A quire signature (upper left) in Arabic script in a Hebrew parchment manuscript containing the ga'onic text Halakhot Pesuqot (tentatively dated c. 900 CE). Fisher 3-002, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.

Diagonal ink mark in the center created by inadvertent printing of a ‘fallen type’ which provides information about the size of type used, the print run, and corrections made by the printers of this early Hebrew press. Pentateuch with Rabbinic…

Hebrew type symposium participants, including Kit MacNeil (U. Toronto Massey College) (RT), print broadsides at the interactive printing workshop, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis.

Hidden Stories team member Melissa Moreton joins Global Judaica postdoctoral scholar Noam Sienna at the Hebrew type exhibition featuring the work of modern letterpress printers, MCBA, Minneapolis.

Single-sheet woodblock print depicting Avalokiteśvara with dedicatory inscription, sponsored by Cao Yuanzhong and carved by Lei Yanmei. Guiyijun period (848/851–1030/1036), dated 947. From Mogao Cave 17, Dunhuang. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de…

A fragment of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock print in which the image block is printed at centre, with roughly symmetrical margins of 5–6 cm around each edge – one of them created by the addition of a vertical strip of reused paper…

A view under optical microscope revealing inclusions in the paper fibres of one of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock prints (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 927.24). Photo: Jessica Lockhart

Paper painting depicting seated Buddha triad with standing Bodhisattvas and donor, with hanging tabs added; mounting holes in upper and lower margins. Guiyijun period (848/851–1030/1036), tenth century. From Mogao Cave 17, Dunhuang. Paris,…

Engineers Mei Li and Aly Abdelaziz from Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group (University of Toronto) discuss a book’s structure visualized using microCT. Photo: Matt Volpe

Parchment collagen fibrils in the Bozec lab (University of Toronto). Photo: Jessica Lockhart