# Books

> A chronological documentary of 1,513 moments spanning c. 332 BC–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/books · Loreline (loreline.live)

A book is a technology for holding a mind still long enough to copy it. For most of the story that meant an animal skin, a quill and a room of monks working through a winter to produce one volume. Then a goldsmith in Mainz worked out how to cast reusable letters in metal, not the first movable type on earth, since China and Korea had got there centuries before, but the first system that scaled, and the price of a book collapsed. What followed was almost everything: mass literacy, the newspaper, the novel, the pamphlet war, and a permanent argument about who gets to read what. Books have been chained to desks, indexed as forbidden, burned in public squares by governments confident they were on the right side, and hidden under floorboards by people who disagreed. They have also been the most durable storage medium anyone has built: a codex written in the year 800 is still readable, which is more than can be said for a floppy disk from 1994. This archive is the whole of it, the making, the printing, the libraries, the trade, the banning, the individual books that moved something, and the strange private act of reading itself.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22._

## Eras

- **Papyrus & Scrolls**, Before the page there was the roll. Egyptian papyrus made from a river reed, the Dead Sea Scrolls sealed in jars, the carbonised Herculaneum library now being read by particle accelerator and machine learning, and the slow shift from the scroll to the bound codex that changed how anyone could look something up.
- **Scribes**, The people who made the marks, and what they made them with. Copyists at the desk, cuneiform pressed into wet clay, the reed and the quill, oak-gall ink and lapis ground into ultramarine, and the colophons where an exhausted monk complains in the margin about his cold hands.
- **Parchment & Paper**, The substrate. Animal skin scraped, stretched and limed into vellum; paper travelling from Han China through Samarkand and Baghdad to Fabriano and then everywhere; rag pulp, watermarks, the mill, and the acid-paper disaster that is quietly destroying most of what was printed after 1850.
- **Manuscripts**, Books written entirely by hand, and the objects that survived. Domesday, Magna Carta, the great codices, palimpsests where an earlier text was scraped off and read back centuries later, and the libraries and collectors who kept them intact.
- **Illuminated Manuscripts**, Gold leaf, miniature painting and the decorated initial. The Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, books of hours made for people who could not read the Latin in them, bestiaries, and the marginalia, the knights fighting snails, the rabbits with trumpets.
- **Islamic Manuscripts**, Calligraphy as the highest art form. Kufic and naskh, the Qur'an as an object, Persian and Mughal painting, the paper mills of Baghdad, the translation movement in the House of Wisdom, and the manuscript libraries of Fez, Cairo and Timbuktu.
- **World Manuscripts**, Hebrew, Armenian, Syriac, Ethiopian and Coptic books; Mesoamerican codices in bark paper and deerskin, most of them burned; the Timbuktu manuscripts smuggled out of Mali in rice sacks in 2012; and the writing traditions that never entered the European story at all.
- **Asian Books**, China, Japan, Korea and the wider region, where printing is older than Gutenberg by centuries. Bamboo slips, the Diamond Sutra of 868 as the oldest dated printed book, Korean movable metal type in 1377, the Tripitaka Koreana's 81,000 blocks, and the Japanese and Chinese book trades.
- **Woodblock**, Printing from a carved surface. East Asian woodblock and the European woodcut, engraving, etching and lithography, the image half of the book, and the technique that put pictures into print long before photography.
- **Gutenberg**, Mainz, around 1450: a goldsmith, a punch, a matrix, a hand mould, an oil-based ink and a converted press. The 42-line Bible, the lawsuit with Fust that took the business away from him, and the argument about what he actually invented and what he borrowed.
- **Printing**, The press and what it did. Incunabula, Aldus Manutius and the pocket book, Caxton in Westminster, Plantin in Antwerp, the hand press, the iron press, steam, stereotype, the Linotype, offset, and the print shop as the noisiest room in town.
- **Typography**, Letterforms and the people who cut them. Roman and italic, Garamond, Baskerville, Bodoni, Caslon, blackletter, the punchcutter's hand, Gill and Zapf and Frutiger, the Swiss grid, phototypesetting and the leap to digital type.
- **Bookbinding**, Turning sheets into a book. Sewing, the gathering and the signature, boards and leather and gold tooling, the fore-edge painting hidden until you fan the pages, the treasure binding in metal and jewels, and the conservators repairing all of it now.
- **Bibles**, The most printed book there is. The Vulgate, the Gutenberg Bible, Tyndale burned for translating it, Luther's German, the King James, the Geneva Bible and its footnotes, mass distribution by the Bible societies, and the translation work still going on in hundreds of languages.
- **Libraries**, Rooms full of books and how they were organised. Alexandria and what actually happened to it, the reading room, the card catalogue, Dewey and the Library of Congress classification, the stacks, and the fight over what a library is for now.
- **Monastery Libraries**, The chained library and the scriptorium. St Gallen, Admont, Strahov, Melk, Hereford, the Joanina at Coimbra, the Escorial, the rooms where books were copied, kept and read for a thousand years, and which mostly still look exactly as they did.
- **National Libraries**, The great deposit collections. The British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale, the Library of Congress, the Vatican Library, and the buildings, budgets, legal-deposit rules and cyberattacks that keep them going or nearly stop them.
- **Librarians**, The job. Reference work, cataloguing, prison and hospital libraries, bookmobiles and camel libraries, the ALA, funding fights, and the librarians who refused to hand over borrowing records.
- **Archives**, The record that was never meant to be published. Registries, national archives, the disaster of a burned or bombed archive, digitisation programmes, provenance and repatriation, and how you find one document among forty million.
- **Publishing**, The trade. The publisher, the editor, the agent, the advance, the imprint, paperback revolutions, Penguin, the airport bestseller, the conglomerate merger, self-publishing, and how a manuscript becomes a product.
- **Bookshops**, Where books are sold. The independent, the second-hand shop, Shakespeare and Company, the chain, the remainder table, the book fair, and the shops that closed and the ones that somehow did not.
- **Readers**, The other half of the act. Reading aloud, reading silently, marginalia, commonplace books, book clubs, the novel-reading panic, audiobooks, Braille and talking books, and what the eye and brain actually do on a page.
- **Literacy**, Learning to read, and who was allowed to. Hornbooks and primers, mass schooling, literacy campaigns, the alphabet wars and phonics, adult literacy work, and the parts of the world where the fight is still on.
- **Censorship**, Books stopped by authority. The Index of Forbidden Books, obscenity trials from Ulysses to Lady Chatterley, samizdat typed on onionskin, the fatwa against Rushdie, and state censors from Franco's Spain to the present.
- **Book Bans**, The modern wave. School-board removals and district lists, the titles pulled most often, the parents and librarians on both sides of it, lawsuits, and the counts published each year by the ALA and PEN.
- **Book Burning**, Fire as an argument. The Nazi bonfires of 1933, the National and University Library of Bosnia in 1992, the Jaffna library in 1981, Louvain twice in two wars, and the deliberate destruction of a written culture as a tactic.
- **Encyclopedias**, The attempt to hold everything. Pliny, the Chinese leishu, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie as a political act, the Britannica and its door-to-door salesmen, Brockhaus, and Wikipedia, the largest of them all, written by nobody in particular.
- **Landmark Books**, Individual titles that changed something, and the copies of them that survive. The First Folio, Newton's Principia, Audubon's double elephant folio, and the rare-book world of auctions, forgeries and thefts that grew up around such objects.
- **Children's Books**, The books people remember longest. Picture books and the illustrator's craft, primers and fairy tales, Carroll and Sendak and Blyton, board books, banned children's titles, and the reading that decides whether anyone becomes a reader at all.

## Timeline

### c. 332 BC
- **c. 332 BC**, Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes). Papyrus, funerary, Book of the Dead, Imouthes, Imhotep, Imuthes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Egyptian Art). Papyrus, ink. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, ca. 332–200 BCE. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/850803d6-e75a-4df4-954a-b226532ba688) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551786
### 150
- **0150**, Muziris Papyrus P.Vindob. G 40822 verso Austrian National Library. Verso side of the Muziris Papyrus (P.Vindob. G 40822), a Greek papyrus document of the mid-2nd century CE preserved in the Austrian National Library. The verso contains an account of Indian cargo from the ship Hermapollon, including Gangetic nard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c820052d-09ad-4bb1-ab06-8b4aad0ab612) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muziris_Papyrus_P.Vindob._G_40822_verso_Austrian_National_Library.jpg
### 350
- **0350**, Codex Sinaiticus Paralipomenon 9,27-10,11. Codex Sinaiticus, the fourth-century Greek Bible codex, one of the oldest substantially complete Christian books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cca98125-a9bd-4b6e-96b5-67fe6f8480c6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Sinaiticus_Paralipomenon_9,27-10,11.JPG
- **0350**, Codex Ink. Codex Sinaiticus, the fourth-century Greek Bible codex, one of the oldest substantially complete Christian books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d9cd1df4-f719-4c97-bbbf-cb8e96b24f50) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Ink.jpg
- **0350**, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus (title). Codex Sinaiticus, the fourth-century Greek Bible codex, one of the oldest substantially complete Christian books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f7bd2090-147a-461d-8f23-9dde9724bdbf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Sinaiticus_Petropolitanus_(title).JPG
- **0350**, Codex Sinaiticus. Pagina, GD009896. Title Codex Sinaiticus. Pagina Series EuroPhot. Art history. 4th century. Artifact EuroPhot. Kunstgeschiedenis. 4de eeuw. Artefact Extent 1 glasdia; 100 x 85 mm. Slide Language Undetermined Typographical details glass slide(s) Additional info General note: Fotograaf onbekend General note: Toegevoegde informatie op dia Biographical or historical data: Oorspronkelijke locatie/Vindplaats: Egypte, Si [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e92cf157-946c-41ab-9aff-af4a7ca7d20f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Sinaiticus._Pagina,_GD009896.jpg
### 800
- **0800**, Qur'an Manuscript Folio. 9th century. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s-900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1606fcf6-970b-47e4-8b55-290a73a7dcab) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.483
- **0800**, Qur'an Manuscript Folio: a second folio. Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso). Iran or Iraq, Abbasid period, 9th, 10th century. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s, 900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/40c8883b-d1f1-462d-a338-c9e830144ef6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.494.b
- **0800**, Trinity College - Book of Kells. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4732c530-7ccc-42a2-870a-385e74e02269) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_College_-_Book_of_Kells_(49540675332).jpg
- **0800**, Qur'an Manuscript Folio (recto); left side of bifolio. 9th century. gold, ink and colors on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/777f3224-a56f-400b-9417-45dcafd7fd90) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.39.2.a
- **0800**, Dublin Trinity College Library Long Room Book of Kells 1. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/77e70d56-9097-468d-9a05-00ec2d1579d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dublin_Trinity_College_Library_Long_Room_Book_of_Kells_1.jpg
- **0800**, The book of Kells library interior 3. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90f57c47-74ba-49d6-a074-816bd5079914) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_book_of_Kells_library_interior_3.jpg
- **0800**, Qur'an Manuscript Folio (verso), view 2. Qur'an Manuscript Folio. Iran or Iraq, Abbasid period, 800s, 900s. ink, gold, and color on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, 800s, 900s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd515d96-537b-4270-b017-73ca2711c738) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.494
### 830
- **0830**, Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual. 9th century. gold and silver ink on purple parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 830–60. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/582704a3-a039-45d7-b494-17a3f556046c) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.446
### 850
- **0850**, Diamond sutra. Frontispiece of a printed dated copy of the Diamond Sutra. Ink on paper: woodblock print. Or.8210/P.2 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/33aa3a82-0eaf-4ae9-b472-b0c7ca8af1b9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diamond_sutra.jpg
- **0850**, E-codices csg-0728 004 max. The earliest manuscript catalogue of the monastery of St. Gall from the middle of the 9th century, followed by a collection of important law texts (capitularies of Ansegis, Lex Salica, Lex Ribuaria). (smu) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/946b2e83-f52e-4896-ab31-e49e728bd7f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E-codices_csg-0728_004_max.jpg
### 868
- **0868**, Diamond Sutra - Exhibits on the ground floor of Himalayan Tibet Museum in Darjeeling 12. The Diamond Sutra, the Dunhuang copy of 868 is the earliest dated printed book to survive complete. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0275d15a-2d83-4314-a619-bd4ac0f4c656) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diamond_Sutra_-_Exhibits_on_the_ground_floor_of_Himalayan_Tibet_Museum_in_Darjeeling_12.jpg
- **0868**, Himalayan Tibet Museum - Darjeeling - Diamond Sutra (1). The Diamond Sutra, the Dunhuang copy of 868 is the earliest dated printed book to survive complete. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/255eaaae-3266-4de4-b243-6ce949f8c016) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himalayan_Tibet_Museum_-_Darjeeling_-_Diamond_Sutra_(1).jpg
- **0868**, Tibetan Diamond Sutra. The Diamond Sutra, the Dunhuang copy of 868 is the earliest dated printed book to survive complete. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ba3b4d0d-5319-443b-85a5-44899ab8c89c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibetan_Diamond_Sutra.jpg
### 1000
- **1000**, Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3bdfc1be-972d-4cc5-b7e7-54d46e1f5b27) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.152
- **1000**, Text, folio 110 (recto), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/746d3d26-0cae-4476-80b3-03ce70a013d6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.152.110.a
- **1000**, Text, folio 121 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dafbc5b0-c4f5-4d31-ac6a-8718839d5978) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.152.121.b
### 1050
- **1050**, Syriac manuscript 11 century liturgy - 2. A Syriac manuscript in the Aramaic script used by the Churches of the East. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e0471136-d1c7-4e19-81f0-818f4ad25125) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syriac_manuscript_11_century_liturgy_-_2.jpg
### 1054
- **1054**, Syriac Orthodox icon of Jesus Christ, St. Peter, and St. Paul. A Syriac manuscript in the Aramaic script used by the Churches of the East. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/348fb22f-6192-4f29-bddc-a3e4f29f3135) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syriac_Orthodox_icon_of_Jesus_Christ,_St._Peter,_and_St._Paul.jpg
### 1069
- **1069**, Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut (1894.180). Potent symbols, sacred words, and divine protection helped ancient Egyptians transition from the earthly realm to an eternal existence. Interactions between mortals and the gods were depicted on funerary objects including papyri, like this example made for temple singer Tayu-henut-Mut (“the mistress of \[the goddess\] Mut”). This papyrus shows Tayu-henut-Mut standing with raised hands before an offe [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/89aa0292-3708-4d71-9b2c-c6f5d57fa6a9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funerary_Papyrus_of_Tayuhenutmut_(1894.180).jpg
