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.

2016-11-24

Codex Bembinus Online

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Two of the most famous codices at the Vatican Library arrived online November 24. One, the Codex Bembinus, Vat.lat.3226 , was made in late a...
2016-11-22

Digital Humanities

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The introduction to my text-archaeology project has just been revised, and now I need your input on how I could make it even better. The sit...
2016-11-21

Eusebius Online

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A 15th-century manuscript of the Chronological Canons of Eusebius of Caesarea in Jerome's Latin is the great prize in the latest round ...
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2016-11-19

Fold Out the Flaps

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An intriguing compendium of astronomical writings dated to about 1450 and now at the Vatican includes several of these fold-out-the-flaps fe...
2016-11-17

Carpeted with Notes

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Yet another late-antique parchment book has emerged from its dark archive as an internet treasure for all to read this week: the 6th-century...
2016-11-14

Now It's the Vatican Terence

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One of the most sumptuous picture books of late antiquity was handed to a team of scribes and artists under King Louis the Pious in France i...
2016-11-12

Cicero Palimpsest

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Of all the world's palimpsests, probably the most famous is that at the Vatican Library which recovered for us much of the Roman politic...
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