Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book

Michelle P. Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov, Benjamin C. Tilghman

Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts.

Introduction: The Role of Graphic Devices in Understanding the Early Decorated Book"In the Image and Likeness of God": The Dedication Monogram in the Calendar of 354 and Early Medieval Monogrammatic Initials - Ildar Garipzanov'Character' and the Power of the Letter - David GanzTangled Voices: Writing, Drawing and the Anglo-Saxon Decorated Initial - Catherine E. KarkovGraphic Visualization in Liturgical Manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages: The Initial "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone - Eric PalazzoGraphic Quire Marks and Qur'anic Verse Markers in Frankish and Islamic manuscripts from the Seventh and Eighth Centuries - Lawrence NeesThe Graphic Cross as Salvific Mark and Organizing Principle: Making, Marking, Shaping - Cynthia HahnThe Visual Rhetoric of Insular Decorated Incipit Openings - Michelle BrownThe Relationship between Letter and Frame in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts - Tina BawdenPatterns of Meaning in Insular Manuscripts: folio 183r in the Book of Kells - Benjamin C. TilghmanGraphic and Figural Representation in Touronian Gospel Illumination - Beatrice KitzingerMeaning from the Margins: Graphic Signs, Frames and Initials in a ninth-century Byzantine Manuscript - Leslie BrubakerAn Exercise in Extravagance and Abundance: Some Thoughts on the Marginalia Decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216 - Kallirroe LinardouThe Cross on the Book: Diagram, Ornament, Materiality - David GanzGraphic Glosses and Argumentative Ornament - Herbert KesslerBibliography