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Some Notes on the History of the Stemma

A Foreword

• An Introduction

Antiquity

• The Beginnings
• 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
• The Oldest Christian Genealogy
  • Transcript: Genealogia ab Adam usque ad Christum per ordines linearum
  • Transcript: The Integrated Timeline
  • Table: All the Manuscripts (with links to facsimiles)
    • Technical Note: How the Manuscript Became Corrupted
    • Graphic: The Kings After David
    • Technical Note: Anomalies in the Great Stemma
    • Technical Note: Chronography in the Great Stemma
    • Graphic: Great Stemma Timeline
    • Technical Note: The Date of Authorship of the Great Stemma
    • Technical Note: The Recensions
    • Technical Note: The Theology in the Great Stemma

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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