Abstract

This article examines how early herbals were produced and illustrated, with a focus on the relationship between the design of the page and that of the production system. It shows that most surviving ancient illustrated herbals were illustrated prior to the copying of the text and thereby privileged the transfer of visual over verbal content. Over the course of the sixth century, however, we find that illustrated herbals were increasingly illustrated after the copying of text. The article suggests that this shift in production may have been a result of the consolidation of book production within monastic contexts. Still, even after the rise of text-first illustration, herbals continue to bear traces of the picture-first system in the close physical relationship between word and image.

摘要

本文探讨了早期草药是如何制作和插图的，重点关注页面设计与生产系统设计之间的关系。它表明，大多数幸存的古代插图草药是在复制文本之前进行插图的，从而使视觉内容的转移优先于文字内容。然而，在六世纪的过程中，我们发现在复制文本之后，插图草药越来越多。文章认为，这种生产方式的转变可能是在寺院环境中整合书籍生产的结果。尽管如此，即使在文字优先插图兴起之后，草药仍然在文字和图像之间密切的物理关系中留下了图片优先系统的痕迹。