Macro-Typography

Brings news on research into the history of text presentation. Recent posts deal with my discovery of the world's oldest data visualization, the 5th-century Great Stemma. This blog also offers a way to comment on the www.piggin.net website and communicate with the author, Jean-Baptiste Piggin.

2019-06-08

Festival of Visualization

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A University of Bologna textbook precisely datable to 1430 contains key texts in mathematics and astronomy in Italian and Latin. The Vatica...
2019-06-01

Ascension Week

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Ascension Week seems to have slowed the output of the Vatican Library's digitization programm. My unofficial list contains only 16 item...
2019-05-25

Bitumen Boat

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Two boats with sails and oars are depicted in the Madaba Mosaic Map , a miraculously preserved sixth-century giant floor map of Palestine. ...
2019-05-18

Crusader Elite

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A post two years ago highlighted records in the Vatican Library illuminating the doomed attempt to establish a Christian kingdom in Palest...
2019-05-11

Rosy-cheeked bishop

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One of the Vatican's finest manuscripts of the Decretrum Gratiani, a great collection of laws, has just been digitized. The high resolu...
2019-05-04

Fortuna

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The fortunes of  some manuscripts take them to the very brink of destruction, as we see with a Neapolitan part-bible,  Vat.lat.8183 , digit...
2019-04-27

At Full Tilt

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Among the well-loved old books digitized in the past week by the Vatican Library is a missale plenum of the late 10th or early 11th century...
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