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.

2017-01-26

Tree men

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Among the nearly 4,000 microfilms of manuscripts posted online this week by the Vatican Library, the block from the Barberini collection may...
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2017-01-25

Flemish Hours

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Does the world need another illuminated Book of Hours? These private prayer-books from about 500 years ago are fairly common on the art mark...
2017-01-24

Leonardo da Vinci

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At his death in 1519, Leonardo da Vinci is said to have left 18 notebooks containing his analyses on painting and other topics. Ten of the n...
2017-01-23

Throwback to Microfilm

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In an extraordinary change of policy, the Vatican Library appears to have given up its emphasis on digitally color-scanning its manuscripts ...
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