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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

‘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.

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

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