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.

2015-04-29

Pliny's Natural History

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Among the new arrivals online at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana on April 29 is a fine Renaissance copy of Pliny's Natural History , ...
2015-04-04

Military technology at the Vatican

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The seven manuscripts digitized and released April 1 by Digita Vaticana include an important 11th-century codex explaining and illustrating ...
2015-03-25

Prudentius and the odd word

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Sometimes we get asked what use old European manuscripts are. The simple answer is that we need them to recover the literature and the histo...
2015-03-24

Ladder to Heaven at the BAV

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Among the more remarkable items to be admire in the 13 codices placed online March 23 by Digita Vaticana is Ross.251 containing the Ladder ...
2015-03-16

The Romance of Ruins

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The 13 digitization jobs uploaded March 16 at Digita Vaticana include four volumes of vedute or landscape drawings by the 18th-century artis...
2015-03-13

Treasures of Urbino

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Here's a list of the latest rush of newly digitized manuscripts at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. This release of 52 items was uplo...
2015-03-10

Older than the Oldest

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After my post Is this the World's Oldest Bound Book? appeared, Cillian O'Hogan, who is the curator of classical and Byzantine studi...
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