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.

2011-03-09

Greek Place-Names

An interesting blog post from last year by Nick Nicholas on old Greek names for a stretch of coast that is much in the news at the moment. ...

2011-03-08

New Revisions

So we now have two new pages on the site: one deals in more detail with Eusebius and the likely debt of the Great Stemma to his Chronologic...

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 ...

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