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Notes on the History of the Stemma

A Foreword

• An Introduction

Antiquity

• The Beginnings
• New: Oxford Paper on the Great Stemma (MS Word file)
• The Oldest Christian Infographic, circa 400
  • Graphic Rendering: Reconstruction of the Great Stemma Archetype
  • Table: All the Manuscripts (with links to facsimiles)
  • Tabulated Transcript 1: Genealogia ab Adam usque ad Christum per ordines linearum
  • Tabulated Transcript 2: Families Not Kin with Christ
  • Tabulated Transcript 3: The Integrated Timeline
  • Tabulated Transcript 4: The Interpolations
    • Technical Note: The Scholarship to Date
    • Technical Note: The Recensions
    • Technical Note: The Joachimite Theory
    • Technical Note: The Theology in the Great Stemma
    • Technical Note: Comparison With the Liber Genealogus
      • Related: The Liber Genealogus Text
    • Technical Note: Using Traverse Order in the Investigation
    • Technical Note: Chronography 1: Introduction
      • Graphic: The Timeline Reconstructed
    • Technical Note: Chronography 2: The Eusebius Layer
    • Technical Note: Chronography 3: The Hippolytus Layer
    • Technical Note: Chronography 4: Uncertain Material
    • Technical Note: Association With the Ordo Annorum Mundi
    • Technical Note: The Roman Kings List
    • Reconstruction Procedure 1: The Kings of Judah
      • Graphic: The Kings After David
    • Reconstruction Procedure 2: The Horrite Chiefs
    • Reconstruction Procedure 3: At Attempt to Find the Original Shape of the Clan Sub-Stemmata
      • Graphic: The Epsilon Manuscript in the Raw
    • Technical Note: The Date of Authorship of the Great Stemma, A Summary
• Boethius, circa 520
  • Graphic: Porphyry Stemma
• Cassiodorus, circa 562
  • Table: All the Cassiodorus Stemmata (with links to facsimiles)
    • Technical Note: Reading the Table
    • Technical Note: Remaking the Stemma of Augustine
  • Graphic: Issues of Fact and Law; Rhetorical Argumentation
  • Graphic: Aristotelean Philosophy; Arithmetic
  • Graphic: Augustine's View of Scripture
• Isidore, before 636
  • Graphic: The Stemma and the Matrix
    • Technical Note: Reconstructing Isidore's Example

In Draft

• Transition to Print

Aftermatter

• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Published Stemmata

Discussion and Blog

• The Macro-Typography Blog

Introduction

Poetry

Footnotes

Glosses

Deeds

History

Images: • Cassiodorus Ms 1 • Cassiodorus Ms 2 • Cassiodorus Ms 3

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