Marginalia are essentially cartoons that were found in the margins of prayer books and other manuscripts in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when books were bound by hand and the pages had ...

Referred to as marginalia, many of the written doodles are funny and give us a glimpse into the lives of the Medieval people who were carrying out what was probably a very tedious job. Trump Takes ...

Dr Grollemond says the purpose of marginalia has been long debated by medieval art historians. Some say they're satire, others say they demonstrate the ideas of the manuscript, and others say they ...