There's a great deal of tabular data in medieval documents: tax records, real estate transactions, obits, accounts, calendars, canon tables, indexes, wappen books, moon charts, pledges, easter-calculation charts.
Obituaries were sometimes written in variable-sized blocks on several parts of a folio at different times by different people.
It may not relate well to blocks of different sizes and shapes (especially if some are diagonal), but the general notion of groups of data added at various times on various parts of the page certainly existed.
Obituaries were sometimes written in variable-sized blocks on several parts of a folio at different times by different people.
It may not relate well to blocks of different sizes and shapes (especially if some are diagonal), but the general notion of groups of data added at various times on various parts of the page certainly existed.