Visual Element: Page Columns

Image caption: CCCC MS 313 f. 53r. By kind permission of the Master  and Fellows ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Image caption: CCCC MS 161 f. 76r. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows  ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Image caption: CCCC MS 466 p. 9. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows  ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Image caption: CCCC MS 367 f. 91r. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows  ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Image caption: CCCC MS 146 p. 13. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows  ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Image caption: CCCC MS 313 f. 66v. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows  ​of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.  
This folio features mixed columns. For the first five lines, there is one column; from then on, there are three.
This page is an example of a single-column page structure.
An example of a two-column layout.
An example of a three-column layout.
An example of mixed columns; most of the folio is in four columns, except three lines at the top left which span two of the small columns.
Eight filled columns marked out on the page, providing a spatial organization for the attribues assosciated with different things in the first column.