Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-xiii

List of Contributors

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction: The Role of Graphic Devices in Understanding the Early Decorated Book

pp 1-12

I - Graphic Devices in the Early Medieval Book: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on a Complex Phenomenon

pp 13-14

1 - ‘In the Image and Likeness of God’: The Dedication Monogram in the Calendar of 354 and Early Medieval Monogrammatic Initials

pp 15-30

2 - ‘Character’ and the Power of the Letter

pp 31-44

3 - Tangled Voices: Writing, Drawing and the Anglo-Saxon Decorated Initial

pp 45-62

4 - Graphic Visualization in Liturgical Manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages: The Initial ‘O’ in the Sacramentary of Gellone

pp 63-79

5 - Graphic Quire Marks and Qur’anic Verse Markers in Frankish and Islamic Manuscripts from the Seventh and Eighth Centuries

pp 80-99

6 - The Graphic Cross as Salvific Mark and Organizing Principle: Making, Marking, Shaping

pp 100-124

II - Insular and Carolingian Graphicacy: Shared Practices in Divergent Settings

pp 125-126

7 - The Visual Rhetoric of Insular Decorated Incipit Openings

pp 127-142

8 - The Relationship between Letter and Frame in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts

pp 143-162

9 - Patterns of Meaning in Insular Manuscripts: Folio 183r in the Book of Kells

pp 163-178

10 - Graphic and Figural Representation in Touronian Gospel Illumination

pp 179-202

III - Contrast and Commonality: Byzantine Manuscripts

pp 203-204

11 - Meaning from the Margins: Graphic Signs, Frames and Initials in a Ninth-Century Byzantine Manuscript

pp 205-217

12 - An Exercise in Extravagance and Abundance: Some Thoughts on the marginalia decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216

pp 218-240

IV - Embedding Graphic Devices in Understanding the Complete Codex: Externalization and Internalization

pp 241-242

13 - The Cross on the Book: Diagram, Ornament, Materiality

pp 243-264

14 - Graphic Glosses and Argumentative Ornament

pp 265-289

Index

pp 290-301

Already Published

pp 302-302