#manucript

I was wondering if anyone know how to present text messages in a manuscript. I have a few of them and I read somewhere you should underline them but it looks weird. It's pretty urgent for a Creative Writing Paper. I rarely read modern books so I have no idea how it's done. Help pls.

The Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of History and Classics. It publicises all aspects of the Library's work on western manuscripts produced before 1600, including our digitisation and cataloguing projects, exhibitions and publications.

I suppose I’d felt lost for years. Well not technically, I knew I was standing at the bottom of Quay Street at the corner of the Viaduct in downtown Auckland staring out at the boats wondering who had the lifestyle that could afford to own one of those boats. Not knowing why this was my favourite place I looked around me at the backdrop of rowdy bars and busy shoppers, then turned my back on it all and looked out over the water; if you were there at the right time, at that magical time of day when the sun is going down and the light splinters over the boats; for a moment, if only one, a girl who doesn’t know how to be religious can feel a spiritual link. Then when the missing part of your soul can make you feel a rising panic at the dawn of each fresh, interminably long day, you can feel that as lost and as confused as you are there is a hint of how complete some people can seem to be and find a silence inside yourself looking deep into the water hoping to find out who you are. It seemed a strange pace to find myself but it was one of the few places I could find peace.

This Book of Hours, referred to as the Black Hours, is one of a small handful of manuscripts written and illuminated on vellum that is stained or painted black. The result is quite arresting. The text is written in silver and gold, with gilt initials and line endings composed of chartreuse panels enlivened with yellow filigree. Gold foliage on a monochromatic blue background makes up the borders. The miniatures are executed in a restricted palette of blue, old rose, and light flesh tones, with dashes of green, gray, and white. The solid black background is utilized to great advantage, especially by means of gold highlighting. The anonymous painter of the Black Hours is an artist whose style depended mainly upon that of Willem Vrelant, one of the dominant illuminators working in Bruges from the late 1450s until his death in 1481. As in the work of Vrelant, figures in angular drapery move somewhat stiffly in shallowly defined spaces. The men's flat faces are dominated by large noses. "Black Hours," for Rome use. Belgium, Bruges, c. 1470 (MS M.493).