Research Catalog

Title

Graphic devices and the early decorated book / edited by Michelle P. Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov and Benjamin C. Tilghman.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
• Garipzanov, Ildar H.
• Tilghman, Benjamin C.

Description

xiii, 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

The early medieval decorated book illuminates our understanding of the processes of cultural transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and from a trans-continental super-power to western and eastern nation states and revivals of empire - Byzantine and Carolingian. The study of 'graphicacy' (graphic devices, such as inscribed letters and decorative symbols, used to convey information on the text) is emerging as a pivotal tool for understanding how the graphic architecture of the book played a role in the dissemination and reception of thought. The essays in this volume add to the growing scholarship on the medieval schematic and diagramming imagination, exploring some of the many ways in which the spatial arrangement and patterning of text, graphic sign, and figural image generated meaning for medieval viewers, readers, and performers of the written word. Among the individual topics addressed are monograms; the appearance of the cross in early medieval Christian manuscripts; and Anglo-Saxon decorated initials.

Series Statement

Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 2045-4902

Uniform Title

Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.

Subject

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The role of graphic devices in understanding the early decorated book -- I. Graphic devices in the early medieval book: cross-cultural perspectives on a comples pheomenon: "In the image and likeness of God": the dedication monogram in the calendar of 354 and early medieval monogrammatic initials / Ildar H. 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 -- II. Insular and Carolingian graphicacy: shared practices in divergent settings: The visual rhetoric of insular decorated incipit openings / Michelle P. 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 / Beatric Kitzinger -- III. Contrast and commonality: Byzantine manuscripts: 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 -- IV. Embeddding graphic devices in understanding the complete codex: externalizstion and internalization: The cross on the book: diagram, ornament, materiality / David Ganz -- Graphic glosses and argumentative ornament / Herbert L. Kessler.

Call Number

JFE 18-390

ISBN

• 1783272260
• 9781783272266

OCLC

971232060

Title

Graphic devices and the early decorated book / edited by Michelle P. Brown, Ildar H. Garipzanov and Benjamin C. Tilghman.

Publisher

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 2045-4902

Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.), editor.

Garipzanov, Ildar H., editor.

Tilghman, Benjamin C., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-390