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.

2018-12-22

Under the Knife

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Medieval surgery was, by all accounts, painful for the patient. One of the newest Vatican manuscripts online contains Gerard of Cremona...
2018-12-15

Tiro's Secret

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Tironian notes formed a medieval shorthand system which made life easier for the writers, and much harder for us modern readers. The script...
2018-12-08

Venn Diagram

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One of the early appearances of what we nowadays call a Venn diagram is in the Ars musice , a tract on musical harmony by an anonymous medi...
2018-12-01

Down Time in Goa

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The Italian nobleman Pietro della Valle was one of the most remarkable of all Renaissance men: a composer, a linguist, an acute diarist, ...
2018-11-27

Biggest Book in the Vatican

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The biggest book in the Vatican Library, a celebrated bilingual Hebrew and Aramaic manuscript dated to 1294 and containing the whole Bible,...
2018-11-18

Layer Upon Layer

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For about 700 years, an epic poem in Latin about the Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey...
2018-11-11

Endpapers

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Endpapers and flyleaves are always worth a look when a Vatican manuscript arrives online. One item this week, a 14th-century book of canon ...
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