From Treasured Tomes to TikTok Awards: REBPAF at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna It is a cold and windy autumn day in a big city, but those inside the huge, modern glass and steel building are sheltered from the threat of rain. Narrow, seem…

📚 Step into a living city of books with us & find out more about the story of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the history of the book mingles with its future!
Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social !

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A mysterious punctuation mark in Antoine Vérard’s editions? And how hands-on experience with a two-pull common press helped to understand its mystery. Laurie Hoeben, University of Zurich For the last 1.5 years, I have been working on the editio princeps of Arthurian romances printed for the Parisian, 15th/16th- century éditeur-libraire Antoine Vé…

Het mysterie van de zwarte spaties...
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Various Hands, Various Additions: Beginning, Noting, and Repair by Brenda Luies, University of Galway Going into special collections to consult a text without digital images available can lead to unexpected results and when seeing the text for the first time. My o...

New on our blog: Brenda Luies (University of Galway) examines some curious additions and repairs made to a copy of the Polychronicon held in the National Library of Ireland:

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A Medieval Error 404: Page Not Found in a 16th-Century Edition of ‘Karel Ende Elegast’ by Nicky Voorneveld, University of Antwerp In the prologue to a Dutch translation of Josephus Flavius' Ηistoria Ioudaikou polemou pros Rōmaious (English: History of the Jewish War against the Romans) ...

Here's an update of some of our activities and blogs. Our first REBPAF "Early Book of the Month" blog post is by Nicky Voorneveld at the University of Antwerp, who writes on a 16th-century print error.
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Why would a humanist print a ‘Dark Age’ gardening poem and what we can learn from dedicatory letters Luca Hollenborg, University of Zurich (UZH) Figure 1: Title page of 1510 Vienna edition; Figure 2: Title page of 1512 Nuremberg edition The humanist Joachim Vadian (1583/84-1551), who came from St. Ga...

Our latest blog comes from the University of Zurich (UZH) REBPAF PhD researcher Luca Hollenborg:

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The Annotated Books Online (ABO), A Digital Archive of Early Modern Annotated Books by Véronique George, University of Bristol Looking at different early prints of the narrative of Les Quatre Fils Aymon, my speciality in our REBPAF-network, I encountered some nice annotations and doo...

Véronique George from the University of Bristol writes about her journey, findings and best-practice recommendations regarding the Annotated Books Online digital archive

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An occult tome in the West of Ireland: a first-edition copy of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s ‘De occulta philosophia’ (1533) in the University of Galway’s Special Collections Ian Wong, University of Galway “Boy, give me the book and I will give you everything you desire. Power! Wealth! Women!” —Winifred, Hocus Pocus (1993) The Special Collections room here in the Universit...

Our second in the blog series "Early Book of the Month" by Ian Wong, "An occult tome in the West of Ireland: a first-edition copy of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s 'De occulta philosophia' (1533) in the University of Galway’s Special Collections

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