Margin

Teeuwen 2016
1 - Scribal activity in the margin is characterized by its own set of specific
characteristics and practices. It displays, for example, the tendency to
be built up in layers and to accumulate over time. It has, furthermore, a
typical commonness of various sets of signs, such as Tironian notes, signs
for textual criticism and reader guidance, or signs linking annotations to
words or phrases in the main text.
2 - the space around a text attracted new text. ‘Marginalia’
Already in the late-antique material, these annotating practices can
be observed to come in many different shapes and sizes. Often they
took the form of occasional reflections on the text, such as the insertion
of corrections, variant readings or the presence of lacunae

BEAL
245 - Margins are the blank borders surrounding the central block of text on
printed
or manuscript pages. The four margins may be described as the upper margin
(sometimes called the head or top margin), the lower margin (sometimes called
the tail or foot margin), the inner margin (next to the gutter in a book and
sometimes called the gutter margin), and the outer margin (sometimes called the
fore-edge margin).

MAIN TEXT
Angelika Garz
Main Body Text The regular text building the continuous text consisting of the main
text excluding objects such as annotations, numerations, notes, initials, headings.
In
the Psalter , it is organized in one column. The Glagolitic language and script
does
not conflate characters to words and thus, the horizontal spaces between characters
are uniform.
BEAL
245 - the central block of text

HOW THE PAGE MATTERS

3 - The page is a powerful interface between designer and reader
9 - The page is more than a simple vehicle or container for the transmission of
ideas; it is a part of those ideas,
entangled in the story itself.
14 -The four edges of the page, perhaps papyrus, parchment, or paper, tell both the
designer and reader where the space of communication begins and ends. As a single
sheet, the page may stand free of an
obvious attachment with others of its kind. The material boundaries of the solitary
page
not only circumscribe the space of communication, they also circumscribe the
message
itself; there is nothing more to be read than what is on the page.
With each turn of the page, a new pair of facing pages is unveiled at the same time
that the previous couple is obscured from view. As a consequence, the recto and
verso of
the same folio are in close conversation with their facing counterparts, often
depending
upon this proximal relationship to sustain the rhetorical coherence of their
message.
15-16 - Words on the page are regularly understood to transmit information through
language,
but they can convey meaning in other ways
By generating a particular visual expression, the shapes of letters may, for
instance, exploit the authority of an established tradition or diverge self-
consciously from conventional patterns
16 - Although the study of the word is central to many current explorations of
books and
their materiality, a consideration of its absence is equally valuable. Unmarked
zones
of the page are purposeful, and participate critically in the communication of
ideas
17 - Without these saccadic
pauses that allow the eye to skip quickly across a line of text, the process of
reading can
take more than twice as long
Furthermore, the spaces between words, between lines, and around the text block can
be
understood as visual and cognitive breaks, employed by designers and readers as a
way to
moderate the pace of engagement with the page. By leaving space on the page
unfilled,
designers provide openings for readers to pause and consider the thoughts that they
have
encountered.
18 - The page is an expressive space for text, space, and image;
36 - the pages of the two copies were likely issued from Vérard’s press shortly
after one
another with little alteration to the formes that were used for printing, it cannot
be said
that the two codices – the two products – are identical
the capacity of paratexts to change the material expression of a book and,
consequently, its meaning
39 κ.ε. για headings

Για Παλίμψηστα
Διαφορετικά layers, ένα πάνω, ένα κάτω, σαφής διάκριση overwritten and underwritten
script,
scriptio inferior, scriptio superior, οι όροι φανερώνουν τρισδιάστατη αναπαράσταση
και την καθ' ύψος διάσταση
Ισπανικό 19: disposicion de las escrituras, τοποθέτηση των γραφών, imposicion
Αντιγραφείς και φιλόλογοι: 228-32 υποκείμενη γραφή

CALAMUS
Beal (2008) A pen is any hand-held writing implement used for applying ink to
paper, to
parchment or, in ancient times, to papyrus.

Isidore 6.14.3 - The scribe’s tools are the reed-pen and the quill, for by
these the words are fixed onto the page. verba paginis infiguntur (υπάρχει ως
μετάφραση το εγχαράσσω)

Writing and Illuminating - 146 Elaborate letters or ornaments

may be drawn with a hard pencil, which will
leave slight indentations in the surface of the page
when the marks of the lead have been removed
with indiarubber.