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.

2019-02-23

To Conquer a Castle

Whacko military techniques star in a codex, Urb.lat.1397 , just re-digitized in color at the Vatican Library, including a few hints about h...

2019-02-16

Green Parrots

Around 1450, a talented young German painter showed up in Italy and got work as a miniaturist. We know him solely as Gioacchino di Giovanni...

2019-02-09

Herb Dictionary

The Fabio Chigi collection's Greek Dioscorides, a stunning Renaissance copy of the most famous herbal reference of antiquity, is the st...

2019-02-02

Midget Minstrels

Maximilian I, the German emperor, is famous for adopting print as a means to increase his propaganda reach. His Ehrenpforte , a monumental ...

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...

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