This summer, St Andrews began contributing information about its earliest printed books to CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula project. This project, initiated and directed by… Read More »MEI Internship Project Begins: a 16th century German binding mystery solved!
This week’s binding feature is one of four incunabula held in the George Hay Forbes Collection. This week, as I was wrapping up cataloguing of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 40: a stunning 16th century pigskin and medieval manuscript half binding
This week’s binding gem is hard to miss and it is in the queue to be recatalogued fully in the next few weeks, but I… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 27: The biggest incunabula on our shelves
Large 17th centry Saints’ Lives bound in blind rolled pigskin with a Monastic inscription This week’s binding gem comes from one of the greatest untapped… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 23
Three 16th century portrait bindings This week’s post highlights the bindings of three 16th century books, two printed in Basel and the other printed in… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 17
