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erikkwakkel<\/a>:<\/p>\n Medieval dachshund – Or: drawing with words<\/strong><\/p>\n Here are three examples of a technique called \u201cmicrography\u201d: decorative scenes that are drawn with words written in a tiny script. While there are examples from Latin books made in the West (here<\/a> is one), the technique is particularly common in medieval Hebrew manuscripts. The drawings are usually found in biblical manuscripts and they appear to be commentaries to the text. The technique, whereby a scribe wrote in the smallest handwriting possible, goes back to the 9th century AD. The examples here, from the 13th century, shows just how entertaining the word-made drawings can be: they are an opportunity for the scribe to frolick in the margins of the page – like drawing a creature that looks like a dachshund.<\/p>\n Pic: London, British Library, Additional MS 21160 (13th century, more about the manuscript here<\/a>). More about micrography here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" erikkwakkel: Medieval dachshund – Or: drawing with words Here are three examples of a technique called \u201cmicrography\u201d: decorative scenes that are drawn with words written in a tiny script. While there are examples from Latin books made in the West (here is one), the technique is particularly common in medieval Hebrew manuscripts. The drawings are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1429,12,326,914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21145,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions\/21145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}