### 1077
- **1077**, Papyrus with the Instruction of Amenemope. (1077-664 BC). It was discovered at Thebes, and was purchased by the British Museum through Wallis Budge in 1888. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/060a289b-2580-486b-95ca-ddef0645e07e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papyrus_with_the_Instruction_of_Amenemope.jpg
### 1079
- **1079**, Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament. 1084. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3d22043f-7924-4a88-9244-72873930eb62) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.154
### 1086
- **1086**, Domesday Croydon Cheam. The Domesday Book, the 1086 survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/10f74c10-82bd-435e-ad63-311cd8ad02c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domesday_Croydon_Cheam.jpg
- **1086**, Selseydomesday. The Domesday Book, the 1086 survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/86dd5282-cbe3-4864-a678-ec5b9b6d6a7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selseydomesday.jpg
- **1086**, Domesday zinco Somerset Glastonbury. The Domesday Book, the 1086 survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca965f70-7746-44b2-a0b1-2c6467ea495c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domesday_zinco_Somerset_Glastonbury.jpg
- **1086**, Plate XXIV 2 Domesday Book Guilford 1086. Terra Regis. In Wochinges Hundredo. In Gildeford habet Rex Willelmus 75 hagas in quibus manent 175 homines. Tempore Regis Edwardi reddebat 18 libras et 3 denarios. Modo appreciatur 30 libris et tamen reddit 32 libras. De supradictis hagis habet Rannulfus clericus tres hagas ubi manent sex homines, et inde liabet isdem Rannulfus sacam et socam, nisi commune geldum in villa venerit, undo nullus cv [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b440b79-77e6-482f-86ac-c673eb479715) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate_XXIV_2_Domesday_Book_Guilford_1086.png
### 1100
- **1100**, Bilingual Syriac-New Persian psalter in Syriac script, Bulayik, 12th-13th century AD, paper - Ethnological Mus. A Syriac manuscript in the Aramaic script used by the Churches of the East. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/13a87713-98be-487f-b63b-b3550a4c028e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bilingual_Syriac-New_Persian_psalter_in_Syriac_script,_Bulayik,_12th-13th_century_AD,_paper_-_Ethnological_Museum,_Berlin_-_DSC01760.JPG
- **1100**, Page from a Qur'an, Sura al-Nisa 4, verses 159–60. 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/295450b8-9787-4b0b-bc47-b38e2320f04c) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.507.b
- **1100**, Fragment of the Cairo Genizah - The Passover Haggadah, pages 3&4 plus ruler. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4232498a-97dd-4a5e-aeb6-51e25ed34469) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragment_of_the_Cairo_Genizah_-_The_Passover_Haggadah,_pages_3%264_plus_ruler.jpg
- **1100**, Solomon Schechter studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah, c. 1898. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5e313f23-4b6e-4174-a28c-e45475f6b6b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solomon_Schechter_studying_the_fragments_of_the_Cairo_Genizah,_c._1898.jpg
- **1100**, Double-Sided Leaf from a Qur'an. 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6dbacd91-a710-4f12-9063-e8d9e250e741) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.507
- **1100**, Fragment of the Cairo Genizah - The Passover Haggadah, pages 1&2 plus ruler. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8e4c4c60-007c-4b1c-a097-98a4ac101d28) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragment_of_the_Cairo_Genizah_-_The_Passover_Haggadah,_pages_1%262_plus_ruler.jpg
- **1100**, Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron. A Syriac manuscript in the Aramaic script used by the Churches of the East. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c0747731-6179-40fa-993f-4f3184fcafc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ephrem%27s_Commentary_on_the_Diatessaron.jpg
- **1100**, Meta-Discourse on the Teachings from the Treasury (Abidharmakosha-Bhashya). ). Japan, Heian period (794–1185). handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e8ab2df5-0332-4328-9b7e-c63c402eadd1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1060
- **1100**, Folio from a Qur'an. (1037–1194). ink, gold, and colors on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1100s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fd1138d9-35c1-42e0-a0b3-4fe341802c3d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.488
### 1143
- **1143**, Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His. (below). Switzerland, Monastery of Engelberg, 12th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1143–1178. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e6c0b93e-714f-4f8a-a3d0-62d8966dd4cc) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.74
### 1150
- **1150**, Aethicus, Handschrift, Benediktinerstift Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, Fragm. C 472 (Ende des Werks und Alphabet). Admont, Benedictine Abbey, Fragment C 472 (formerly Cod. 472, fol. 1f/2r): This fragment was embedded for centuries in Codex 472 of the Benedictine Abbey of Admont, a Sedulius manuscript from the 12th century. During the restoration of the binding in 1952, it was removed. Winfried Stelzer identified the fragment as an early version of the Cosmography of Aethicus, dating to the late 9th century. He [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/52f7bb21-b016-4bd3-9d9f-b5bb9ad965a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aethicus,_Handschrift,_Benediktinerstift_Admont,_Stiftsbibliothek,_Fragm._C_472_(Ende_des_Werks_und_Alphabet).png
### 1168
- **1168**, T-S NS 163.57. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ef8e1f10-e76b-41d8-b8ce-be7820d28297) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T-S_NS_163.57.jpg
### 1200
- **1200**, Lalitwistra Waipulya Sutra. A Buddhist sutra manuscript or printed text, the copying of sutras was itself a devotional act. Low-resolution scan retained as scarce primary material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0184830d-e600-4cc0-b0d7-a14ed6293951) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lalitwistra_Waipulya_Sutra.jpg
- **1200**, SMT D119 Facsimile of f plate 21 of the manuscript Troano. Maya codex material. Only four pre-conquest Maya codices survive; much of what circulates is nineteenth-century facsimile plates. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/03e38586-a4ca-4766-92ef-a157ede5661c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMT_D119_Facsimile_of_f_plate_21_of_the_manuscript_Troano.jpg
- **1200**, 4Q41 2. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0fd98f48-280c-41ae-a71d-a5a96218f722) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4Q41_2.png
- **1200**, Dharmakīrtisāgara.. A Buddhist sutra manuscript or printed text, the copying of sutras was itself a devotional act. Low-resolution scan retained as scarce primary material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2eb2125b-2dde-4a7d-b383-65ff13825842) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dharmak%C4%ABrtis%C4%81gara..JPG
- **1200**, Entire Tanakh scroll set. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2fc2d8cc-198d-4277-b238-4b61329513f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entire_Tanakh_scroll_set.png
- **1200**, Detail of Maya Codex - Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City - Mexico. Maya codex material. Only four pre-conquest Maya codices survive; much of what circulates is nineteenth-century facsimile plates. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/355ea817-ecd0-483e-9bf3-939fe69172ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Maya_Codex_-_Museum_of_Anthropology_-_Mexico_City_-_Mexico_(15323138648).jpg
- **1200**, GYANTSE Bibliotheque. A Buddhist sutra manuscript or printed text, the copying of sutras was itself a devotional act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5b79a6b8-225a-4992-af90-b296d689e0d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GYANTSE_Bibliotheque.jpg
- **1200**, CodexPages9 17. The Dresden Codex, the best preserved of the four surviving Maya codices, containing astronomical and calendrical tables. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cade03d7-a5ed-4e27-a6a1-853009138e64) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CodexPages9_17.jpg
- **1200**, SMT D111 Facsimile of plate 20 of the manuscript Troano. Maya codex material. Only four pre-conquest Maya codices survive; much of what circulates is nineteenth-century facsimile plates. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d300d7e6-f314-44aa-bc9d-fe339d9ee7f1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMT_D111_Facsimile_of_plate_20_of_the_manuscript_Troano.jpg
- **1200**, MA D363 Maya animals hunted. Maya codex material. Only four pre-conquest Maya codices survive; much of what circulates is nineteenth-century facsimile plates. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ea972067-9dc3-4244-bf6c-4f1d43e3b8d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MA_D363_Maya_animals_hunted.jpg
- **1200**, Dresden Codex f8461796. The Dresden Codex, the best preserved of the four surviving Maya codices, containing astronomical and calendrical tables. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f7f79147-736b-48db-8e29-d5e5cfd1a52c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dresden_Codex_f8461796.png
- **1200**, Isaiah scroll. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ff1ff334-9cb4-4dd0-8596-efd181db5b6a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaiah_scroll.PNG
- **1200**, KellsFol027v4Evang. Image of Folio 27v, with the four evangelist symbols from the en:Book of Kells, a 1200 year old book. Scanned from: Meehan, Bernard; The Book of Kells': an illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. p. 8. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d23401b1-ba7c-4a8b-9896-9c8670b6240a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KellsFol027v4Evang.jpg
### 1215
- **1215**, Magna Carta Exhibition. Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede in 1215; several original engrossments and many later facsimiles survive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/84fc2845-c936-478e-b73e-63398771987f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magna_Carta_Exhibition_(21945628459).jpg
- **1215**, Magna Carta deposited in Congressional Library for duration of war. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. The most cheris. Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede in 1215; several original engrossments and many later facsimiles survive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9c9aeddd-3f76-4a94-8c81-be83778ef8da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magna_Carta_deposited_in_Congressional_Library_for_duration_of_war._Washington,_D.C.,_Nov._28._The_most_cherished_existing_copy_of_the_Magna_Carta_was_today_deposited_in_the_Congressional_LCCN2016876672.jpg
- **1215**, Magna Carta Lincoln Castle 01. Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede in 1215; several original engrossments and many later facsimiles survive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c5a73b67-80ec-4cb8-a779-c7e76699db9d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magna_Carta_Lincoln_Castle_01.jpg
### 1220
- **1220**, Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves). ). England, Glastonbury(?), 13th century. tempera and ink on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1225–50. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9cb9e6fa-8825-4ada-bc19-5326137b2bb0) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.52
### 1230
- **1230**, Bifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ. (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1230–1240. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f5f7f135-f478-442d-be79-0595038d9e88) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.448.1
### 1250
- **1250-06-15**, Tangut Diamond Sutra frontispiece. Initial illustration to a woodblock printed edition of the Tangut translation of the Diamond Sutra recovered from a stupa near the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, now held at the Dunhuang Research Academy \[G11·035\]. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/34a84418-589a-46ab-aaaf-5b253d58e738) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tangut_Diamond_Sutra_frontispiece.jpg
### 1253
- **1253-07-18**, Handwritten diamond sutra zhang jizhi song dynasty 1253. The Chinese calligrapher Zhang Jizhi (張即之, 1186–1266) made this handwritten edition of the Diamond Sutra (section depicted) on 18 July 1253 during the Song dynasty. The calligraphy is in the style of the regular script with elements of the running script. The transcription of sutras, a practice for which Zhang Jizhi was well-known, was considered an act of accumulating merit in Buddhism. The India [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0daaea0-d60d-4f76-9686-6d265dd40ea1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handwritten_diamond_sutra_zhang_jizhi_song_dynasty_1253.jpg
### 1256
- **1256**, Poem by Wang Wei in the Cursive Script Style. (1127-1279). Album leaf; ink on silk. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1256. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/58e903b3-4d7a-430f-adeb-143eb0f5a8f3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.421.2
- **1256**, Poem by Wang Wei in the Cursive Script Style - Song Lizong. Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1256. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8184ab5c-0b16-44cb-93f7-bac2b99a7e7a) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.421.2
### 1260
- **1260**, Partial Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial I\[n principio\] with the Marriage at Cana. 13th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1260–1270. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7abcd308-62c1-4cee-9a29-f91ee4ee4def) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.565
### 1265
- **1265**, Miniature Excised from a Psalter: The Nativity. (?), 13th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1270. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/87af99c7-f88a-4aca-b6e5-74ab1d992b64) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.427
### 1285
- **1285**, Bifolium from a Bible: Initial E\[t factum est\] with Ezekiel. Manuscript in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1290. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/38969072-4725-494e-9730-afab6d214bb2) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.272
### 1290
- **1290**, Miniatures from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse. 1295. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/00201a5e-7b86-4a00-ac4c-e8a7d48f05fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.73
### 1295
- **1295**, Historiated Initial (O) Excised from an Antiphonary: The Donor, Gorus Fucci, Kneels before Christ. (?). ink, tempera, and gold on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1300–1350. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/91a8318a-7e6a-4af8-9a9b-c439467bc85d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.314
- **1295**, Bifolio from a Gradual: Initial (G) with Christ, the Virgin, and Apostles and Initial (O) (recto). ). Italy, Siena(?). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1300. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c17a0d83-2022-4c94-807a-cad193049cfa) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.391.a
- **1295**, Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Massacre of the Innocents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves). ). Northeastern France or Flanders. ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1300–1330. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fbe8669c-961e-4e13-9879-f182a85663a0) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.126
### 1300
- **1300**, Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 65. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3128788b-c0a4-4ae5-9cb6-18596abe1a4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libro_el_ekspozicio_de_Matenadaran_65.jpg
- **1300**, Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 47. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/469106ef-633e-4d5d-a291-8f5939979920) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libro_el_ekspozicio_de_Matenadaran_47.jpg
- **1300**, Portrait of St Mark from The Four Gospels Wellcome L0022867. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4a00e7da-d27a-4b2f-886a-ce65650e54d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_St_Mark_from_The_Four_Gospels_Wellcome_L0022867.jpg
- **1300**, Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 74. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a6d4f8a-2933-488a-9e5d-d0c4004c485a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libro_el_ekspozicio_de_Matenadaran_74.jpg
