24-04-2017, 07:02 PM
@Anton - typographical because it relates to the layout of the text.
The canon is the construction of the page layout.
Raúl Rosavario created the field when he noticed the proportions inherent in early printed books. You get a lot of guff about the golden ration, 2:3 ratio and whatnot, but at its simplest, it's just planning the proportions of any page layout to make it easy on the eye. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.has some information on it, not very detailed.
Early manuscripts also had them. You'll find similar sized margins across the pages of illustrated manuscripts - there was a specific layout plan which was adhered to across pages.
Given the rather slapdash nature of the VM construction and failure to adhere to scribal training (ie, no ruling) I would not expect to find such consistency, but it does fit with what you are describing.
My question is - and I have done zero research on the VM here, this is simply off the top of my head - are the blocks of text in the "text-only" parts under discussion similar in layout proportion? If so, it is possible that the scribe was intentionally using a proportion of the page for whatever mystical or graphical reason of his own.
If a trend can be found across pages, this would be very interesting....
The canon is the construction of the page layout.
Raúl Rosavario created the field when he noticed the proportions inherent in early printed books. You get a lot of guff about the golden ration, 2:3 ratio and whatnot, but at its simplest, it's just planning the proportions of any page layout to make it easy on the eye. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.has some information on it, not very detailed.
Early manuscripts also had them. You'll find similar sized margins across the pages of illustrated manuscripts - there was a specific layout plan which was adhered to across pages.
Given the rather slapdash nature of the VM construction and failure to adhere to scribal training (ie, no ruling) I would not expect to find such consistency, but it does fit with what you are describing.
My question is - and I have done zero research on the VM here, this is simply off the top of my head - are the blocks of text in the "text-only" parts under discussion similar in layout proportion? If so, it is possible that the scribe was intentionally using a proportion of the page for whatever mystical or graphical reason of his own.
If a trend can be found across pages, this would be very interesting....