Proem A word of welcome
Welcome to my codex. I write about the things I build, the books I keep returning to, and the city whose citadel watches over this page. Pull up a stool by the scriptorium window.
Tabula فهرس Contents
The latest folios, newest first.
- Writing Your First Foliofolio ivA practical guide to adding articles to this codex — where the files live, what goes in the frontmatter, and how footnotes turn into marginalia.
- في مديح الحبرfolio iiiتأمّلٌ قصير في الحبر والصبر، وفي النسّاخ، وفي مكتبةٍ غابت عن طرابلس ولم يغب ذكرها.
- On Stipplingfolio iiHow the frontispiece behind these pages was drawn — a painting, some ninety thousand dots, and an old idea about where each one should sit.
- The Citadel on Mount Pilgrimfolio iA fortress raised to starve a city of scholars, a count who died in its shadow, and a name that outlived them all — the twelfth-century story behind the hill above Tripoli.
Annals Chronicle
A short chronicle.
2026
This codex is opened
The first folios of this website are ruled, inked and bound.
2024
A milestone worth recording
Replace these entries with the moments that shaped your work.
2021
Another chapter
A role, a project, a move, a book — whatever belongs in your annals.
2018
Where it began
The first entry of your chronicle.
Epistolae Letters
Letters are welcome — write, and I shall answer.