- **1300**, Hebrew Bible Spain. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c85b7f23-9668-4f29-a905-8a830e89bbdb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hebrew_Bible_Spain.jpg
- **1300**, Avatamsaka Sutra No. 78. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Korean Art). Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1300s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2e81d62-2edb-41b3-8f60-270d74848a04) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.25
- **1300**, Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 87. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e1468e68-f2bc-434e-b8b2-c9f1e8d3f09f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libro_el_ekspozicio_de_Matenadaran_87.jpg
- **1300-06-15**, AM 45 fol.-27-0010v. Page 10v of AM 45 fol. (Fríssbók, Codex Frisianus), showing part of Haralds saga hins hárfagra [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c4db3894-d56a-4dec-bbb5-d17c4e8a5b7c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AM_45_fol.-27-0010v.jpg
- **1300-06-15**, Moroccan Qur'an Manuscript, c. 1300 04. Qur'an Manuscript from Morocco/al-Andalus, c. 1300 held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Title:Section from a Qur'an Manuscript Date:ca. 1300 Geography:Attributed to Morocco or Southern Spain Medium:Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on parchment Dimensions:7 15/16 x 7 9/16 in. (20.2 x 19.2 cm) Classification:Codices Credit Line:Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2004 Accession Number:2004.90 htt [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/818aa91b-3d94-4175-9d1c-ae5fc207da7c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moroccan_Qur%27an_Manuscript,_c._1300_04.jpg
### 1301
- **1301**, Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves). ). Northern France or Flanders, early 14th Century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, early 1300s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/406ce34e-2a2e-409f-be0e-6cba7b12b2fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.56
### 1305
- **1305**, "Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings). Folio from an illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, ca. 1330–40. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/04d98c9a-c194-42f0-b427-14dee38e130a) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452651
### 1315
- **1315**, Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device (recto); Text Page, Arabic Prose (verso). ). Syria, Damascus, Mamluk Period, 14th Century. opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1315. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d63f16ab-9ef5-449c-964d-c73f840ed72b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.383
### 1320
- **1320**, Leaf Excised from an Antiphonary: Initial Q with Saints Peter and Paul. 1325. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9ca69089-b064-435a-bb58-019a1163123b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.171
### 1325
- **1325**, Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (recto) and Text (verso). ). Bohemia. ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1330–40. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/41dd83de-df9f-459f-8786-9fedbd0ec4c1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.204
### 1330
- **1330**, Leaf from a Gradual: Historiated Initial R: The Resurrection (recto) and Initial D (verso). ). Italy, Naples. ink, tempera, and gold on parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, mid-1300s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dce4166f-2cdf-4b3d-83b0-ddcc8e9875a1) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.145
### 1340
- **1340**, "Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings). Folio from an illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, dated 741 AH/1341 CE. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/93968a6f-2a7f-4fce-917b-528f93ebaa1b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/448280
### 1341
- **1341**, The Tale of the Twelve Faces. "Bizhan Addresses the Army": Illustration from the Firdausi Shahnama (recto); Th. "The Warriors Engage in Combat": Illustration from the Firdausi Shahnama (verso). Iran, Shiraz, Inju (Il-Khanid), 14th Century. opaque watercolor and ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1341. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograp [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9708796e-25c6-4a45-9f95-891fdf489eec) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.479
### 1350
- **1350**, Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B93 page 32. A Hebrew illuminated manuscript, a marriage contract or festival scroll, from the Braginsky Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f96a8159-791e-44af-9def-e0f57e865eb1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Z%C3%BCrich,_Braginsky_Collection,_B93_page_32.jpg
### 1353
- **1353-06-15**, A Qur'an scroll (tumar) commissioned for Ghiyath al-Din Sultan Muhammad ibn Sultan Eretna, signed Mubarakshah. 'ABDULLAH, EASTERN ANATOLIA, DATED AH 754/1353-54 AD Arabic manuscript on buff paper, the beginning with a series of alternated round and rectangular panels heavily and elegantly illuminated in gold, silver and polychrome and including religious invocations and names of God, flanked [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05095a41-17b5-4738-944a-cab3616a4ec1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Qur%27an_scroll_(tumar)_commissioned_for_Ghiyath_al-Din_Sultan_Muhammad_ibn_Sultan_Eretna,_signed_Mubarakshah_ibn_%27Abdullah,_eastern_Anatolia,_dated_1353-54.jpg
### 1354
- **1354**, Le livre de seyntz medicines f.67 r. (cropped). A portion of a page of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster 's Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines '' showing the title. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/311e19f2-917a-4923-a6a7-13ed722f4531) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_livre_de_seyntz_medicines_f.67_r._(cropped).jpg
### 1368
- **1368**, Yu-hai (Ocean of Jade) woodblock bound volume. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1368–1644. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f20aaf4f-6bd3-48ff-b187-43645103186e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.254
### 1377
- **1377**, Jikji pages. Two pages (pp. 4v, 5r ) of a 1377 manuscript of the Jikji, the oldest example of printing with metal movable type. Held at and digitized by the Département des Manuscrits at the Bibliothèque nationale de France [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f47dc321-5c82-4280-ac23-28f860235e25) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jikji_pages.jpg
### 1399
- **1399**, Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425). Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1404. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/02ba4632-f519-47bb-806d-bf2250ec9d09) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.40
### 1400
- **1400**, Firma parlante marginale autografa di Paris Malmignati.. Handwritten marginal notes in a book or manuscript, the reader’s own traces left in the margin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/20b7142b-247a-4c43-b5cc-ee31b806d95e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firma_parlante_marginale_autografa_di_Paris_Malmignati..jpg
- **1400**, Gorgias marginalia 03. Clarke Plato. Handwritten marginal notes in a book or manuscript, the reader’s own traces left in the margin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3d3dfb93-56da-4bb6-acce-eb3bbda0b1a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorgias_marginalia_03._Clarke_Plato.jpg
- **1400**, Phaidros marginalia 1. Clarke Plato. Handwritten marginal notes in a book or manuscript, the reader’s own traces left in the margin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/413e5736-9b81-4f9b-a48e-f4183a0fdf65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phaidros_marginalia_1._Clarke_Plato.jpg
- **1400**, Gorgias marginalia 05. Clarke Plato. Handwritten marginal notes in a book or manuscript, the reader’s own traces left in the margin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d901cc43-2c8f-4201-bf82-01f86aa521bf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorgias_marginalia_05._Clarke_Plato.jpg
- **1400**, The Story of Hushang (recto), Illustration and text (Persian Prose) from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of. ) of Hafiz-i Abru; Text Page, Persian Prose, (verso), from Majmac al-Tavarikh (A Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru. Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period (1370–1501). ink and opaque watercolor on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, early 1400s. This is a reproduction of the object [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fad0d266-7e18-4df9-94eb-94cccacde24a) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.452
- **1400**, Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 11r, November. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1405. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2750e182-88aa-4530-9f8f-ee9e583d5bdf) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.40.11.a
### 1410
- **1410**, Ellesmere Chaucer f. 138r. The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, copied around 1400-1410 and now at the Huntington Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/58beea50-57f7-4e39-996e-28966e4f205e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellesmere_Chaucer_f._138r.jpg
- **1410**, Ellesmere Chaucer f. 115v. The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, copied around 1400-1410 and now at the Huntington Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c55abc93-2bd3-4c71-9474-d26e0dbb7793) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellesmere_Chaucer_f._115v.jpg
- **1410**, Ellesmere Chaucer f. 133r (Physician's Tale). The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, copied around 1400-1410 and now at the Huntington Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f0332c4a-9799-493a-8f3d-73c4fe2df6df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellesmere_Chaucer_f._133r_(Physician%27s_Tale).jpg
- **1410**, Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin. 1415. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fafa5ae1-1961-4f17-a666-01634ff49120) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.79
### 1415
- **1415**, Leaf from a Gradual: Historiated Initial S\[alve Sancta Parens\] with Birth of the Virgin (recto) and Music (ver. ). Northern Italy, 15th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1420–50. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cd51fed2-8d00-4246-be88-90345e670dda) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.132
- **1415**, Book of Hours (Use of Paris) - The Bedford Master. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1420. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/19e8434b-071c-49ce-b363-356a0cb9c6da) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.120
### 1420
- **1420**, Voynich Manuscript (135). A page from the Voynich manuscript, an early fifteenth-century codex in an undeciphered script. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/11a82f36-d05c-4da3-9f13-49889532e841) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voynich_Manuscript_(135).jpg
- **1420**, DroseraVoynichManuscriptF56r. A page from the Voynich manuscript, an early fifteenth-century codex in an undeciphered script. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/56107f86-6091-436e-9adf-fdf69eeee5f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DroseraVoynichManuscriptF56r.jpg
- **1420**, Mappa Voynich Monti Sibillini. A page from the Voynich manuscript, an early fifteenth-century codex in an undeciphered script. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be059aa8-4013-41d1-bb77-5322f8cfe3f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mappa_Voynich_Monti_Sibillini.jpg
### 1425
- **1425**, Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross. 15th century. ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1430. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8c13e7f2-7686-4579-8b2d-b5f1ce1debbf) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.77
### 1430
- **1430**, Bifolio from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion (recto), Text (verso). ). France (Angers, Nantes, or Poitiers). ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1435. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3adb6d68-a076-4b33-96ba-de16e6e710e9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.244
### 1435
- **1435**, Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (Frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass). ). North Netherlands, Augustinian Cloister of Agnietenberg, near Zwolle, 15th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1440–1450. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c94c4e71-8303-4188-aefd-fbcd47a75352) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.254
- **1435**, Book of Hours (Use of Metz) - France, Metz. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Metz. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1440. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/19890ed9-32be-4b38-b980-9da506150304) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1514
### 1440
- **1440**, Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a Portrait of Saint Luke. (Ethiopia). ink and tempera on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1440–80. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/999303fb-9336-4665-ba3a-7e18735a6fef) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.212
### 1450
- **1450-06-15**, Herodotus, Histories, with marginalia by Lorenzo Valla, Vat. gr. 122, fol. 41r und 122r. Herodotus, Histories. With marginalia by humanist Lorenzo Valla. Vatican library, Vat. gr. 122, fol. 41r und 122r. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f4069142-e004-44ba-aa4a-6170e8e94ad0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herodotus,_Histories,_with_marginalia_by_Lorenzo_Valla,_Vat._gr._122,_fol._41r_und_122r.jpg
- **1450**, Arithmetica boetij. - Upper cover (IA6659). Style: Knotwork/ropework\|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/93f4fe8f-2e0b-4da0-a8fb-c76b1992f828) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arithmetica_boetij._-_Upper_cover_(IA6659).jpg
- **1450**, Compendium Biblie quod et aureum alias Biblie Reportorium nuncupatur.-- - Upper cover (IA1422). Style: Unspecified; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f2e40cb9-d539-403b-981a-f6e138d7eb41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:--Compendium_Biblie_quod_et_aureum_alias_Biblie_Reportorium_nuncupatur.--_-_Upper_cover_(IA1422).jpg
- **1450**, fol. 1 recto- Psalterium.- -fol. 2 recto-- -B-Eatus vir q no abijt in consilio impiorum, etc. - Upper cover (I. Style: Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bc567f56-06f4-46ef-acdf-21a4ad27d1e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-fol._1_recto-_Psalterium.-_-fol._2_recto--_-B-Eatus_vir_q_no_abijt_in_consilio_impiorum,_etc._-_Upper_cover_(IA5264).jpg
- **1450**, Manipulus curatorum.- - Upper cover (IA2103). Style: Unspecified; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/178b33f6-cd17-44eb-a121-552ea8d69bc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Manipulus_curatorum.-_-_Upper_cover_(IA2103).jpg
- **1450**, Quadragesimale doctoris illuminati F. de M. - Upper cover (IA22648). Style: Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e4454b6b-a7ef-43b8-a873-5742e473ce47) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quadragesimale_doctoris_illuminati_F._de_M._-_Upper_cover_(IA22648).jpg
### 1454
- **1454-06-15**, Gutenberg Bible - Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468. Johann Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400, the son of an aristocratic family with ties to the local metalworking industry. He lived in Strasbourg (in present-day France) for a time, where he carried out experiments with moveable metallic type made from a mold. By the mid-1450s, he had perfected a system of printing with moveable type that he used to create what became the world’s mo [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0d120574-7490-422e-afd0-b4a0ca940eb9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_Bible_WDL4102.jpg
### 1455
- **1455**, Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Initial V with Floral Border (recto); Text (verso). ). Austria (? ) or Bohemia (?), 15th century. ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1460–1500. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/392b7b2c-1c39-4060-ab8a-1069c2dffbd4) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.12
- **1455**, Replica of gutenberg bible. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/673ede9c-e663-41ea-8902-d9b86ffdd50f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Replica_of_gutenberg_bible.jpg
- **1455**, Gutenbergbibel aus Rendsburg. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a9ae8ef2-b546-4850-9d2e-b20a375a70cd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenbergbibel_aus_Rendsburg.jpg
