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.

2010-12-27

Statistics

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I've recently completed collating the fifth and last recension of the Great Stemma, found in the Urgell and San Juan manuscripts and it ...
2010-12-06

False Alert

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A check today in the Faider and Sint Jan catalog of pre-War Tournai manuscripts reveals that the manuscript I blogged about last week did ...
2010-11-30

Mount Seir

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I have completed one of the more obscure analyses of the Great Stemma: a tabulation of the passage dealing with the chieftains of Mount Sei...
2010-11-29

Intriguing Lead

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This post has been superseded . Further investigation showed the intriguing lead led nowhere. The Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta by Anton ...
2010-11-17

Bamberg Cassiodorus

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The State Library at Bamberg has recently digitized the stemma diagrams from its splendid codex Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Patr.61 and pl...
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...
2010-11-06

Decoding the San Millán Manuscript

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A tricky decoding job with the San Millán stemma seems almost complete, thanks to Brepols and their Library of Latin Texts (LLTA), an online...
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