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.

2019-01-26

Rose by any Other Name

Among the most glorious picture books in the Vatican Library is the so-called Dioscorides Latino , a bound collection of images of medicina...

2019-01-20

Pair of Compasses

Spare a thought for the hundred generations of people who were taught at school to draw circles with a pair of compasses. With computers to...

2019-01-12

I know that handwriting ...

Now that most of us have almost given up writing by hand, one's admiration grows for those who can recognize from the faults the handwr...

2019-01-05

All the Isidorian Bibles Online

A very special set of medieval bibles is complete at last, thanks to the recent digitization of the Foigny Bible in the French National Lib...

2018-12-22

Under the Knife

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

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

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...

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