- **1455**, Germania, biblia latina (bibbia di gutenberg), 1455-56 ca. (saint-omer, bibliothèque de l'agglomeration du pay. The Gutenberg Bible of about 1455, the first substantial European book printed with movable type. Some frames photograph a facsimile on display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f21e5898-ee2b-480a-9834-d8b4e33467fe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germania,_biblia_latina_(bibbia_di_gutenberg),_1455-56_ca._(saint-omer,_biblioth%C3%A8que_de_l%27agglomeration_du_pays_de_s.o.)_salmi.jpg
### 1456
- **1456**, Gutenberg-bible - Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. Commentary on Solomon's from Gutenberg's Latin bible, circa 1453 -1456. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c784269e-c5fe-4e12-937f-8d54d3639c3f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg-bible.jpg
### 1465
- **1465**, Leaf from Jehan de Courcy's "Chronique Universelle": King Priam Meets Helen and Paris outside the Gates of Tro. 15th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1470. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/32e46ce8-d1d5-4108-a01c-62850fc8f718) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.16
- **1465**, Illuminated Folio (recto) from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291). ). Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period (1370–1501). Gum tempera, ink, gold, and silver on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1475–1500; border: c. 1550. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dfc0eabe-7d8c-420b-957d-2b9c336f7295) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.148.a
- **1465**, Book of Hours (Use of Rouen) - Master of the Geneva Latini. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Rouen. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1470. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/da200d36-44a0-495a-a6d9-f2356db1207e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.227
### 1470
- **1470**, Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Annunciation. (?). ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1470s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9b7a3aba-28e3-48a4-9197-2abba44adbb9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.24
### 1475
- **1475**, Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (ve. ). Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501). opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1485. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05c3c80a-4678-4971-9b4f-2574ef3b2e21) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.490
- **1475**, Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion. 15th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1480. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/39c27c21-fb8a-47be-ab93-4a4732a92302) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.205
- **1475**, Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (ve - Bihzad. Manuscript in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1485. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3335b379-ee84-4066-a650-df9ec069dacf) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.490
### 1493
- **1493**, Liber Chronicarum (2022-12-06) 01. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum), printed by Anton Koberger in 1493, the most heavily illustrated book of the incunable period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e40e09f2-2340-4034-b3fd-8a880605584b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liber_Chronicarum_(2022-12-06)_01.jpg
### 1495
- **1495**, Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) and Ape Fishing (verso). ). France, Paris or Rouen, 16th century. ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1500–1510. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9f743fa0-c919-49dc-bafc-20aa58e37ffd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.13
- **1495**, Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). Flanders, Bruges and Ghent. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1500. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d5b0e868-37a3-4233-b97a-4db58fa659dc) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256
### 1499
- **1499**, Anthology of Persian Poetry in Oblong Format (Safina). Non-illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper. Binding: leather. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, dated 905 AH/1499–1500 CE. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bdb8163f-e84d-4ba7-ab01-ea3909331f60) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453385
### 1510
- **1510**, Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome). Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1510. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5c68ca8a-9985-485d-aa09-9ec867fbfdd7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.276
- **1510**, Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 66v, Text. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1510. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/27007833-f954-47d7-a8a5-4473760b6133) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.66.b
- **1510**, Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 95v, Text. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1510. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3ec558f7-b06e-4645-9dac-dc21ae51a1bb) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.276.95.b
- **1510**, "Page of Calligraphy Illuminated with Animals and Plants in a Field of Flowers", Folio from the Shah Jahan Alb. Album leaf in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, verso: ca. 1610–15; recto: ca.1535–45. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eae6c75a-0546-4d0a-9f75-d6b681b4da8b) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451287
### 1519
- **1519**, Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso). ). Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1524. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b3b9805a-1790-4521-9ae9-e44ab08d8cae) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.67
- **1519**, Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eati. (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves). North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1524. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ff82a417-fdff-4a1e-85f5-306a5ba1b50e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.15
- **1519**, St. Anthony Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Germany. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1519. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05d50a4c-cc1c-4c92-9d9f-b148e48eb3d7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.118
### 1523
- **1523**, Retreat on an Autumn Day, in Cursive Script. (1368–1644). Handscroll; ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, dated 1523. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f4854ab-65b5-4ef8-8633-30c209ee2237) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2025.192
- **1523**, Retreat on an Autumn Day, in Cursive Script - Zhu Yunming. Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, dated 1523. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e799c400-f9d9-4915-8231-869ea7e73d9e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2025.192
### 1543
- **1543**, Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Détail 3. Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), which placed the Sun at the centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/070a41f1-df0d-4e4a-aa5a-9f0af85a5c4b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolai_Copernici_Torinensis_De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium_-_D%C3%A9tail_3.jpg
- **1543**, Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica libri septem - Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen 6-07-2018. Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the anatomical atlas whose woodcuts reset the relationship between text and illustration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/55341392-8a54-48c1-ad6a-edbb9c4a0c4c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andreas_Vesalius_-_De_humani_corporis_fabrica_libri_septem_-_Museum_Hof_van_Busleyden_Mechelen_6-07-2018.jpg
- **1543**, Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), which placed the Sun at the centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/64bc4da2-9aaa-404d-96a8-b382ac768d05) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolai_Copernici_Torinensis_De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium.jpg
- **1543**, Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) Menselijk skelet - Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen 6-07-2018 12-39-03. Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the anatomical atlas whose woodcuts reset the relationship between text and illustration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/67ca1fa2-cbcc-42a4-bbf8-367a05a36834) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andreas_Vesalius_(1514-1564)_Menselijk_skelet_-_Museum_Hof_van_Busleyden_Mechelen_6-07-2018_12-39-03.jpg
- **1543**, Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Détail 2. Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), which placed the Sun at the centre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c4349ca5-afd4-4d3a-b45f-1234ad14ea0e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolai_Copernici_Torinensis_De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium_-_D%C3%A9tail_2.jpg
- **1543**, Vesalius, 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Epitome' Wellcome L0048809. Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the anatomical atlas whose woodcuts reset the relationship between text and illustration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2202e63-94d4-4f07-bc56-e64c57992b41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesalius,_%27De_Humani_Corporis_Fabrica_Epitome%27_Wellcome_L0048809.jpg
### 1550
- **1550**, Folio 5 reverso de la Tira de Tepechpan. A page from a Mesoamerican pictorial codex, the Aztec and colonial-Mexican book form combining image and glyph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/51058e28-1b78-4f0d-af20-8e1d74243bc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_5_reverso_de_la_Tira_de_Tepechpan.jpg
- **1550**, Folio from khamse of nezami 15th. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/69aac04b-3dce-4efc-8b9d-ad9fd6d8ebc4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_from_khamse_of_nezami_15th.jpg
- **1550**, Atl tlachinolli. A page from a Mesoamerican pictorial codex, the Aztec and colonial-Mexican book form combining image and glyph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/85706a9b-a09a-455a-90bb-e339242e8e3c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atl_tlachinolli.jpg
- **1550**, An album page with a portrait of a Zand kneeling maiden, Iran, late 18th - early 19th century. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/95ab2337-8cb2-44ba-9c65-a1a66f0a2a85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_album_page_with_a_portrait_of_a_Zand_kneeling_maiden,_Iran,_late_18th_-_early_19th_century.jpg
- **1550**, Hamse-i Nevâî. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a6b0bfeb-d097-428e-a2d7-e6715f534952) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamse-i_Nev%C3%A2%C3%AE.jpg
- **1550**, Qajar Miniature (1800 - 1850) Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Film and Choreography - Art Palace. A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f3681f07-978c-48be-a78e-586dc9c00edd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qajar_Miniature_(1800_-_1850)_Georgian_State_Museum_of_Theatre,_Music,_Film_and_Choreography_-_Art_Palace.jpg
- **1550**, Codex Carafianus. Image of the Codex Carafianus as found in Quentin's book (raw JP2 version cropped). It is a 1583 edition of the w:Leuven Vulgate (Genesis ch. 23-24) corrected by the commission established by Sixtus V under the presidency of cardinal Carafa. Quentin writes that the original printed readings and notes in the margins of the Leuven Vulgate have been strikethrough. See the unmodified 1583 Leuven Vulga [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5fd5066e-45bc-4554-b186-55d6fd8aa2c7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Carafianus.png
- **1550**, The Bristol Psalter - Lower Cover (Add ms 40731). Style: Greek style (alla greca); Caption: Lower Cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/131d2784-39a7-445f-8223-609b47a41946) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bristol_Psalter_-_Lower_Cover_(Add_ms_40731).jpg
### 1556
- **1556**, Yusuf and Zulaykha (recto); Text Page, Persian Verses (verso). ). Iran, Shiraz or Mashhad, Safavid period (1501–1722). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1556–65. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/692a103c-c34f-4297-8208-c1e83f8c69aa) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.501
### 1558
- **1558**, Four Poems: Calligraphy in Cursive Script (xingshu). Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1500s-1600s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f2824614-5397-40a3-91af-fa2bccc536fb) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.65
### 1559
- **1559-12-31**, Cathalogus librorum qui prohibentur. Portada del libro Cathalogus librorum qui prohibentur mandato Illustrissimi & Reverend.\[issimi\] D.\[omini\] D.\[omini\] Ferdinandi de Valdes Hispalen.\[sis\] Archiepi.\[scopi\], Inquisitoris Generalis Hispaniae (Pinciae: Sebastianus Martinez excudebat, MDCLIX) \[Valladolid, 1559\] [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d458ecd-2ed9-446e-bbe9-7cb97a70f335) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathalogus_librorum_qui_prohibentur.jpg
### 1573
- **1573**, Selections from the Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Kokin wakashū) with Design of. (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858). handscroll; ink on silk with gold and silver. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1600s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3da0cf9d-f64d-421c-9aa6-7754185c95c0) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.67
### 1575
- **1575**, Calligraphic exercises and verses of Hafiz (Persian, about 1325–1389) (verso). ). Persian, Uzbekistan, Bukhara. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1575–76. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3b42ba43-5d23-43b0-a19f-e4914cfe0f59) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.347.b
- **1575**, "The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds). Folio from an illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, ca. 1600. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/740c8664-c250-40f4-b385-293d7824b005) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451725
- **1575**, "Shaikh San'an beneath the Window of the Christian Maiden", Folio18r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Bi. Folio from an illustrated manuscript in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, ca. 1600. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e0212142-4eab-4117-8fd7-626fd110fc78) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451726
### 1581
- **1581**, Cholula, Tlaxcala, Mexico WDL502. A page from a Mesoamerican pictorial codex, the Aztec and colonial-Mexican book form combining image and glyph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9c592c50-02c4-4f6d-906b-7051634cc151) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cholula,_Tlaxcala,_Mexico_WDL502.png
### 1582
- **1582**, Muchitlan, Tlaxcala, Mexico WDL407. A page from a Mesoamerican pictorial codex, the Aztec and colonial-Mexican book form combining image and glyph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e4f3b675-2ba5-47a8-aa00-0d63b80590b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muchitlan,_Tlaxcala,_Mexico_WDL407.png
### 1585
- **1585**, Calligraphy: Preface to the Anvar-i Suhaili. 16th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1590. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1c08c2d2-3642-4509-8847-f23a244233fa) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.303.b
### 1591
- **1591**, Calligraphy. (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1596. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90ac2e5c-cc3e-4695-b574-e0a6e61b6fad) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.502.b
### 1599
- **1599-06-15**, Muhammad Abu al-Su'ud (Abu Su'ud Efendi) (d. 1574); Du'anama (Book of Prayers) signed Muhammad Amin al-Husayni. MUHAMMAD ABU AL-SU'UD (ABU SU'UD EFENDI) (D. 1574 AD): DU'ANAMA (BOOK OF PRAYERS) SIGNED MUHAMMAD AMIN AL-HUSAYNI AL-TIRMIDHI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1008/1599-1600 AD An early copy of this prayer book composed by Sultan Sulayman's Grand Mufti, Ottoman manuscript on paper, 39ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant nasta'liq script, some words picked out in red, text within thick [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd94d31e-0c2d-4258-bf7b-16047a8c69ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad_Abu_al-Su%27ud_(Abu_Su%27ud_Efendi)_(d._1574);_Du%27anama_(Book_of_Prayers)_signed_Muhammad_Amin_al-Husayni_al-Tirmidhi,_Ottoman_Turkey,_dated_1599-1600.jpg
### 1600
- **1600**, A palm leaf Sanskrit manuscript in Brahmi script from Miran China. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1c4ea1c9-404f-4121-a6d1-703b9f64814d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_palm_leaf_Sanskrit_manuscript_in_Brahmi_script_from_Miran_China.jpg
