>>96617955
Picrel is an autistic way to present this but I didn't want to clog the thread with tangentially related posts. The left is my own calligraphy with space for a block letter where illustration/illumination would go. I don't have any examples of my awful art because I used them as scrap for more calligraphy practice lol.

On the right is another good idea I remembered for your codex, some manuscripts had "speech bubbles" with the speaker holding what they were saying in a scroll, or an angel holding it above their head. This gospel has the apostles asking "Mary, what did you see along the way?" and might be a good way to incorporate text into your record without having to fully write things out (or contextualize an event that is hard to draw)