Folios IIv –IIIr of the Codex Amiatinus present one of the most fascinating architectural diagrams of the early Middle Ages—not least because there has been a large degree of debate over quite what the Amiatinus image depicts [fig. 1]. 1 Consequently this diagram raises some interesting questions about what medieval architectural representation was. Architecture and architectural language appear throughout early English literature in both Latin and the vernacular; pictorial depictions of architecture were not uncommon either, although the Codex Amiatinus provides one of the earliest surviving examples. A well-established body of scholarship on this architectural representation has sought to plumb the depths of the available materials which clearly had a significance far beyond simply depicting physical buildings and structures.2