- **1600**, Assumption of the Virgin and God the Father Holding an Orb, Coptic Christian manuscript, Ethiopia, Amhara peop. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1fa86598-8435-4214-95ea-03db10b7e93e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assumption_of_the_Virgin_and_God_the_Father_Holding_an_Orb,_Coptic_Christian_manuscript,_Ethiopia,_Amhara_people,_miniature_c._1960,_text_19th_century,_tempera_on_parchment,_wood_-_Chazen_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC01764.JPG
- **1600**, Timbuktu-139068. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/245e9a17-58d5-4dc9-83be-ab9ad2830fc1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timbuktu-139068.jpg
- **1600**, The Altar and the Book, Lake Tana Earth Church, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/288e42d8-2dde-4f5c-a70f-cb8e3e29d38c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Altar_and_the_Book,_Lake_Tana_Earth_Church,_Ethiopia_(6952466412).jpg
- **1600**, Skanda Purana, Sanskrit, miniature Grantha script, Whish manuscript collection, acquired 1829 CE. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4210d1e9-4e1f-4cb5-993f-238081137267) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skanda_Purana,_Sanskrit,_miniature_Grantha_script,_Whish_manuscript_collection,_acquired_1829_CE.jpg
- **1600**, Thai Buddhist Manuscript inscribed on plam-leaves with a me Wellcome L0031386. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/50123b6a-f8b2-447b-9359-732eb11c54b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thai_Buddhist_Manuscript_inscribed_on_plam-leaves_with_a_me_Wellcome_L0031386.jpg
- **1600**, Timbuktu-139070. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/52854a43-cdf1-4fd8-bcdf-72ba22e12dc5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timbuktu-139070.jpg
- **1600**, Palm leaf manuscripts which were used by Ezhuthachan(Kadupattan). A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5674ec35-4ef7-4d27-86d2-71a68c92d175) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm_leaf_manuscripts_which_were_used_by_Ezhuthachan(Kadupattan).jpg
- **1600**, Palm-leaf manuscript in the National Library of China. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/596143f0-3cc6-4ef6-be0a-45d09c3380ec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_manuscript_in_the_National_Library_of_China.JPG
- **1600**, Ethiopia Aksum MonksPresentingTheBible. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b9bdd50-e932-45e8-8e79-3c7d0c20cae4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopia_Aksum_MonksPresentingTheBible.JPG
- **1600**, Гэндзи by shakko. Material relating to The Tale of Genji, written by Murasaki Shikibu around 1010 and often called the first novel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8018aff9-41be-42c3-95d4-643caf611694) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%93%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8_by_shakko.jpg
- **1600**, Ethiopian Coptic Bible Manuscript at the Museum of Catholic Art and History (Columbus, Ohio). An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/85da8b13-fdda-4185-b96b-12e7a25fa518) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopian_Coptic_Bible_Manuscript_at_the_Museum_of_Catholic_Art_and_History_(Columbus,_Ohio).jpg
- **1600**, Ethiopic manuscript cover. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aa1b2b54-d180-4dc9-b802-4f35cec4f165) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopic_manuscript_cover.jpg
- **1600**, Ta'rikh al-Fattash Mamma Haidara Library 34122 n01. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ac4d23a5-4c10-4822-9d75-5a5c64a1afa5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ta%27rikh_al-Fattash_Mamma_Haidara_Library_34122_n01.jpg
- **1600**, Sanskrit Manuscript Wellcome L0070772. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b674fcbc-88b5-4199-ae74-f7b23851fe99) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanskrit_Manuscript_Wellcome_L0070772.jpg
- **1600**, Palm-leaf Manuscripts - Flickr - sajinrajknilambur. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bcd282b6-551e-4c4e-878c-160725a21c64) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_Manuscripts_-_Flickr_-_sajinrajknilambur.jpg
- **1600**, Ethiopian Manuscript Painting and Text. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c10abc60-402a-4abf-a5d0-d954162f14ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopian_Manuscript_Painting_and_Text_(2400624187).jpg
- **1600**, Palm-leaf manuscripts - batticaloa museum. A palm-leaf manuscript from South or Southeast Asia: text incised into dried palm leaf with a stylus and inked, then strung between wooden boards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2471b89-f60a-4dde-98f5-d010513aa1b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_manuscripts_-_batticaloa_museum.jpg
- **1600**, Timbuktu Manuscript. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2bb25ba-e8f6-4846-bf40-2d5e59e40f7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timbuktu_Manuscript_(48522180467).jpg
- **1600**, Folio Quran Maghrebi script Mamma Haidara Library 34119. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f04c50eb-cdb3-4698-9ed1-9dca31041b6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_Quran_Maghrebi_script_Mamma_Haidara_Library_34119.jpeg
- **1600**, Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashū) with Pr - Hon'ami Kōetsu. Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashū) with Printed Designs of Chinese Lions and Crab Finger Grass. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). handscroll; ink, gold, and silver on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, early 1600s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f39fadab-1dfc-4480-91b5-9bd6054b9280) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.118
- **1600**, Ta'rikh al-Fattash Mamma Haidara Library 34122 n02. A manuscript from the private libraries of Timbuktu in Mali, covering law, astronomy, mathematics and theology in Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f5401d34-46e5-47aa-8d5f-a99dc47a44dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ta%27rikh_al-Fattash_Mamma_Haidara_Library_34122_n02.jpg
- **1600**, Selections from the New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times (Shinkokin wakashū) with Pr. Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Japanese Art). Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, early 1600s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7c88d35d-5b3e-42e6-b048-736c11da1c98) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.118
### 1602
- **1602**, Jesus being portrayed by King Abgar’s painter (folio 143 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of. (1569–1627). Gum tempera, ink, color, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1602–4. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/302983eb-2dcc-4231-b6c9-952e05e4fb9a) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.143.a
- **1602**, The Adoration of the Magi, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier. 1602–4. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9734fd19-853a-426e-8f90-07e419a87e85) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.36.b
### 1605
- **1605**, Persian ruba‘i (quatrain) by Maulana Muḥammad Murshidi Zawara’i (Persian, late 1500s - early 1600s) (verso). ). India, Mughal, 17th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1610–1620. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d251d973-888b-492c-b59a-e6d31fa0f269) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.326.b
- **1605**, "Unwan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album. Album leaf in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art). Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, recto and verso: ca. 1630–40. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8a1b4186-a2b9-4f21-8c4d-7415249a5a6c) Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451289
### 1628
- **1628**, Bacon 1628 New Atlantis title page. Title page of New Atlantis in the second edition of Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarvm: or A naturall historie. In ten centvries. Published: London, William Lee at the Turks, 1628 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/da49bbd1-e552-4db7-81b1-53e6f2b8f7e6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacon_1628_New_Atlantis_title_page.png
### 1640
- **1640**, Bay Psalm Book. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4cc2cf5d-cc56-4b5c-92f9-a7d0d4a1d99e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Psalm_Book.jpg
- **1640**, JCB Bay Psalm Book title page. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/99306270-2fa0-4d8e-90b1-00e3a472359c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JCB_Bay_Psalm_Book_title_page.jpg
- **1640**, Bay Psalm Book, 0002v. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ee030bd2-4bdd-48af-afd4-f44bde903cd0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Psalm_Book,_0002v.jpg
- **1640**, Martin droeswoode-index librorum prohibitorum-1640. Alegoría de la Inquisición, frontispicio del Novisissimus librorum prohibitorum et expurgandorum index, Madrid, por Diego Díaz, 1640 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed8b3b4b-b007-4d20-88b0-94d5fb97a7b6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_droeswoode-index_librorum_prohibitorum-1640.jpg
### 1648
- **1648**, Gurdiyah gives Khusraw an equestrian cat (Shahnameh manuscript, c. 1648). A Persian manuscript painting, made as an illustration bound inside a book rather than as a standalone picture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/beacbb93-032f-4bbc-a5a9-a9cec2e86cd7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gurdiyah_gives_Khusraw_an_equestrian_cat_(Shahnameh_manuscript,_c._1648).jpg
### 1650
- **1650**, Mughal painting in Jain Museum Madhuban. A Mughal manuscript painting from the Indian subcontinent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7c398721-a733-4d0c-9ea6-aae9a775c1d2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mughal_painting_in_Jain_Museum_Madhuban.jpg
- **1650**, Elephant Combat - Mughal Painting, 19th Century. A Mughal manuscript painting from the Indian subcontinent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9109a71f-816c-46a5-8094-3fa4b51e1b92) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Combat_-_Mughal_Painting,_19th_Century.jpg
- **1650**, Handwritten Guru Granth Sahib manuscript kept at Gurdwara Mattan Sahib in Martand, Kashmir, India 04. Handwritten Guru Granth Sahib manuscript kept at Gurdwara Mattan Sahib in Mattan (Martand), Kashmir, India. It is claimed that this particular manuscript dates back to the 17th century. It is known as the 'Sunehri' (golden) bir. \[Note: "Bir" is a Punjabi word which means manuscript or codex\] [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/df14a242-f930-4fe7-ae24-051591901c9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handwritten_Guru_Granth_Sahib_manuscript_kept_at_Gurdwara_Mattan_Sahib_in_Martand,_Kashmir,_India_04.jpg
### 1655
- **1655**, Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu) - Yueshan Daozong. Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu). China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1660–1709. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/edd8dd29-e7bd-4b9f-b980-ea53cfae58e8) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.353
- **1655**, Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu). Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1660–1709. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/542051bb-4af9-4d64-b7bd-f03215f55967) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.353
### 1680
- **1680**, Eight Lines of Musical Poetry of the Jajner Nauras (Rag Bhairav) of Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapur (verso). ). Southwestern India, Karnataka, Bijapur, 17th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, late 1600s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b931e2d9-ab43-4763-ab17-799639b893a7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.330.b
### 1687
- **1687**, Newton - Principia (1687), title, p. 5, color. Isaac Newton's first edition of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8f5310fa-0fca-403a-a973-fbf6b4732d52) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_-_Principia_(1687),_title,_p._5,_color.jpg
- **1687**, Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1687 (presentation copy to James II). Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (London: Joseph Streater, 1687). This the presentation copy given to James II by Newton. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d775464a-2905-4aa6-8d86-9400034cafdf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton%27s_Philosophiae_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica_1687_(presentation_copy_to_James_II).jpg
- **1687**, Newton's Principia title page. Title page of the 1687 first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, by Isaac Newton. PHILOSOPHIÆ NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA. Autore IS. NEWTON, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali. IMPRIMATUR. S. PEPYS, Reg. Soc. PRÆSES. Julii 5. 1686. LONDINI, Jussu Societatis Regiæ ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostat apud plures Biblio [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4be5a0bd-4d9f-40d8-a869-6e167456bd10) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton%27s_Principia_title_page.png
### 1690
- **1690**, Buddhist Manuscript. 1700. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5e67ecde-a24c-4337-84ea-68255fae5547) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.227
### 1700
- **1700**, Poem on Plum. (1392–1910). hanging scroll; ink on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1700s, 1800s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/33ce1f18-250d-4bb6-ab74-67739afd8799) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.138
- **1700**, Krym 1833. A Hebrew illuminated manuscript, a marriage contract or festival scroll, from the Braginsky Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/833a073b-b3a6-4548-b458-4d6c5275b7b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krym_1833.jpg
- **1700**, Kettuba Venezia 1684. A Hebrew illuminated manuscript, a marriage contract or festival scroll, from the Braginsky Collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d8b1c93-bc38-4e68-85aa-caf3079139ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kettuba_Venezia_1684.jpg
- **1700**, Poem on Plum - Yi Hwang. Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Korean Art). Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1700s, 1800s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eaad5eaf-ba32-47f6-b9d9-ec6d89d49c29) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.138
### 1702
- **1702**, Calligraphy (verso) - Ahmad al-Husaini. Calligraphy (verso). India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century. Gum tempera and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1702. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/abd85dcd-a3e7-4a06-82be-8cceb3ef89c8) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.350.b
### 1707
- **1707**, Bookplate: Edmund Poley of Badley. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1707. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e670ec34-d424-4d87-97fa-a2e7b98d4c47) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1422
### 1711
- **1711**, Titelkupfer Index librorum prohibitorum. Titelkupfer zum Index librorum prohibitorum von 1711 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dc24bddd-1aa1-4c66-9f03-6ad1442ef589) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titelkupfer_Index_librorum_prohibitorum.jpg
### 1725
- **1725**, Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso). ). Mughal India, probably Lucknow. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, mid-1700s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8e382be1-0fe8-4e3b-b495-507ca6559ca9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.348.b
- **1725**, Trissotin Reading to Philaminte, Bélise, and Armande (from act 3, scene 2 of Molière's "Les Femmes Savantes". Drawing in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Drawings). France, 18th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, probably c. 1725–1726. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/562ffbc0-b7d7-443d-9921-e4bf6e479fb7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.401
### 1750
- **1750**, Ausspru?che der philosophirenden Vernunft und des reinen Herzens u?ber die der Menschheit wichtigsten Gegensta. Style: Plain; Caption: Upper and lower cover and spine; Colour: Brown; Edge: Red [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8446f0a1-b1f7-4c45-8820-d275ccc9e543) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ausspru%3Fche_der_philosophirenden_Vernunft_und_des_reinen_Herzens_u%3Fber_die_der_Menschheit_wichtigsten_Gegensta%3Fnde_mit_besonderer_Ru%3Fcksicht_auf_die_kritische_Philosophie_zusammengetragen_au_-_Upper_and_lower_cover_and_spine_(Rb23a4334).jpg
