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.

2011-02-17

Ordo Annorum Mundi

A new page , dealing with the Ordo Annorum Mundi , has now been placed on the Macro-Typography website. It seems to me that the OAM may be ...

2011-02-16

The Vetus Latina Hispana of Ayuso

In 1953, Teófilo Ayuso Marazuela published the first volume of his Vetus Latina Hispana . It was an ambitious project, presumably with gove...

2011-01-19

A Latin Counterpart to Eusebius?

Six years ago, Roger Pearse led a magnificent distributed effort to create an English translation of the Chronological Canons of Eusebius. ...

2011-01-02

Léon Abbreviations

The great Léon bible known as the Codex Legionensis or Leg 2 (to distinguish it from Leg 3 , a copy made 100 years later, and Leg 1 , also ...

2010-12-27

Statistics

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

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

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...

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