Commenta Bernensia in Lucanum; Adnotationes super Lucanum
A ninth-century Latin manuscript of scholarly commentaries and annotations on Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia, held in a Swiss library, with diagrams and drawings in red ink. The pictures are simple schematic diagrams: concentric rings carrying letters, a walled city with towers and gates, a bridge-like fortification, and a ship. A designer might take from them the rough, hand-drawn energy of early medieval line diagrams, with their letter-filled circles and sparse red and ochre linework on aged parchment.