- **1750**, Menniskans ra?ttigheter.-Stockholm - tryckte hos Controlleuren C. G. Cronland..., 1792. - Upper and lower cov. Style: Plain; Caption: Upper and lower cover and spine; Colour: Grey; Edge: Plain [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1439a4f8-be1b-4af0-a121-a69194683193) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menniskans_ra%3Fttigheter.-Stockholm_-_tryckte_hos_Controlleuren_C._G._Cronland_...,_1792._-_Upper_and_lower_cover_and_spine_(Rb23a4414).jpg
- **1750**, Vite... de gli huomini illustri Greci et Romani...tradotta per M ludovico Domenichi et altri - Upper cover (Da. Style: Pictorial; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Stained\|Blue [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4dfbd62e-eeab-4a46-bf69-6f5cbc4c2d0e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vite..._de_gli_huomini_illustri_Greci_et_Romani...tradotta_per_M_ludovico_Domenichi_et_altri_-_Upper_cover_(Davis884).jpg
### 1751
- **1751-06-15**, Encyclopedie de D'Alembert et Diderot - Premiere Page - ENC 1-NA5. Cover of the "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" (Encyclopaedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts) Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert (retouched version: annoying minor dark spots removed; two greater luminous spots (top + bottom right) removed; little perspective transformation of the whole page; little retouchi [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48966e04-2f0f-4aa5-b47b-fdc2ed7c5d46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclopedie_de_D%27Alembert_et_Diderot_-_Premiere_Page_-_ENC_1-NA5.jpg
### 1755
- **1755**, Scrolling Floral Vines (verso). ). India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century. Gum tempera and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1755. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bed3856c-db9d-4c10-b73f-023ecad58c1d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.343.b
### 1758
- **1758**, Index librorum prohibitorum Benedicti XIV 1758. Frontispicium. Frontispicio de la edición de 1758 del Index (Index librorum prohibitorum Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Benedicti XIV Pontificis Maximi jussu recognitus. Romae: Ex typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae. Grabado de «Gioan Fabri» (Giovanni Fabbri?-1777). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e702c104-5144-4430-aa11-2db3967ce1aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_librorum_prohibitorum_Benedicti_XIV_1758._Frontispicium.jpg
### 1760
- **1760**, Encyclopedie methodique - Arts aratoires, Pl27. A plate or page from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, whose engraved plates documented the trades, including printing itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f4b12b5-5ea5-463c-8d14-decd071bc4dd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclopedie_methodique_-_Arts_aratoires,_Pl27.png
- **1760**, Encyclopédie de Diderot et d’Alembert (château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard). A plate or page from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, whose engraved plates documented the trades, including printing itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/50fd0cdc-c074-4333-a37e-4c92316869b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclop%C3%A9die_de_Diderot_et_d%E2%80%99Alembert_(ch%C3%A2teau_de_Menthon-Saint-Bernard).jpg
- **1760**, Encyclopedie methodique - Arts aratoires, Pl42. A plate or page from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, whose engraved plates documented the trades, including printing itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c53e9a12-4cdd-429c-a7d6-5b5e66bec45b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclopedie_methodique_-_Arts_aratoires,_Pl42.png
### 1764
- **1764**, Encyclopedie frontispice full. Encyclopedie's frontispiece, full version. Engraving by Benoît Louis Prévost. Title page of the ' Encyclopedia or Reasoned Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts ( Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers in the original title) a vast encyclopedia published in the eighteenth century, in French, by a substantial group of intellectuals under the direction of Dider [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/43a3eda4-c6ab-43b0-b0f0-1545e5bdf6b9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclopedie_frontispice_full.jpg
### 1765
- **1765-06-15**, Jongeman meelezend met meisje-Rijksmuseum. Meisje zittend op trap van veranda, een brief lezend terwijl een achter haar staande jongen over haar schouder meeleest. Een gedicht in een wolkvormig cartouche langs de bovenkant van de prent. Label Line: mentioned on object Suzuki Harunobu (1725 - 1770), 1765 - 1770, kleurenhoutsnede; lijnblok in zwart met kleurblokken Collection: prenten; Japan (collectie) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/403fb286-e441-4578-bae3-4ea3e990f822) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jongeman_meelezend_met_meisje-Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1956-627.jpeg
- **1765**, Beginning verses of the Zafarnama from the "Patna Missal" illuminated Dasam Granth Manuscript [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ab37c475-4552-447b-9605-3e86fb8ff3d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beginning_verses_of_the_Zafarnama_from_the_%22Patna_Missal%22_illuminated_Dasam_Granth_Manuscript.jpg
### 1780
- **1780-06-15**, Zittende, lezende man. Identificatie Titel(s): Zittende, lezende man Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-1920-57 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville Datering: 1780 - 1849 Fysieke kenmerken: potlood Materiaal: papier potlood Afmetingen: h 137 mm × b 86 mm Onderwerp Wat: lezen Verwerving en rechten Credit line: Schenking van de heer F.G. Waller, Amsterdam Verwerving: schen [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b7e93f86-bc78-47e2-90c5-8ecba12a0252) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zittende,_lezende_man,_RP-T-1920-57.jpg
### 1788
- **1788-06-15**, Buste van een oude vrouw met een liedboek in haar handen. Identificatie Titel(s): Buste van een oude vrouw met een liedboek in haar handen Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-2015-26-818 Catalogusreferentie: kopie 2 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228, verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 4780 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Geyser (mogelijk), naar prent van: Daniel Nikolaus Chod [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c4f78c2d-e948-4d7c-88cc-8b03eb1d7061) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buste_van_een_oude_vrouw_met_een_liedboek_in_haar_handen,_RP-P-2015-26-818.jpg
### 1795
- **1795-06-15**, Nakomeling lezend over de historie van de tegenwoordige tijd, 1796 De Nakomelingschap by 't leezen der Histori. Identificatie Titel(s): Nakomeling lezend over de historie van de tegenwoordige tijd, 1796. De Nakomelingschap by 't leezen der Historie van den Tegens woordigen tyd (titel op object) Objecttype: prent boekillustratie spotprent Objectnummer: RP-P-OB-86.611 Catalogusreferentie: FMH 5450-e Atlas van Stolk 5947 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: Spotpre [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cfcb9806-deed-4b02-bd34-3453c2d7d335) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nakomeling_lezend_over_de_historie_van_de_tegenwoordige_tijd,_1796_De_Nakomelingschap_by_%27t_leezen_der_Historie_van_den_Tegens_woordigen_tyd_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-OB-86.611.jpg
### 1800
- **1800**, 07 Bodoni. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90405e82-96fb-4507-984f-439eca850921) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:07_Bodoni.jpg
- **1800**, Kammavacha: Buddhist Ordination Text. (Burma). Cover: lacquer, gilding, and glass appliqué on wood; leaves: lacquer a. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1800s. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a19d8bf5-8a92-426c-a746-1076c25676b7) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172
- **1800**, Courtesan Reading a Letter. Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Japanese Art). Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, early 1800s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a8f14c2-d7e6-423a-8eba-a29db0de744e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.261
### 1802
- **1802**, Giovanni Battista Bodoni (1740-1813), graveur et typographe italien, 1802, ND5025. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/846d54a7-86f1-4e3e-8500-b6f04746b673) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Bodoni_(1740-1813),_graveur_et_typographe_italien,_1802,_ND5025.jpg
- **1802**, The Kōrin Picture Book. Bound Volume in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Japanese Art). Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1800s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d43a82b0-47a6-4cd3-bb5a-d4ee0dd92d8e) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.118
### 1807
- **1807**, Louis-Léopold Boilly - The Reading of the Bulletin of the Grand... - 74-1989 - Saint Louis Art Museum. A painting of people reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/99ee8168-57bf-405a-91d2-139bb90420b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-L%C3%A9opold_Boilly_-_The_Reading_of_the_Bulletin_of_the_Grand..._-_74-1989_-_Saint_Louis_Art_Museum.jpg
### 1811
- **1811**, Calligraphy in Running Style based on Wang Bo's Essay on Tengwang Pavilion. Calligraphy in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Chinese Art). China, Changbai, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1811. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/20ddff03-77cb-4f4e-865d-255eb643b6d8) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.42
### 1817
- **1817**, Allegorische verheerlijking van de boekdrukker Giovanni Battista Bodoni, RP-P-2010-9. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0f66bb59-dccf-43bd-b558-d9def7ddd6b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allegorische_verheerlijking_van_de_boekdrukker_Giovanni_Battista_Bodoni,_RP-P-2010-9.jpg
- **1817**, Allegorische verheerlijking van de boekdrukker Giovanni Battista Bodoni, RP-P-2010-9 (cropped) - Rijksmuseum. Material relating to Giambattista Bodoni, the Parma punchcutter and printer whose type specimens defined the modern face. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dc5a8af7-dbf1-46c0-a7ab-f4df4b08278b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allegorische_verheerlijking_van_de_boekdrukker_Giovanni_Battista_Bodoni,_RP-P-2010-9_(cropped).jpg
### 1818
- **1818**, Kind krijgt leesles van generaal. Identificatie Titel(s): Kind krijgt leesles van generaal Valeur, malheur, vertu. Le gxxxxal. montrant à lire au fils d'un de ses anciens soldats (titel op object) Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1905-3583 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Jean Henri Marlet (vermeld op object), drukker: Charles Philibert de, Comte de La [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d739b75c-6a9d-431b-8d48-a141ac7d2ffe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kind_krijgt_leesles_van_generaal,_RP-P-1905-3583.jpg
- **1818**, Lezende man, zittend aan tafel. Identificatie Titel(s): Lezende man, zittend aan tafel Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-FM-116 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: Christiaan Julius Lodewijk Portman Datering: 1818 Fysieke kenmerken: rood krijt Materiaal: papier krijt Afmetingen: h 269 mm × b 264 mm Onderwerp Wat: male sex; mansitting figure Verwerving en rechten Credit line: Bruikleen van de gemeente Amsterdam Verwerving [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5830408a-dd16-402e-b946-7e66f30a64de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lezende_man,_zittend_aan_tafel,_RP-T-FM-116.jpg
### 1819
- **1819**, Kinder und Hausmärchen - 2nd edition. An illustrated edition of Grimm’s fairy tales. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/58c4a6f4-6c9b-4b7b-904a-bb0c45d0b4e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinder_und_Hausm%C3%A4rchen_-_2nd_edition.jpg
### 1822
- **1822**, Kinder und Hausmärchen - 3nd edition. An illustrated edition of Grimm’s fairy tales. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/beca27b3-af1e-45fe-97c7-455b73fb078e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinder_und_Hausm%C3%A4rchen_-_3nd_edition.jpg
### 1823
- **1823**, 1823 Marbled paper from Amsterdam with Library of Congress bookplate page 2. 1823 Marbled paper from Amsterdam with Library of Congress bookplate [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d0efdada-9537-4335-8073-9e4c5d6a489c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1823_Marbled_paper_from_Amsterdam_with_Library_of_Congress_bookplate_page_2.jpg
### 1824
- **1824**, Woman Reading to Two Children. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Spain. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1824–25. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fcb08fcd-e521-4699-b608-bdb51993547d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.171
### 1827
- **1827**, 83 House Wren cropped-to-the-plate-only. A plate from Audubon’s The Birds of America, the double-elephant folio issued 1827-1838. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/68441afd-2348-44c6-bd9e-c99126361c3c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83_House_Wren_cropped-to-the-plate-only.jpg
- **1827**, "Azure Warbler" in Audubon's Birds of America. A plate from Audubon’s The Birds of America, the double-elephant folio issued 1827-1838. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b98c43e3-7be9-4c14-8a5b-272b308353cd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Azure_Warbler%22_in_Audubon%27s_Birds_of_America.jpg
### 1830
- **1830**, SDIM3878MKGUtamaroDetail. Material from the Japanese woodblock production process, key blocks, preparatory drawings and proofs, showing how a printed book or sheet was actually made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/06de7914-b685-4b28-8729-6330cd82c7f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDIM3878MKGUtamaroDetail.jpg
- **1830**, Ukiyo-e dsc04679. Material from the Japanese woodblock production process, key blocks, preparatory drawings and proofs, showing how a printed book or sheet was actually made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/421049b0-4b21-4095-9d79-459a04d85dcf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukiyo-e_dsc04679.jpg
- **1830**, Kiatagawa Utamaro. Daikokuten drawing himself. Material from the Japanese woodblock production process, key blocks, preparatory drawings and proofs, showing how a printed book or sheet was actually made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/57939a60-23ff-4ff8-9189-dabae41202f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kiatagawa_Utamaro._Daikokuten_drawing_himself.jpg
- **1830**, SDIM3877MKGUtamaroDetail. Material from the Japanese woodblock production process, key blocks, preparatory drawings and proofs, showing how a printed book or sheet was actually made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/63631b93-05d2-4fa9-a6bd-89ebb7bab5a8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SDIM3877MKGUtamaroDetail.jpg
- **1830**, Ukiyo-e dsc04680. Material from the Japanese woodblock production process, key blocks, preparatory drawings and proofs, showing how a printed book or sheet was actually made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8d08f1a7-cc58-443b-9906-b67c4c1ab45f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukiyo-e_dsc04680.jpg
### 1833
- **1833**, AudubonCarolinaParakeet2. A plate from Audubon’s The Birds of America, the double-elephant folio issued 1827-1838. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/55dc63d4-10dd-4324-a850-2ea2b0153c08) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudubonCarolinaParakeet2.jpg
### 1843
- **1843**, Historical Works of Venerable Bede vol. 2 - Manuscript sample. Wikimedia Commons file from Illuminated manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2170f274-6a25-449a-8af5-3f290a23830d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Works_of_Venerable_Bede_vol._2_-_Manuscript_sample.jpg
### 1845
- **1845**, Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith Wellcome V0006841. Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', whilst a baliff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Edward Matthew Ward; James Boswell; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Bellin; Samuel Johnson [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/130d301f-d98e-491a-9212-b5bfb34e644b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Samuel_Johnson_reading_the_manuscript_of_Oliver_Goldsmith_Wellcome_V0006841.jpg
### 1847
- **1847**, Brieflezende vrouw, RP-P-OB-29.596. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/003a5b7c-4074-4655-99c2-33fd6d422090) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brieflezende_vrouw,_RP-P-OB-29.596.jpg
### 1850
- **1850**, Aucto nuevo del Santo Nacimiento de Christo nuestro Senor. - Upper cover (c63b2). Style: Armorial\|Hand motif; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b4c163fd-6f68-4f75-ae85-0afd47c01269) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aucto_nuevo_del_Santo_Nacimiento_de_Christo_nuestro_Senor._-_Upper_cover_(c63b2).jpg
