Dragonfly rendering of an early printed book using microCT. Image: Jessica Lockhart

A Dino-Lite digital microscope’s ultraviolet and near infrared settings reveal a repair made to an early printed copy of the Arba’ah Turim (Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Friedberg 00131). Photo: Jessica Lockhart

Microscopic examination of inclusions in the paper of a single-sheet devotional print from Dunhuang (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 927.24). Photo: Jessica Lockhart 

Frontispiece at Sūrat al-Ḥamd (Q. 1), fols 1v-2r. c. 1750-1850. Copyist ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿUmar al-Nawfalī, 4 Muḥarram1245/ 28 June 1829, Faza, Pate Island (Kenya). Ink on laid paper. AS:008. Image courtesy of Imam Nour Al Din Al Salimi…