About Idiotes
Every manuscript in this house is free. The idiōtēs — the private citizen, the unlettered layman — was antiquity's word for the person the academies forgot. This library is his.
The catalogue is arranged as a synchronoptic chart, after the great nineteenth-century charts of history: time runs left to right on an honest ruler, and civilizations stack above one another only where they truly overlapped. Read down a column and you read the same year everywhere on earth that a pen was moving.
Every manuscript here is scanned from the original and free to read. No paywall, no account required, no exceptions.
What is coming
Accounts, and with them the margins: threads anchored to a passage, where readers can argue with each other — and with the dead — in the white space beside the text, as readers always have.