- **1850**, Auto do dia do Juizo - Upper cover (c63b19). Style: Armorial\|Hand motif; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48ba3042-1ac2-4cfc-b341-238d7ae4d073) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auto_do_dia_do_Juizo_-_Upper_cover_(c63b19).jpg
- **1850**, Auto dos Escrivaens do Pelourinho. - Upper cover (c63b24). Style: Armorial\|Hand motif; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Green; Edge: Unspecified [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/46f2564c-57ef-42db-b88e-d04684879cff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auto_dos_Escrivaens_do_Pelourinho._-_Upper_cover_(c63b24).jpg
### 1855
- **1855**, Inscription in album- "Daniel Jeanes book 1855". Title: Inscription in album: "Daniel Jeanes book 1855" Abstract/medium: 1 page: graphite; page 31 x 20 cm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/84a1e37c-9c0e-40ab-8eae-220e0fd52c70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inscription_in_album-_%22Daniel_Jeanes_book_1855%22_LCCN2016647933.jpg
### 1859
- **1859**, Origin of Species title page. Cropped and rotated version of File:Origin of Species.jpg, which is of the title page and the facing page of the 1859 Murray edition of the Origin of species by Charles Darwin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c4f2236a-f844-4258-9a6c-9e4d829be711) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg
### 1860
- **1860**, Wood Block (France), 1860–70 (CH 18407525). Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/693c34d8-740b-435b-9e55-9f788808f8cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_Block_(France),_1860%E2%80%9370_(CH_18407525).jpg
- **1860**, Karl Marx. Preparatory calculations for Das Kapital (2). Material from an early edition of Marx’s Das Kapital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cef5a7cf-63fa-4a5e-b9d8-8ee5b453bcb3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Marx._Preparatory_calculations_for_Das_Kapital_(2).jpg
### 1865
- **1865-06-15**, Krantenlezer. Identificatie Titel(s): Krantenlezer Objecttype: tekening Objectnummer: RP-T-1949-125 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: tekenaar: Jac van Looij Datering: 1865 - 1930 Fysieke kenmerken: zwart krijt op geruit papier Materiaal: geruit papier krijt Afmetingen: h 111 mm × b 171 mm Onderwerp Wat: lezen Verwerving en rechten Verwerving: aankoop 1949 Copyright: Publiek domein [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3c5621b5-aff5-4529-8853-cd754fd323de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krantenlezer,_RP-T-1949-125.jpg
### 1867
- **1867**, Marx - Das Kapital - 1867 - DHM. Material from an early edition of Marx’s Das Kapital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7ea07cbc-1e58-4056-9b59-56268e4a18e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marx_-_Das_Kapital_-_1867_-_DHM.JPG
### 1868
- **1868**, Platt Powell Ryder - The Illustrated Newspaper - Google Art Project. A painting of people reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/35b6c67e-5aa5-4e87-bd40-0f0c01ea91a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Platt_Powell_Ryder_-_The_Illustrated_Newspaper_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
### 1872
- **1872**, Le diable imprimeur (NYPL b12390850-490672). \* Additional impressions of B51 are listed with B168 which is on the same plate. Admission is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections. Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection. Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900. B27 and B51 were formerly in the collection of Frederick Keppel and are inscribed to him by the artist. Holdings checked in departmental copy of Gustave Bourca [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f938dc4d-3dd7-47e1-b917-04cd34f8bfb8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_diable_imprimeur_(NYPL_b12390850-490672).jpg
### 1873
- **1873**, Grigoriy Myasoyedov Reading of the 1861 Manifesto 1873. A painting of people reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e7021293-af31-4324-ba88-a302d06cfa03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grigoriy_Myasoyedov_Reading_of_the_1861_Manifesto_1873.jpg
- **1873**, Reading. Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Modern European Painting and Sculpture). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1873. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/baed1b7a-97d1-442f-9a76-95773deb7df6) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.89
### 1875
- **1875**, Das Kapital. Material from an early edition of Marx’s Das Kapital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b3b34bd8-5660-4e52-aee9-64778bfbb872) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Kapital_(39184246055).jpg
### 1876
- **1876**, De Vinne 1876 - Punch and matrix. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/21a92688-2b6d-4f04-8a9a-01894c7b08e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_Vinne_1876_-_Punch_and_matrix.jpg
- **1876**, Sigurd the Volsung p389 detail. A page or binding from the Kelmscott Press, William Morris’s Arts and Crafts press that revived fine bookmaking in the 1890s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bc9b8c5d-1fcc-412f-8392-3d76ebc89537) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sigurd_the_Volsung_p389_detail.jpg
### 1877
- **1877-06-15**, Jonge vrouw leest een brief. Identificatie Titel(s): Jonge vrouw leest een brief Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1909-3265 Catalogusreferentie: Collectie Rijksmuseum-2(3) Opschriften / Merken: annotatie, recto rechtsonder, handgeschreven in potlood: ‘2ème’ (Staataanduiding, 2ème état (tweede staat).) Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Louise Danse (eigenhandig gesigneerd) Datering: 1877 - 1909 Materiaal en Techniek [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e984ea77-fb50-4591-b6d1-e92d4f2b7b2a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonge_vrouw_leest_een_brief,_RP-P-1909-3265.jpg
- **1877**, Lezend meisje aan tafel. Identificatie Titel(s): Lezend meisje aan tafel Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1904-1635 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: In haar rechterhand heeft zij een tak. Op tafel staan vazen met bloemen. Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Jan Mesker (vermeld op object), naar ontwerp van: Jan Mesker (vermeld op object), drukker: Samuel Lankhout & [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2572b169-f4a9-4b8e-a47e-84a89725cc03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lezend_meisje_aan_tafel,_RP-P-1904-1635.jpg
### 1880
- **1880**, Photo A public scribe at work on a street in Khartoum 1956 - Touring Club Italiano BBT 092. A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/09db6124-2c9c-47d8-ba73-bde766217ae2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_A_public_scribe_at_work_on_a_street_in_Khartoum_1956_-_Touring_Club_Italiano_BBT_092.jpg
- **1880**, Scribe accroupi Saqquara Louvre E3023-01a. A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ee6ea70-e8a0-4fce-ac1e-d223341a2189) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scribe_accroupi_Saqquara_Louvre_E3023-01a.jpg
- **1880**, Books on the Out-of-Doors LCCN2015646685. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/33d732e6-9bbd-4aa3-8997-905a2ff1fe8d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Books_on_the_Out-of-Doors_LCCN2015646685.jpg
- **1880**, Karl Nieschlag lesendes Mädchen. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3f1f94d4-500d-4a04-b3f1-fbe3ca30b4e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Nieschlag_lesendes_M%C3%A4dchen.jpg
- **1880**, Jewish scribe writing the Torah. A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/53046ec8-ce8c-47f9-93fd-c13bc9855be8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_scribe_writing_the_Torah.jpg
- **1880**, Reading the news (1918) -José Malhoa (1855 - 1933). A painting of people reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/69801511-f4c5-4f4c-9414-c0b0c6291639) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_the_news_(1918)_-Jos%C3%A9_Malhoa_(1855_-_1933)_(17045026200).jpg
- **1880**, Books, the ideal gift LCCN2015646684. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af61be19-2597-43ab-a2b7-65569149ca14) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Books,_the_ideal_gift_LCCN2015646684.jpg
- **1880**, "Little Girl Reading" Sculpture at SCPL. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c6d59f06-cafa-4152-9b4f-c9ac29b6fa81) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Little_Girl_Reading%22_Sculpture_at_SCPL.jpg
- **1880**, Assyrian wall relief showing a scribe and a horseman trampling enemies. From Anah, Iraq. Iraq Museum. A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca7166e1-10d8-4499-b3e2-7d9ad6116634) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assyrian_wall_relief_showing_a_scribe_and_a_horseman_trampling_enemies._From_Anah,_Iraq._Iraq_Museum.jpg
- **1880**, Model of a Granary with Scribes 1 (ca. 1981–1975 B.C.). A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cb61dde5-5a5b-48c6-8da7-7f6932e954c6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Model_of_a_Granary_with_Scribes_1_(ca._1981%E2%80%931975_B.C.).jpg
- **1880**, Florence Nightingale, seate, reading. Wellcome L0017561. A depiction of reading in art, painting, print or poster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e50e88a2-a635-4c51-988d-d27a496a269b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florence_Nightingale,_seate,_reading._Wellcome_L0017561.jpg
- **1880**, Sarah Bernhardt Reclining on a Divan, Reading. Drawing in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Drawings). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1885–1890. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/12c2eacc-61d5-4211-955b-b05724f57e2a) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.118
### 1882
- **1882**, Franz Rumpler Der Brief 1882. A painting of people reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/219dba98-9053-4f7a-9d97-839f8f4f15f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Rumpler_Der_Brief_1882.jpg
### 1883
- **1883**, Girl Reading - Robert Frederick Blum. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). America. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1883. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/632e3123-ffb2-4859-84f2-1715b864d39c) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1965
### 1884
- **1884**, Literacy in Austria-Hungary (1880). Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/788c86f0-4240-4180-9b35-327ce1adbdd1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Literacy_in_Austria-Hungary_(1880).JPG
### 1885
- **1885**, Henry Spencer Ashbee - Index Librorum Prohibitorum 3 - Catena Librorum Tacendorum. Title page of Henry Spencer Ashbee: Index Librorum Prohibitorum 3 - Catena Librorum Tacendorum [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/507e9c6d-ac90-4968-9f05-32d3a26d6aec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Spencer_Ashbee_-_Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum_3_-_Catena_Librorum_Tacendorum.png
### 1890
- **1890-06-15**, Karácsond, a Beretvás-kastély könyvtára. A felvétel 1895-1899 között készült. a Beretvás-kastély könyvtára. A felvétel 1895-1899 között készült. A kép forrását kérjük így adja meg: Fortepan / Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet: HU.BFL.XV.19.d.1.12.047 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d5dcd068-313e-4044-8b19-ab3a8cb5d26f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kar%C3%A1csond,_a_Beretv%C3%A1s-kast%C3%A9ly_k%C3%B6nyvt%C3%A1ra._A_felv%C3%A9tel_1895-1899_k%C3%B6z%C3%B6tt_k%C3%A9sz%C3%BClt._-_Fortepan_83351.jpg
- **1890-06-15**, In Bamberg, the first printing press in nowadays Bavaria was built and the first German book was printed in 14. 61. After the painting by Rothbart. (Albrecht Pfister workshop, sitting clergian depicted is Georg I. von Schaumberg) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9187846a-7746-42e9-bfaa-e61aaf0dae37) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_Bamberg,_the_first_printing_press_in_nowadays_Bavaria_was_built_and_the_first_German_book_was_printed_in_1461._After_the_painting_by_Rothbart.jpg
- **1890-06-15**, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary b37 374-2. Illustration from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890, 1907) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f35e48ca-c414-418c-882c-79a2f41e54d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brockhaus_and_Efron_Encyclopedic_Dictionary_b37_374-2.jpg
### 1891
- **1891**, KelmscottPressColophone. A page or binding from the Kelmscott Press, William Morris’s Arts and Crafts press that revived fine bookmaking in the 1890s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f632b8a3-677c-4272-be0e-05328fa2447e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KelmscottPressColophone.jpg
- **1891**, Carnegie library competition, Pittsburgh, Pa. Preliminary study - - William E. Greenawalt, archt., New York. Title: Carnegie library competition, Pittsburgh, Pa. Preliminary study / / William E. Greenawalt, archt., New York. Abstract/medium: 1 drawing: photomechanical print; sheet 19 x 22 cm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c97f01f5-301a-40a8-a773-92a5b62748ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnegie_library_competition,_Pittsburgh,_Pa._Preliminary_study_-_-_William_E._Greenawalt,_archt.,_New_York._LCCN2014650159.jpg
- **1891**, Dictionary typography symbols. An old dictionary's use of typographic symbols for less common (ᚼ), technical (⚙), nautical (⚓), and military (⚔) terms. From "Fransk-svensk ordbok" (1891), a French-Swedish translation dictionary, page 601. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/54915ec8-e19a-4a11-88aa-84c51f42c421) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dictionary_typography_symbols.jpg
### 1892
- **1892**, The Order of Chivalry Cover Page. A page or binding from the Kelmscott Press, William Morris’s Arts and Crafts press that revived fine bookmaking in the 1890s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/16e40a68-6d3b-4e9e-a8ed-afc9def32496) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Order_of_Chivalry_Cover_Page.jpg
- **1892**, 097 - Escorial - die Bibliothek. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e3f3c844-49cc-40fe-9020-1feae29ae456) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:097_-_Escorial_-_die_Bibliothek.jpg
### 1893
- **1893**, Kelmscott Manor News from Nowhere. A page or binding from the Kelmscott Press, William Morris’s Arts and Crafts press that revived fine bookmaking in the 1890s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b65a22a-c94d-48eb-90ed-bfd5d9b008fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kelmscott_Manor_News_from_Nowhere.jpg
- **1893**, The Library of Congress, Washington. Smithmeyer & Pelz, architect. \[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.\] \[February 14, 1893\] 1 drawing: ink and graphite on linen; sheet 73 x 126 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Sheet no. 533. Original drawing number and classification: 533/D (Ironwork). Subjects: Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--1890-1900. Ironwork--1890-1900. Domes--1890-1900. Lanterns [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/16c4a95b-a89d-48ce-a74d-2a50f86c7178) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Library_of_Congress,_Washington,_D_C_-_(LOC)_(54585721922).jpg
- **1893**, The Library of Congress, Washington, a second view. Smithmeyer & Pelz, architect. \[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.\] \[1893\] 1 drawing: ink on linen; in folder 102 x 152 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Caption on drawing: "Plaster and stuccowork. Reading room, dome & lantern." Sheet no. 615. Original drawing number and classification: 615/F (Plaster & stucco work). Original materials served by appointment only. Subjects: Library o [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cc7361d1-50fe-4089-99f6-57ddc9df2bb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Library_of_Congress,_Washington,_D_C_-_(LOC)_(54586812283).jpg
### 1895
- **1895**, Josef Löwy Schriftgiesserei Poppelbaum Wien c1895. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ee3ca08c-73af-4ea6-aae5-34b3cc6e932c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josef_L%C3%B6wy_Schriftgiesserei_Poppelbaum_Wien_c1895.jpg
- **1895-11-12**, César Antéchrist title page. Title page to Alfred Jarry's 1895 publication of César Antéchrist, the play that preceded his most famous work, Ubu Roi. Jarry set the typeface by hand in an unconventional style that would be emulated by mant avant-garde book artists in years to come. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4536acf3-7c8a-4d35-9c53-fd473318297c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%C3%A9sar_Ant%C3%A9christ_title_page.jpg
### 1896
- **1896**, Embroidered binding of Chaucer's Floure and the Leafe. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4d179d9-8e2c-4a41-a1cf-cd1caad6163b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embroidered_binding_of_Chaucer%27s_Floure_and_the_Leafe.jpg
