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.

2017-03-27

Ottonian Artistry

Most of the great artists of 10th-century Europe are anonymous. One of them, who goes by the name Master of the Registrum Gregorii , was a l...

2017-03-20

Did Classical Rome Invent the Scala Diagram?

Some weeks ago , this blog reported the first appearance online of a major legal-history manuscript in Rome, the Tractatus Vaticanus or Vat...

2017-03-18

Pretty Portolan

Among at least 25 new manuscripts online in the past week at the Vatican Library is a 16th-century portolan chart attributed to the Mallorca...

2017-03-16

Exposing the Peutinger Diagram

I recently announced a project to study how the late antique Peutinger Diagram was made. This reverse engineering project is comparable to l...

2017-03-11

Capua

The Evangelion of Capua is a celebrated lectionary in Greek that was penned by a monk, Kyriakos the Wretched, in 991 in the town of Capua, s...

2017-03-05

Fake Book

Did you ever hide money in books? I used to as a boy, until I returned a library book with a banknote left inside it as a forgotten bookmark...

2017-02-23

Isocrates Incomplete

The discovery of missing bits of the classics in overlooked manuscripts is one of the more exciting targets of the mass availability of codi...

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