Colophon

This site is written in Org-mode and built to plain HTML with Emacs — no frameworks, no JavaScript, no trackers, and nothing fetched from anyone else’s server. The pages are small on purpose and should load on anything.

The type is served from here, not borrowed from a font network. The commentary is typed; the psalms are set in a blackletter textura, opened by an illuminated initial; the notes in the margin run in a different hand, and sometimes a different ink, as marginal notes always did. The scraps, for their part, are letters practiced on the backs of broken pots. The page is a warm off-white, because paper never was pure white.

Typefaces — self-hosted, nothing borrowed at read-time:

• TT2020, by Fredrick Brennan — the typewriter commentary (license).
• Missaali, by Tommi Syrjänen — the textura psalms and their Lombardic initials (license).
• Caveat, by Pablo Impallari — the hand in the margins (license).
• Cardo and EB Garamond set other quotations, where a reader has them installed.
• 衡山毛筆フォント (Kouzan Mouhitsu), by the calligrapher 青柳衡山 — the brush kaisho for Japanese psalms; free for any use, by the courtesy of Musashi System.
• Yuji Boku, by Kinuta Font Factory (OFL) — the Japanese brush in the margins.
• Oradano明朝GSRR (Oradano Mincho), by 内田明 — Japanese in the typed commentary, digitized from Meiji-era Tsukiji foundry type with its wear kept; free by the author’s grant.
• GNU FreeMono — Greek in the typed commentary, as the Courier lineage typed it through the polytonic century (GPL, with font exception).
• Anaktoria, by George Douros — Greek in the margins: the grecs du roi, cut after the hand of Angelos Vergikios, scribe to François I; free for any use by the author’s grant.
• GFS Didot, by the Greek Font Society — Greek in quoted scripture (license).
• Shippori Mincho, by FONTDASU (OFL) — Japanese in quoted matter.

Corrections and correspondence are welcome by email.