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Dino-lite imaging of a Hebrew printed book at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Hebrew printed book being examined by a Dino-lite which is emitting a bright blue light.

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…
Hidden Stories team members (left to right) 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 the Arba’ah Turim

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
Watermark depicting a glove, backlit on paper used to print a copy of the Arba’ah Turim.

Hebrew Type Symposium participants printing broadsides at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), April 2024.
Hebrew Type Symposium participants standing behind a printing press that is printing broadsides at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

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

‘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.
Close-up view of ‘Papermaker’s tears’ on the edge of a 15th-c. copy of the Arba'ah Turim manuscript.

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

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.
Detail of a manuscript and writing on parchment with a damaged corner in the bottom right.

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.
Multispectral detail of a Hebrew manuscript fragment.

Leaf of a Hebrew Bible (Tanakh: Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) with geometric micrography, copied in Spain, December 1307 CE / Kislev 5068. Friedberg MSS 5-001, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
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