的密集信息。它们的内容由同样紧凑的实体反映出来，即基于折叠面板而不是侧边装订的页面。本文特别关注这样的手稿，即伦敦，大英图书馆MS Harley 937，其论点是这种体裁比以前想象的要复杂和挑衅得多。哈雷937用白话写成，包括乔of对《星盘》的论着的改编，代表了一个对象，与形式和访问之间的联系密切相关。它通过强调物质和概念的扩展来调解这种联系，折叠的形式和展开意义的行为所提供的无数种教学潜能使人们得以实现。本文以吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）对折页的表述为“在各个方向上不断卷曲和展开”为基础，认为，中世纪的折页历书不仅是一种直接的参考工具，而且还促进了读者之间不停，具体化的空间协商，而不仅仅是一种直接的参考工具。 ，作家及其对象。