Images in the Margins

$20.95 at The Getty Museum.

Margot McIlwain Nishimura Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings, called marginalia, are found in the borders of English, French, and…