Showing posts with label Tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tree. Show all posts
2018-10-01

Baum: An Early Family Tree

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The search for the earliest use of "Baum" in German to describe a stemma continues. Currently the honour seems to reside with He...
2017-09-16

Old Trees

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Early tree diagrams are some of the surprises in the latest batch of Vatican digitizations. One welcome arrival online is a 10th-century tex...
2017-06-30

A "Tree" of Genealogy

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The quest for the first "family tree" has been one of my scholarly interests for years. Readers of this blog will know by now that...
2015-12-05

Stemmata in Incunables

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What I have been looking at in recent weeks is how early printers coped with the idea of a stemma without drawing a tree. The period I am l...
2015-12-01

Jesus in a Nutshell

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One of the peculiarities of 15th-century tree diagrams is that the humans are often shown as half-figures emerging from a kind of nutshell....
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2015-11-11

Erlangen Tree

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Until recently, a celebrated 12th-century manuscript, variously known as the Chronicle of Frutolf or the Chronicle of Ekkehard of Aura (Er...
2015-11-03

Oldest Family Tree

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As part of my book research, I am searching for the oldest family tree. Some time in the 16th century, the idea of dressing up the genealog...
2009-11-24

Diagrams or Stemmata

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A scholarly correspondent has taken me to task over the term "stemmata", saying these figures in the medieval manuscripts are prop...