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.

2014-10-27

Digital Reviews

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Getting manuscript documents (and early printings) online in a form that is electronically readable is only half the battle: keeping it acce...
2014-09-16

Line-by-line Poetry

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A  nice piece in The New York Times this week points to the increasing traction that electronic formatting for poetry is gaining at small pr...
2014-05-04

Translating Nonsense

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How does one translate nonsense that has arisen when scribes fall into a doze and begin to write drivel? There is a celebrated passage in th...
2014-04-30

The Old Latin

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Readers of this blog will recall that the names of many biblical characters in the Great Stemma are spelled in the fashion of the earliest L...
2014-03-21

Vatican Library to be digitized ... again

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These stories about the Vatican Library - the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana or BAV - digitizing its manuscript collection are starting to g...
2014-03-20

British Library Mappaemundi

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More digital mappaemundi are due soon, from the British Library website. I haven't posted about digital maps since 2010  but have been d...
2014-03-09

A Short Chronographic Work

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We are about three months away from seeing the first-ever critical edition of the Ordo Annorum Mundi , a minor chronographic work that has n...
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