(Source: http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.speechballoons.html).

The Evangeliar Heinrich des Löwen

According to Andy Bleck's page on speech ballons at: http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.speechballoons.html (beware the page may take an eon to load) the text bands in this illustration contain questions (in red) and answers (in black). Next time you are in an older church with Gothic stained glass windows, check them out because this technique is used a lot in religious glass work for ascribing characters and explaining narrative.