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.

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 ; 'Character' and the Power of the Letter ; Tangled Voices- Writing, Drawing and the Anglo-Saxon Decorated Initial ; Graphic Visualization in Liturgical Manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages- The Initial "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone ; Graphic Quire Marks and Qur'anic Verse Markers in Frankish and Islamic manuscripts from the Seventh and Eighth Centuries ; The Graphic Cross as Salvific Mark and Organizing Principle- Making, Marking, Shaping ; The Visual Rhetoric of Insular Decorated Incipit Openings ; The Relationship between Letter and Frame in Insular and Carolingian Manuscripts ; Patterns of Meaning in Insular Manuscripts- folio 183r in the Book of Kells ; Graphic and Figural Representation in Touronian Gospel Illumination ; Meaning from the Margins- Graphic Signs, Frames and Initials in a ninth-century Byzantine Manuscript ; An Exercise in Extravagance and Abundance- Some Thoughts on the Marginalia Decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216 ; The Cross on the Book- Diagram, Ornament, Materiality ; Graphic Glosses and Argumentative Ornament. (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture)

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