Archive

Here are all of the posts on Codex xcix, organized by category (i.e. subject heading) and presented in roughly historic, not temporal, order. Following the entries on a particular subject in the order listed here should give at least a marginally coherent narrative of the topic.

Typographia Historia

The Dawn of Literacy

The Legend of Etana ‧ Cuneiform – ca.2000 BC

Temple of Mentuhotep II ‧ The Hieroglyphs – ca.2000 BC

The Edwin Smith Papyrus ‧ Hieratic – ca.1600 BC

Evolution of the Alphabet

The Serabit el-Khadim Sphinx ‧ Proto-Sinaitic – ca.1800 BC

Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II ‧ Phoenician – ca.500 BC

Nestor’s Cup ‧ The Greek Alphabet – ca.750 BC

Bucchero Rooster ‧ Etruscan – ca.700 BC

The Lapis Niger ‧ Archaic Latin – ca.550 BC

The Roman Letter

The Trajan Inscription ‧ Capitalis Monumentalis – 113 AD

The Scribal Manuscript

The Codex Sinaiticus – 350 AD

Vergilius Vaticanus ‧ Capitalis Rustica – ca.400 AD

The Book of Durrow ‧ The Insular Manuscript – ca.650 AD

The Book of Kells ‧ Insular Majuscule – ca.800 AD

Sacramentaire de Gellone ‧ Carolingian Minuscule – ca.790 AD

Books of Hours – ca.1350+

The Giant Bible of Mainz ‧ Gothic Textura – ca.1453

Incunabula

The Forty-Two Line Bible ‧ Johannes Gutenberg – 1455

Modern Type

A Constructed Roman Alphabet ‧ David Lance Goines on Calligraphy – 1982

Anatomicae

Leonardo’s Notebooks – ca.1492+

De Humani Corporis Fabrica ‧ Andreas Vesalius – 1543

Midwifery Illustrated ‧ Jacques-Pierre Maygrier – 1850

Man in Structure and Function ‧ Fritz Kahn – 1943

Netter on Anatomy ‧ Frank Netter – 1948+

Cartography

Kort over Danmark ‧ Danish National Mapping – 1552+

Everest ‧ Part I – The Early Maps – 1718+

Everest ‧ Part II – The Later Maps – 1955+

Saudi Geological Maps – 1967

The Cartographic Panorama ‧ H. C. Berann – 1954+

Design

The Radio Nurse ‧ Noguchi as Industrial Designer – 1937

Mille Bornes ‧ Arthur Dujardin/Joseph Callennec – 1954

Let’s Ski Tyrol ‧ Mid-Century Travel Ephemera, part I – 1954/55

Let’s Play Twister! ‧ Reyn Guyer, Chuck Foley and Neil Rabens – 1966

The Periodical

Godey’s Lady’s Book – 1857+

Today’s Secretary – 1961/62

The Poster

Ault & Wiborg ‧ Bradley and Art Nouveau in America – 1895+

The Art and History of Illumination ‧ The Ault & Wiborg Poster Book – 1898

Chez Panisse ‧ David Lance Goines on the Poster – 1970+

Bach ‧ David Lance Goines on the Poster – 1973

Illustration

Jeanne d’Arc ‧ Maurice Boutet de Monvel – 1896

Ravielli on Sport ‧ Anthony Ravielli – 1955+

Tips From the Top ‧ Herbert Warren Wind and Ravielli, part II – 1956

The Stars: A New Way to See Them ‧ H. A. Rey – 1952

Hier Apollo 11 ‧ Erich Fuchs – 1969 (20 Jul)

The Ultimate Alphabet ‧ Mike Wilks – 1986+

Weitzman on Steam ‧ David Weitzman – 1987+

A Charley Harper Retrospective

Ford Times ‧ Charley Harper as Illustrator, part I – 1949+

Tin Lizzie & Dinner for Two ‧ Charley Harper as Illustrator, part II – 1955/1958

The Golden Book of Biology ‧ Charley Harper as Illustrator, part III – 1961

Bambi and Childcraft ‧ Charley Harper as Illustrator, part IV – 1963+

Lists & Tables

Hemingway and the Cocktail

The Five Orders

Liturgical Service Books: A Field Guide

Photography

The Daguerreotype

The Lemiare Stereo Daguerreotypes – ca.1852

Daguerreotype View of Cincinnati ‧ Porter and Fontayne – 1848

The Wet Plate

Panoramic Views of Cincinnati – 1848+

The Two Ways of Life ‧ Oscar Rejlander – 1857

The Ambrotype and the Tintype ‧ The Wet-plate Processes – ca.1855+

The Albumen Print

The Carte-de-Visite ‧ Nineteenth Century Portraiture – ca.1854+

Newsboys ‧ The Early Tobacco Card – ca.1890+

Is Marriage a Failure? ‧ The Stereograph in America – 1901

The Dry Plate

Kodak ‧ George Eastman and Popular Photography – 1888

First Flight ‧ The Wright Brothers – 17 Dec 1903

Photojournalism

Evelyn McHale ‧ Robert Wiles – 12 May 1947

Aberfan ‧ Terence Spencer/Marvin Lichtner – 21 Oct 1966

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