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.

2015-12-23

Fishy Letters

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A rare illuminated Merovingian codex, the Vatican Gelasian Sacramentary , is the major new addition among 31 manuscripts brought online at D...
2015-12-16

St George

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The Codex of St George is a missal made at Avignon, France in the early 14th century for Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi (c.1260 - 1341...
2015-12-08

A Costly Petrus Roll

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Last week in New York, Sotheby's sold at auction for $250,000 a parchment roll containing a 13th-century copy of the Compendium of Petr...
2015-12-05

Stemmata in Incunables

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What I have been looking at in recent weeks is how early printers coped with the idea of a stemma without drawing a tree. The period I am l...
2015-12-01

Jesus in a Nutshell

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One of the peculiarities of 15th-century tree diagrams is that the humans are often shown as half-figures emerging from a kind of nutshell....
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2015-11-24

Seneca the Stoic

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Among the 213 manuscripts uploaded November 23 by Digita Vaticana is a copy of Seneca's Epistulae ad Lucilium . I read that Seneca manus...
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