@inbook{1ff3d910a62a47d8a184d74f4a33b020,
title = "Of Colophons and Cryptographs",
abstract = "This essay considers the phenomenon of early medieval colophonic inscriptions that present visual puzzles. Instances of Latin written in alternative characters, or textual lines shaped into adventurous forms, prompt a re-negotiation of the relationship between a reader and a book. Such inscriptions keep a reader's consciousness of the book's facture at the fore, and speak to the role of manuscripts in forging communities across time.",
keywords = "colophon, cryptic writing, illumination, manuscript culture, scribal signature",
author = "Beatrice Kitzinger",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1515/9783111435954-002",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Sense, Matter, and Medium",
publisher = "Walter de Gruyter GmbH",
pages = "15--36",
editor = "Herbert, \{Lynley Anne\} and Isabelle Lachat and Wagner, \{Stephen M.\}",
booktitle = "Sense, Matter, and Medium",
address = "Germany",
}