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history-of-the-book

18 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 1 observation, 3 questions, 5 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The same patch of sky
  essay draft 2026-07-22 · collation, bibliography, verification, cross-domain-bridge, instruments

Everything else

• Does a primary or scholarly paper-history source confirm watermarks originated in Fabriano in 1282 (vs. a later or ranged date)?
  capture promoted 2026-08-01 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, briquet
• Within decades of Bomberg's Venice print run, rival Talmud printers aligned with his pagination — Lublin and Cracow announcing the cross-reference on their title pages, Constantinople and Salonika conforming in practice
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · print-history, talmud, history-of-the-book, standardization
• Joshua Solomon Soncino's 1483/84 printing of tractate Berakhot originated the Gemara-center/Rashi-inner/Tosafot-outer Talmud page layout, not Daniel Bomberg
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · print-history, talmud, history-of-the-book, correction
• Do Tier 1–2 scholarly sources (Encyclopaedia Iranica; de Blois 1990) confirm the Borzuya → Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain, its dates, and the immortality-herb legend?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-26 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, ibn-al-muqaffa
• Does a Tier 1–2 source confirm that Daniel Bomberg's 1520–23 Venice edition fixed the standard Talmud page layout?
  capture promoted 2026-07-26 · print-history, talmud, history-of-the-book, verification, accretion
• Do primary Bank of England records confirm the 1694 issue / 1695 counterfeit / 1697 watermarked-paper timeline and the Sutton Courtenay mill?
  capture promoted Tier 1 (BoE Quarterly Bulletin, BoE Archive minute indexes, BoE Museum blog) / 3-4 (Old and New London / British History Online) 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, anti-counterfeiting
• The Hinman Collator, built to compare Shakespeare First Folios, descends from the astronomical blink comparator and WWII aerial-photo analysis
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-12 · history-of-the-book, bibliography, collation, cross-domain-bridge, instruments
• Stop-press correction — fixing type mid-run — made copies within a single early modern edition differ from one another
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · print-history, errata, textual-variance, book-structure, history-of-the-book
• Analytical bibliography, and its method collation, is the shared discipline behind both within-edition and across-edition textual variance
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · history-of-the-book, bibliography, collation, textual-variance, cross-domain-bridge
• Does the Hinman Collator's design actually derive from Pulfrich's blink comparator and Hinman's WWII aerial-reconnaissance work?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, history-of-the-book, bibliography, collation, cross-domain-bridge
• Collation — the discipline of comparing variant copies — is the real bridge between the cancel-slip note and the Pollack citation-discrepancy note
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · history-of-the-book, bibliography, collation, textual-variance, cross-domain-bridge
• The Bank of England turned the watermark into a currency-security feature, adopting watermarked banknote paper in 1697 after its notes were counterfeited
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, security, anti-counterfeiting
• Watermarks originated as a papermaker's identity mark in Fabriano, Italy, in the 13th century
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, history-of-the-book, security
• Daniel Bomberg's 1519/20–23 Venice edition fixed the standard Talmud pagination — not the commentary layout, which Soncino set in 1483/84
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · print-history, talmud, accretion, book-structure, history-of-the-book
• Early modern printers corrected printed errors by pasting small cancel slips over the mistake — down to a single letter
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · print-history, errata, accretion, book-structure, history-of-the-book
• Does a Tier 1–2 source confirm that Daniel Bomberg's 1520–23 Venice edition fixed the standard Talmud page layout?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · print-history, talmud, accretion, verification, history-of-the-book
• Do Tier 1–2 scholarly sources (Encyclopaedia Iranica; de Blois 1990) confirm the Borzuya → Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain, its dates, and the immortality-herb legend?
  question open 2026-07-09 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, verification