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.

2017-10-11

Their Only Plato

A beautiful 10th-century Italian manuscript containing the Latin commentary by Calcidius on the Timaeus of Plato is a star of this week'...

2017-10-02

Falsigrafia

Making mistakes was part of the scribe's day, so knives were always at the ready to scrape off a duff letter or word. Messing up a diagr...

2017-09-25

Humanist's Astronomy Book

The personal library of the great Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) was scattered after his death. It remains a thing of fa...

2017-09-24

First You Have to Throw It

Traditional philology studies old texts by weighing every word. A colleague mentioned to me yesterday this article: Springer, Matthias . ...

2017-09-16

Old Trees

Early tree diagrams are some of the surprises in the latest batch of Vatican digitizations. One welcome arrival online is a 10th-century tex...

2017-09-07

Fresh Life for Roman Map

The most famous map in the world is the Tabula Peutingeriana , a Roman chart of roads and seas. In 2007, UNESCO placed it on its Memory of ...

2017-09-04

Joy of Geometry

Geometry texts are rarely models of exquisite typography, so it is special to see a truly well-laid-out Latin version of Euclid's Elemen...

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