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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: Reconstruction of the Great Stemma Archetype
  • Table: All the Manuscripts (with links to facsimiles)
  • Appendices
• 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

• Medieval Stemmata
  • Graphic: The Stemma of Cunigunde (> 1002)
  • Graphic: Real-Life Demonstration of Consanguinity (1043)
  • Graphic: Amiatinus Stemma (circa 1050)
  • Graphic: Lambert's Stemma (< 1122)
  • Graphic: The Stemma of Hildebrand and the Property of Isola (> 1144)
  • Table: Petrus Pictaviensis and his Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (ca. 1185) (with links to facsimiles)
• Transition to Print

Aftermatter

• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Published Stemmata
• Archived Versions of Selected Site Pages

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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