McLaughlin, Roisin, “Text run-over imagery and reader’s aids in Irish manuscripts”, Ériu 71 (2021): 69–115.
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- DOI: 10.1353/eri.2021.0003
The focus of scholarly comment on Irish manuscript illumination has been largely on letters. This paper examines the design and development of the text run-over symbol, a scribal device which has received relatively little analysis to date. It will be seen that the convention of using images to mark text run-overs, while not peculiar to Irish manuscripts (Brown 1996, 19, 192), persisted for a remarkably long time in the scribal tradition. Aspects of the wider manuscript context and function of marginal art, the use of reader’s aids and the relationship between text and image are also considered.
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