326 INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to figures.

abbreviations, 130,131
ABC News, 244
Act of Union, 154

Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), 79,81
Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Smol¬
lett), 137
advertisements:
asterisks and daggers in, 114
manicules in, 183-84
ae-ligature (æ), 35
alazon, 212

Alcuin of York, 13,44-45,69
Aldus Manutius, 70,174Я, 245
Alexandria, 100
library at, 5,98,122,188,245
Mouseion at, 98,100
Americana (typeface), 29,30,31,34,35
American Heritage Dictionary, 48,50
American Standard Code for Infor¬
mation Interchange, see ASCII
American Typefaces of the Twentieth
Century (McGrew), 30
American Type Founders (ATF),
29-30,34.35.38
Ampère, André-Marie, 76
ampersand (&), x, 12, 59-77,68,70,74,

77,93
etymology of, 76-77
amphora Capitolina, 88
amphorae, 88,89

Ancient Writing and Its Influence (Ull-
man), 86
anfora (@), 88,89,89, 90
Anglo-Dutch war, second (1665-67), 154
anthropomorphism, 167
Antonelli, Paola, 94-95
Apology Against Jerome (Rufinus),

Ï94-95

aposiopesis, 145

apostrophe 0,122,161,187-88,200
Apple, 21,106
arabesque ornaments, 182
Aristarchus of Samos, 98
Aristarchus of Samothrace, 99-100,
101,108,122,188,189

Aristophanes of Byzantium, 5-6,7,11,
36,98,99,107,122,147,148
Aristotle, 149

“Armstrong, Best of His Time, Now
with an Asterisk” (Vecsey), n8n
Armstrong, Lance, іі8я
Army, U.S., FIELDATA code of, 93
arobase (@), 88,90

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects
Agency), 79,81
ARPANET, 79,81-82,84-85
Arpinum, 60
arroba (@), 88,90
ars dictaminis, 147
Ars Signorum (Dalgarno), 214
Art Direction, 30
artificial language, 213-14
Art of Computer Programming, The
(Knuth), 138
Art of Grammar, The (Tékhnë Gramma-
tiké) (Dionysius Thrax), 5,122
Arts and Crafts movement, 17,18
ASCII, 53,94,163-64
Asplund, Lauren, 53-54
Asterisci (Luther), 105-6
asterisk (*), x, 93,97-119,103,109,110,
ИЗ, 245
in advertisements, 114
Aristarchus’s use of, 100,122,188
birth dates marked by, 97
in ellipsis, 153
footnotes and, 97,108-14
in Gregorian chant and psalmody,

97.106
Origen’s use of, 102
in sports records, 115-16,116, n8n
on telephone keypads, 53
Trudeau’s use of, 117,118
asterisk, double, aligned vertically
(*), 118
asteriskos (5Й), 100,172
asterism (***), 118
AT&T, 82
Bell Telephone Laboratories of,
49-56,57
Athens, Ottoman conquest of, 177
Atlantic, 153

@ symbol, 79-95,84,89, 245

INDEX 327

“at the rate of’ meaning of, 86-87,
88-90
in e-mail, 82-86,229
names of, 87-88

as symbolizing modernity, 94-95
on typewriters, 91,92
Atticus, 62

Augustine, Saint, 191-92
Austen, Jane, 156-57
avoirdupois pound, 47

Babbage, Charles, difference machine

of, 133.134,135

backslash (\), 230Я

Baker, Nicolson, 114,151,152«, 153,164
Ballard, J. G., 113-14
Baltimore Sun, 223-24
Baltimore Sunday Sun, 237
Barcelona, Spain, 94
Barchusen, Johann Conrad, 43
Barney’s Version (Richler), 114
Baron Cohen, Sacha, 211Я
Barth,John, 164-65
Bartle Bogle Hegarty, 229
Baseball Hall of Fame, 116
Basic English, 207-8,213«

Bazin, Hervé, 219-21,234

Bell, John, 65 n-66n

Bell Telephone Laboratories,

49-56,57
Bembo, Bernardo, 174
Bembo, Cardinal Pietro, 174Я
Bernhardt, Marcel (Alcanter de
Brahm), 217-19,218, 221,234
Bewick, Thomas, 183
Bibles, 12,71,103, no
“Bishop’s,” in
“Great,” 180-81

Gutenberg’s edition of, 72,105Я, 127,
128,197
Origen and, 101-3
Vulgate, 109
Bicentennial, US, 29
Bierce, Ambrose, 236,237
Big Caslon (typeface), 21,106
Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code (BCDIC), 93
birth dates, asterisk as symbol for, 97

“Bishop’s Bible,” hi
bithorpes, 145Я

blackletter, 36,69,71-72,71,74-75.

129,130,133,142
blasphemy, ellipsis and, 153,157-58
Blickensderfer 5 typewriter, 92
blind P, see pilcrow
Blunt, Anthony, 228
Boekenbal, 221-22
Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN),
79,82

Bonds, Barry, 114-16,116,118
Book of Common Worship, 22
Book of Kells, 68
books:
colophons of, 181
incunabula period of, 181
readers’ annotation of, 168,170-72,
178-79
in Renaissance, 168-72
scholarly annotation of, 108-11,109,
no, 168; see also footnotes
title pages of, 181
Booth, Wayne C., 217-18,221
Boston Globe, 117
boustrophedon writing, 4,4, 6
Bracton, Henry, 1$

Brahm, Alcanter de (Marcel Bern¬
hardt), 217-19,218, 221,234
Bringhurst, Robert, 48-49,50,97,
142,204Я
Brut Chronicle, 148
Buivenga, Jos, 21,106
Buoncompagno da Signa, 147
Bush, George W., 116-18,118
Butterfield, C. W., 183
Byzantine Empire, 45

С (for capitulum), 13-14, Ц, 16,22,41
cachinnation, note of, 236,237
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 62,64
Caesarea, 101
“Callico” Sarah, 155
Cambridge Companion to Martin
Luther, 105 я
capital letters, see majuscules
Cardo (typeface), 222
Carlsen, Ralph, 55