Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture
Bruno Reudenbach
The introductory pages, which in early medieval gospel books are placed at the beginning of a gospel, often stage an antithesis enigmatic calligraphy and clear legibility. As visual reflection on writing script this juxtaposition is related to hermeneutic Holy Scripture. initial pages particular demonstratively break rules readable linearly ordered script. They do not require reading usual sense, follows succession words. ‘script-images’ they must be contemplated by simultaneous consideration, that should reveal meaning behind material letters. Their illegibility can understood as cue for transition from meditative contemplatively seeing purely intelligible.
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