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.

Showing posts with label Isidore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isidore. Show all posts
2019-01-05

All the Isidorian Bibles Online

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A very special set of medieval bibles is complete at last, thanks to the recent digitization of the Foigny Bible in the French National Lib...
2014-11-02

Floreffe Bible now Online

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The only way that we know that a graphic artist – or studio – in the fifth century CE drew a magnificent chart of biblical history and genea...
2013-01-28

School Stemma

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A couple of days ago I published a post about an adaptation of the Great Stemma that appears in the bibles of Parc, Floreffe, Foigny and Bu...
2013-01-27

Window into the Past

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Until now I have paid very little attention to a derivative version of the Great Stemma which is found in four bible manuscripts of the 12th...
2010-11-13

Translation Finished

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Another marker passed: the translation of the Great Stemma into English is complete. Bar a few unintelligible passages where I may have mess...
2010-10-01

Peeling the Layers

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I am picking another layer of skin off the Great Stemma at last. Yolanta Zaluska, in her study of the document, was the first to point out t...
2009-10-01

Start of the History Section

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The Macro-Typography website starts a new history section today. For several months I have been conducting research on the early history of...
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