This month's Rare Book of the Month blog by Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) follows the story of BL Add MS 22718, a hand-made copy of a book printed by William Caxton rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/09/10/k...

Keeping Up With the Trevelyans: On Owning (and Loving) Books

Kaila Yankelevich, University of Bristol Why do we own books? What does it mean to own a book? Is the reason utilitarian (we want to access a specific text) or is it all about pleasure? Umberto Eco fa...

Magic spells, a scheming empress and 1 million pagodas – this month's Early Book of the Month blog by Eva-Lotte Gebhardt (Vienna) dives into the intriguing history of one of the world's earliest known printed works: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/t...

The mystery of the Japanese “Hyakumantou Dharani”. Did you know that the earliest preserved print work in the world were magic spells?

Eva-Lotte Gebhardt, University of Vienna It is common knowledge that printing with movable type was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439 and that his invention caused a media revolution that ultimat...

Currently on her secondment with the National Print Museum in Dublin, REBPAFer Melania Marra (Alicante) has been carrying out some work with the museum's extensive archive:

Three happy REBPAFers at the 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society in Aix-en-Provence earlier this week! Congrats to Kaila, Véronique, and Laurie on their fantastic presentations 👏👏👏

Heads up that our very own Laurie Hoeben (Zürich), Véronique George (Bristol), and Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) are currently in Aix-en-Provence for the 27th Congress of the International Arthurian Society @ias_bb! More information here: iascongress2024.org/en/program/

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: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/v...#MSCA#H2021#ResearchImpactEU#REBPAF

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...

Currently on secondment with the brilliant Maggs Bros Ltd in London, our very own REBPAFer Sara D'Amico (University of Alicante) spending quality time with some gorgeous, gorgeous tomes:

Our very own Melissa Bastian will be representing REBPAF at @univienna's annual Institutstagung der Germanistik this coming Mon 3rd June! This in-person conference is open to all – programme & more details here www.germ.univie.ac.at/institutstag...

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. #MSCA#ResearchImpactEU#H2021

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) ...

Our latest blog comes from the University of Zurich (UZH) REBPAF PhD researcher Luca Hollenborg: #MSCA#ResearchImpactEU#H2021

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...