The text is freely wrapped around the images

The layout or format of the pages of ancient Egyptian scrolls can look surprisingly "modern", suggesting that the relationship of text and image remained unchanged for thousands of years. In these three examples of The Papyrus of Ani, we see

	the image in a separate box with text in columns
	the image as full page historiated initial

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See an Arabic illuminated manuscript

See a 15th century illuminated Book of Hours