Codex 99

Here are all of the extant posts on Codex 99, organized by subject and presented in roughly historic, not temporal, order:

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; Biblia Latina ‧ Peter Schöffer and Gotico-Antiqua – 1462; The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ‧ Francesco Colonna – 1499
Modern Type: A Constructed Roman Alphabet ‧ David Lance Goines on Calligraphy – 1982

Anatomicae

De Humani Corporis Fabrica ‧ Andreas Vesalius – 1543

Tabulae Anatomicae ‧ Julius Casserius – 1626+

Midwifery Illustrated ‧ Jacques-Pierre Maygrier – 1850

Netter on Anatomy ‧ Frank Netter – 1936+

Cartography

Kort over Danmark ‧ Danish National Mapping – 1552+

Everest ‧ Part I – The Early Maps – 1718+

Everest ‧ Part II – The Later Maps – 1955+

The Grand Canyon ‧ Part I – The Colorado River Maps – 1858+

The Grand Canyon ‧ Part II – The Bright Angel Maps – 1903+

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

Design

The William S. Merrell Co. ‧ Electrotypes on Drugs – ca.1907; Tests for Colour-Blindness ‧ Shinobu Ishihara – 1917+; The Radio Nurse ‧ Noguchi as Industrial Designer – 1937; Mille Bornes ‧ Arthur Dujardin/Joseph Callennec – 1954; Lego ‧ A Natural History of Package Design – 1947+; Let’s Ski Tyrol ‧ Mid-Century Travel Ephemera, part I – 1954/55; Let’s Play Twister! ‧ Reyn Guyer, Chuck Foley and Neil Rabens – 1966; Oh-Wah-Ree ‧ The 3M Bookshelf Games – 1962+
The Periodical: Godey’s Lady’s Book – 1857+; Today’s Secretary – 1961/62; Eros ‧ Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin, part I – 1962; Avant Garde ‧ Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin, part II – 1968
The Poster: Gismonda ‧ Alphonse Mucha and Sarah Bernhardt – 1894+; F. Champenois ‧ Alphonse Mucha, part II – 1896+; 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

: The Rhinoceros – 1515+; Jeanne d’Arc ‧ Maurice Boutet de Monvel – 1896; The Model ‧ Fritz Willis, Walter Foster and the American Pin-up – 1947+; The Stars: A New Way to See Them ‧ H. A. Rey – 1952; Ravielli on Sport ‧ Anthony Ravielli – 1955+; Tips From the Top ‧ Herbert Warren Wind and Ravielli, part II – 1956; 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+; The Animal Kingdom ‧ Charley Harper as Illustrator, part V – 1968

Lists & Tables

Photography

The Daguerreotype: The Lemiare Stereo Daguerreotypes ‧ The French Daguerreotype – 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+; Cabinet Card Backmarks ‧ Late Victorian Advertising – 1870+; Newsboys ‧ The Early Tobacco Card – ca.1890+; Is Marriage a Failure? ‧ The Stereograph in America – 1901
The Dry Plate: Animal Locomotion ‧ Eadweard Muybridge – 1887; Kodak ‧ George Eastman and Popular Photography – 1888; First Flight ‧ The Wright Brothers – 17 Dec 1903; The Silver Gelatin Print ‧ Twentieth Century Portraiture – ca.1915+
Color Processes: The Autochrome ‧ NG and the Autochrome in America – 1914+; Kodachrome ‧ The American Vacation – 1934+
Photojournalism: Pie Town ‧ Russell Lee on Early Kodachrome for the FSA – 1940; Evelyn McHale ‧ Robert Wiles – 12 May 1947; Aberfan ‧ Terence Spencer/Marvin Lichtner – 21 Oct 1966

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