rooms research 1 - medieval margin art.... marginalia, A Gloss

 "marginalia"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia

The big decorative letters at the beginning of the text?? (historiated initial)

https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/margins_manuscripts/#:~:text=Just%20outside%20the%20blocks%20of,%E2%80%94collectively%20called%20%22marginalia.%22

Book:
image on the edge the margins of medieval art
https://archive.org/details/imageonedgemargi0000cami/page/12/mode/2up

made a pinterest page 
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/naturalenquiry/marginalia/

read?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_de_la_Rose
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Romance_of_the_Rose/y6A-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatulent-monks-and-other-surprises-of-sacred-medieval-manuscripts/

"In the medieval context, marginalia is understood to mean images that exist outside or on the edge of a page’s main program. But the term is also sometimes applied to other arts, like architecture. It can describe sculptural details that might seem grotesque or nonsensical to modern eyes. Gargoyles, for instance, could be thought of as a kind of marginalia."

"Camille has suggested that marginalia emerged from the tradition of the gloss, which is an explanatory note that helps elucidate difficult passages in the text. A gloss wasn’t a footnote; it was actually written into the margin, either in the original language of the book or in the vernacular."

https://theconversation.com/why-so-many-medieval-manuscripts-feature-doodles-and-what-they-reveal-190114

"We see this in a manuscript catalogued as Cotton Vespasian D. vi, which is currently held in the British Library in London. The scribe has written the Latin words “Probatio Penn[a]e”, which means “pen test”"
"Sometimes, though, the scribes were a little bit bolder and wrote more emotively about their work. In Aelfric’s 11th-century Old English De termporibus anni, a concise handbook of natural science, the scribe finishes with:
Sy þeos gesetnys þus her geendod. God helpe minum handum.
Thus, let this composition be ended here. God help my hands"

A GLOSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)

ANNOTATIONS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle

historiated initial

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/naturalenquiry/historiated-initials/

Furniture, low contrast imgs

Decoration, To Decorate a space.

interior design

Wallpaper..

Fringe, skirting boards. Subtle things that make big changes to a room...

Space, layout/shape of a room and the shape of a text block...