Table of Contents

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 Ganz
Tangled Voices: Writing, Drawing and the Anglo-Saxon Decorated Initial - Catherine E. Karkov
Graphic Visualization in Liturgical Manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages: The Initial "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone - Eric Palazzo
Graphic Quire Marks and Qur'anic Verse Markers in Frankish and Islamic manuscripts from the Seventh and Eighth Centuries - Lawrence Nees
The Graphic Cross as Salvific Mark and Organizing Principle: Making, Marking, Shaping - Cynthia Hahn
The Visual Rhetoric of Insular Decorated Incipit Openings - Michelle Brown
The Relationship between Letter and Frame in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts - Tina Bawden
Patterns of Meaning in Insular Manuscripts: folio 183r in the Book of Kells - Benjamin C. Tilghman
Graphic and Figural Representation in Touronian Gospel Illumination - Beatrice Kitzinger
Meaning from the Margins: Graphic Signs, Frames and Initials in a ninth-century Byzantine Manuscript - Leslie Brubaker
An Exercise in Extravagance and Abundance: Some Thoughts on the Marginalia Decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216 - Kallirroe Linardou
The Cross on the Book: Diagram, Ornament, Materiality - David Ganz
Graphic Glosses and Argumentative Ornament - Herbert Kessler
Bibliography

About the Author

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds.

Reviews

Provides a much-needed modern exploration of the potential function and meaning behind decoration within early medieval manuscripts....it will surely be of great use to researchers in a wide range of disciplines, from paleography to history and art history.
*EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE*

The . . . fourteen studies, all excellent, address a range of innovations to which nascent book cultures, from the fourth century through the end of the first millennium, gave rise.
*SPECULUM*