Hidden Stories postdoc Noam Sienna (right) examining marginalia in a 16th-c. printed Hebrew book with co-director of the Footprints project, Marjorie Lehman of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Dino-lite imaging of a Hebrew printed book at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Hidden Stories team members Alexandra Gillespie, Rachel Di Cresce, Melissa Moreton, and Jessica Lockhart visit with Princeton U. Special Collections librarian Gabriel Swift (second from right) and the two-volume set of the early Hebrew printing of…

Watermark depicting a glove, backlit on the 15th-c. paper used to print a copy of the Arba’ah Turim, Istanbul. 2022-0019Q, Princeton UL Special Collections, Princeton

Hebrew Type Symposium participants printing broadsides at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), April 2024.

Kit MacNeil (U. Toronto Massey College) sharing a card printed at the Hebrew Type Symposium, MCBA.

‘Papermaker’s tears’ on the edge of a 15th-c. copy of the Arba'ah Turim, printed by the Ibn Nahmias brothers in Istanbul — the earliest Hebrew printing outside of Europe. ChL1850X, Pierpont Morgan Library, NY.

An 18th-c. Yiddish prayer, hand-set by Noam Sienna using type from the Balinson Collection, Massey College Bibliography Room, University of Toronto.

Detail of a manuscript of the Mishnah on parchment from the Cairo Geniza, which may date to the mid 9th c. CE. Friedberg MSS 9-001, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.

Multispectral detail of a Hebrew manuscript fragment from the Cairo Geniza, imaged by a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Friedberg MSS 9-001, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.