By Ann-Marie Hansen | All good things, as they say, come in threes. One modest volume found in the special collections of the Université Rennes 2, one of our Preserving the World’s Rarest Books partners, shows that this adage holds true in the library. The early modern practice of binding separately printed works together generally … Read more
Since its first volume ten years ago, The Library of the Written Word has established itself as a major force in the world of book historical scholarship. Launched by Brill as a vehicle for the best new research in the field, The Library of the Written Word offers a mix of monographs, commissioned thematic collections, … Read more
By Jamie Cumby and Panagiotis Georgakakis | This week’s post brings together several themes in the sixteenth-century scholarly book world – printing in classical languages, women printers, legal humanism – via a single copy of a work by Emperor Justinian I. This work (USTC 140698) was printed in Paris in 1542 by Charlotte Guillard, one of … Read more