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.

2010-09-20

Mappaemundi

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The Digital Mappaemundi Project contains a very useful English translation of the geographical text from the Historiarum Adversum Paganos L...
2010-09-12

Diplomatic Editions of Diagrams

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I've so far looked in vain for scholars' ideas on how to create what one might describe as a "diplomatic" edition of a dia...
2010-09-11

Old Vellum and Bookselling

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A learned article by Richard Rouse and Charles McNelis appeared a decade ago. North African literary activity is subtitled "A Cyprian...
2010-08-24

Setback or Progress

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After weeks of combing through the Liber Genealogus , including creating my own fully keyed versions of both Frick's and Mommsen's v...
2010-06-17

Lay Historians

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A couple of inspiring accounts of lay historians have just appeared. The story of Tony Clunn, who discovered the site of the Battle of the T...
2010-05-14

Liber Genealogus

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Göttingen University Library in Germany has a digital version of Paul de Lagarde's 1892 edition of the Lucca Cathedral manuscript of the...
2010-05-06

A History of the Timeline

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An impressive new illustrated history of timelines has just appeared in the United States. Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline ...
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