You may want to look at the work of Robert D. Stevick in this regard. For example,
_The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts_ (University of Pennsylvania, 1994), ISBN
0812232208. The same mathematical ratios Stevick describes with respect to page
layout are discussed by David Howlett with respect to the composition of insular
Latin prose and exegesis. Howlett, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval
Latin, has published widely on the subject.
Stephen
> It may be that to look, quite literally, at
> the texts as they were "formatted" to use a computer term, would be
> useful. THat or I have been hanging around with codicologists too much.
> Regards, Terry
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