Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

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

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