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I recently saw this old manuscript with the text arranged in a very curious way, and I wanted to know if it could be replicated. The text is from Accursius' Magna Glossa, a commentary on Emperor Justinian's Pandects.

It consists of two columns of text––Justinian's Laws––at the center of the page, easily recreated with twocolumn.

What is special is that then the explanation/commentary of these laws consists of two columns in the margins that wrap around the central main text of the laws, above, below, and on the sides (see picture attached for clarity).

Margin notes are no problem, and can be added either with the \marginnote package or through the default \marginpar command. I am, however, completely clueless as to how to make margin notes configured into two continuous columns that wrap around the main text.

Anyone have any ideas?

Main center text (in two columns) surrounded by margin commentary (also in two columns, the right continuing the text written on the left).

Joel Dacasa
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  • have a look at this post ```https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/56190/197451 – js bibra Nov 11 '19 at 00:48
  • Interesting! Unfortunately, it does not have the answer I am looking for, but it does have information that I have found pretty useful. In the end, I think I will try to create a standard two-column text and insert a separate floating figure of text in the middle. – Joel Dacasa Nov 20 '19 at 19:58

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