- **1896**, Young Woman Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). France, 19th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1896. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/25173ecd-5226-4348-aad7-a5b21e2c238b) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.228
### 1898
- **1898**, Bookplate: Elizabeth M. Leete. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1898. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8003d324-5f69-4fd1-a037-9a3747edd968) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1369
### 1899
- **1899**, Bookplate: Ward Cameron. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1899. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c800730e-c4c4-485d-8f0b-a7eb638fbcd3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1326
- **1899-11-30**, Banned Books Week Brookfield Library 2008. Banned Books Week at Brookfield Library (2008) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/95da6372-b2e6-4771-8564-2f06af9165f6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banned_Books_Week_Brookfield_Library_2008.jpg
### 1900
- **1900**, A Two Early has reading new papers and magazines. A photograph or picture of men reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/29191298-b05c-455d-a0a3-6a26943292cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Two_Early_has_reading_new_papers_and_magazines.jpg
- **1900**, Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students in the library reading room LCCN2017843202. A photograph or picture of men reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4b55ebd0-5a9c-41eb-86a8-e5e002ae7a7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daytona_Beach,_Florida._Bethune-Cookman_College._Students_in_the_library_reading_room_LCCN2017843202.jpg
- **1900**, ErnestHareReadingNewspaper. A photograph or picture of men reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7245a4fa-5941-4e11-8afc-ab82134f66ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ErnestHareReadingNewspaper.jpg
- **1900**, A man reading a magazine. A photograph or picture of men reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d040a79-bfa5-4b9d-b530-281cfe3941fc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_man_reading_a_magazine.jpg
- **1900-06-15**, Card Division of the Library of Congress 3c18631u original. People working in Card Division in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b23cdbe7-3fff-43db-ab40-e1f581b2aa13) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Card_Division_of_the_Library_of_Congress_3c18631u_original.jpg
- **1900**, Bookplate: Abbie B. Stone. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1900. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ebfe8878-488c-442c-90d4-f63beae52f4d) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1399
### 1901
- **1901**, Bookplate: John W. Lowe. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1901. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/81e9b3f1-0c6a-4dbc-8954-200f62c842d9) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1370
### 1902
- **1902**, Bookplate: Walter Dutton Baker. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1902. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3dbe744b-84b2-4e9f-99cf-933fed62c4fd) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1319
### 1903
- **1903**, Dragon and Orchard. 1908. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/842cb7f6-a0de-46c5-8efa-44e020649bf3) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.325
- **1903**, Dragon and Orchard - 1999.325.1. Woodblock in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). America. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1908. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3d4d80b3-093e-4dfe-83c0-9422de7cd3d0) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.325.1
- **1903**, Dragon and Orchard - 1999.325.3. Woodblock in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). America. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1908. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e47419a6-9020-48d4-851e-4cd205b16e51) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.325.3
- **1903**, Dragon and Orchard - 1999.325.4. Woodblock in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). America. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1908. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8559adea-ace3-4a91-8f37-0103b378b733) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.325.4
- **1903**, Linotype Machine. One of the first linotype machines installed in the Printing Office, Government Print Office, ca. 1903. R21572926 AAUR W3549 111 P158 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1ab65bdf-d1c3-4c42-ab78-67003b1401e0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_Machine.jpg
- **1903-06-15**, V. C. Hart Operating His Printing Press. Dr. Hart operating his printing press at Kiating, the first to be used in China west of Hankow. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/35765356-36f2-4b58-b305-6a130580af46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V._C._Hart_Operating_His_Printing_Press.png
- **1903**, Bookplate: Ella Huntting. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9b97c08f-2a64-414a-8891-b5a4298a2cae) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1358
- **1903**, Bookplate: Elizabeth Huntting. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a94e4ec1-56ac-4b59-b55a-f873947088ec) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1359
- **1903**, Bookplate: Leonora Elizabeth Phipard. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1903. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/67f5aa97-ef45-478e-8b83-a821510cf2a4) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1388
### 1904
- **1904**, Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. Wm. Binder, architect - - John Parry, photographer. Title: Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. Wm. Binder, architect / / John Parry, photographer. Abstract/medium: 1 photograph: photomechanical print; sheet 24 x 33 cm. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/748ff039-8327-4639-a8f5-918a85201f1b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnegie_Library,_San_Jose,_Cal._Wm._Binder,_architect_-_-_John_Parry,_photographer._LCCN2014650172.jpg
- **1904-06-15**, TAFT, SECRETARY. W. AS SEC. READING AT DESK. Title: TAFT, SECRETARY. W. AS SEC. READING AT DESK Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 8 x 10 in. or smaller [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/404de8a3-9a64-4e15-ab1c-fe9a41e0d977) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TAFT,_SECRETARY._W._AS_SEC._READING_AT_DESK_LCCN2016856228.jpg
### 1905
- **1905-04-18**, Andrew Carnegie letter in 1905 to establish a library at Syracuse University. Carnegie letter, 1905. James Roscoe Day Papers, University Archives, Special Collections Research Center. Letter from the office of Andrew Carnegie confirming his commitment to providing construction costs for a new library once the University was able to raise the required matching endowment. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d1accf53-86ae-4aa6-adad-346459b46618) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Carnegie_letter_in_1905_to_establish_a_library_at_Syracuse_University.png
- **1905**, Bookplate: Rudolf R. V. Hoschek. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints).. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1905. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2cd0c1d2-c7e3-4cc0-9dc2-79a41ac79769) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.1357
- **1905**, Woman Sitting Reading. Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Prints). Belgium, 20th century. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, 1905. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5c56e123-38ef-43a0-92ef-4a914c122918) Source: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.352
### 1907
- **1907**, Diamond Sutra of 868 AD - The Diamond Sutra (868), frontispiece and text. Diamond Sutra of 868 AD The image depicts the frontispiece to the world's earliest dated printed book, the Chinese translation of the Buddhist text the 'Diamond Sutra'. This consists of a scroll, over 16 feet long, made up of a long series of printed pages. Printed in China in 868 AD, it was found in the Dunhuang Caves in 1907, in the North Western province of Gansu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0756637e-ff28-4c6b-9346-b3ebf871c2a1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diamond_Sutra_of_868_AD_-_The_Diamond_Sutra_(868),_frontispiece_and_text_-_BL_Or._8210-P.2.jpg
### 1908
- **1908-06-15**, Interior Library. Title: Interior Library Abstract/medium: 1 negative: glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1cfcf780-f82f-49e9-86bb-f6aff44438a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_Library_LCCN2016821091.jpg
### 1910
- **1910**, A corner of the stamp branch, Stamp Printing Branch, Government Print Office, ca. 1910. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4fcede5f-e4e8-49f7-98a3-597de261ab9c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_corner_of_the_stamp_branch,_Stamp_Printing_Branch,_Government_Print_Office,_ca._1910.jpg
### 1911
- **1911-06-15**, Vienesse Café- In the Reading Room (Wiener Café- Im Lesezimmer) MET DP849665. Vienesse Café: In the Reading Room. Lithograph by Moriz Jung [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5afd125c-db26-4499-abf5-d8dd84e71380) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vienesse_Caf%C3%A9-_In_the_Reading_Room_(Wiener_Caf%C3%A9-_Im_Lesezimmer)_MET_DP849665.jpg
### 1912
- **1912**, Exlibris de Joaquín V. González. Exibris de Joaquín V. González dibujado por Emilio Coutaret (1863 - 1949) en 1912. Lleva la leyenda Nemo Nec Nihil (Nadie Ni Nada). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e50e6aac-0200-4a02-8e89-878e02613423) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exlibris_de_Joaqu%C3%ADn_V._Gonz%C3%A1lez.png
### 1914
- **1914**, Linotype PK-F-A.01555. Title Linotype PK-F-A.01555 Creator/other Andriesse, Emmy (1914-1953) Shelfmark PK-F-A.01555 Subject (topical) Men (male humans)Typesetters (people) Subject (geographic) Nederland Other version Contactafdruk in contactalbum IIA, p. 61 Note Werkzaamheden in een letterzetterij, een typografisch bedrijf. Language No linguistic content Country No place, unknown, or undetermined Extent scan Published/c [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/14833a2f-9047-4409-a5d3-29291486f7ee) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_PK-F-A.01555.jpg
### 1915
- **1915**, Interior of the Famous Library at Louvain destroyed during World War I. A destroyed or ruined library. The Leuven university library was burned by German troops in 1914 and again in 1940. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a71c2365-f4cc-4959-879b-1438bf1f63ae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_the_Famous_Library_at_Louvain_destroyed_during_World_War_I.jpg
- **1915**, Reading Room. Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides Item Number: P217:set 028 022 You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here. Want more? You can find more digital resources online. We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical versi [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4670d48-07a4-490d-9263-197f68d1b7c4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Room_(5021745350).jpg
### 1916
- **1916-12-31**, 1916 The Evanescent City, George Sterling's best-selling book [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a3efc0c-35ec-40d9-b07e-d91ab065c4cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1916_The_Evanescent_City,_George_Sterling%27s_best-selling_book.png
### 1918
- **1918**, The Louvain university library after the 1914 fire. A destroyed or ruined library. The Leuven university library was burned by German troops in 1914 and again in 1940. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a79e2207-c258-4dcd-a774-53a26132b48a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Louvain_university_library_after_the_1914_fire.png
- **1918**, Louvain university library's main hall after the 1914 fire. A destroyed or ruined library. The Leuven university library was burned by German troops in 1914 and again in 1940. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be261534-3109-406c-8cba-5c53ee81b7eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louvain_university_library%27s_main_hall_after_the_1914_fire.png
- **1918**, Campfire Girls' Outing - title page. Title page of "Campfire Girls' Outing; or, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer in Camp." ( https://archive.org/details/CampFireGirlsOuting ) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/790b9ae3-60e0-496b-9f9b-4e9390d6976a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campfire_Girls%27_Outing_-_title_page.png
### 1933
- **1933-05-06**, Nazi Germany 1933-05-06 Hirschfeld Sexualwissenschaft Institut Berlin Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist Physi. Photo taken during the nation-wide "Action against un-German Spirit" (German: Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist ), conducted by the German Student Union, in Berlin in the spring of 1933, which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ( Säuberung ) by fire in the Nazi book burnings in several cities in Nazi Germany ( Bücherverbrennung 1933 in Deutschland ). Organized by the Nazi party ( N [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/704fcb20-6781-4a6b-a112-ec564f83511a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Germany_1933-05-06_Hirschfeld_Sexualwissenschaft_Institut_Berlin_Aktion_wider_den_undeutschen_Geist_Physical_exercise_students_collecting_unwanted_books_for_burning_Truck_Nazi_flags_Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe_3_1_0_17_12425_34426_PD.jpg
- **1933-05-06**, Nazi Germany 1933-05 Books and publications earmarked for burning from the Hirschfeld Institute looted by stud. Photo taken during the nation-wide "Action against un-German Spirit" (German: Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist ), conducted by the German Student Union, in Berlin in the spring of 1933, which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ( Säuberung ) by fire in the Nazi book burnings in several cities in Nazi Germany ( Bücherverbrennung 1933 in Deutschland ). Organized by the Nazi party ( N [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b5936b6d-0e61-4d97-acf4-cff734d630e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Germany_1933-05_Books_and_publications_earmarked_for_burning_from_the_Hirschfeld_Institute_looted_by_students_and_SA_stormtroopers_Robert_Sennecke_Int_Ill.-Verlag_Berlin_Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe_3_1_0_17_12421_34422_Public_domain.jpg
- **1933-05-10**, Nazi Germany 1933-05-10 Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist Book burning Opera Square Berlin Goebbels speech SS. Photo of Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, giving a speech on the Opera Square ( Opernplatz, Bebelplatz ) in Berlin on May 10, 1933, taken during the nation-wide "Action against un-German Spirit" (German: Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist ), conducted by the German Student Union, in the spring of 1933, which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ( Säuberu [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/616120f8-6345-424c-9907-5e52d5f21a46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Germany_1933-05-10_Aktion_wider_den_undeutschen_Geist_Book_burning_Opera_Square_Berlin_Goebbels_speech_SS_SA_etc_New_York_Times_Bild-Dienst_Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe_3_1_0_17_12426_34427_Public_domain.jpg
- **1933-05-11**, Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14597, Berlin, Opernplatz, Bücherverbrennung. For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Die öffentliche Verbrennung undeutscher Schriften und Bücher auf dem Opernplatz Unter den Linden in Berlin, durch Studenten der Berliner Universitäten! Die von den Studenten eingesammelten undeutschen Schriften und Bücher, werden öffentl [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/973177cb-6570-4464-b875-b6e6ec4a2299) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14597,_Berlin,_Opernplatz,_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung.jpg
- **1933**, Campo de'Fiori 1553 Talmud burning memorial board. Book burning, the deliberate destruction of books by fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/063631b8-bd8f-4383-90f6-16a1c0172bd6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campo_de%27Fiori_1553_Talmud_burning_memorial_board.jpg
- **1933**, TPL - ignite minds not books. Book burning, the deliberate destruction of books by fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66862b2d-743b-48aa-87ae-24f05f647654) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TPL_-_ignite_minds_not_books.jpg
- **1933**, A burning book 📖. Book burning, the deliberate destruction of books by fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7d523c1c-941a-4b0a-a9af-bc6b5f474d3f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_burning_book_%F0%9F%93%96.jpg
- **1933**, Book blockade2. Book burning, the deliberate destruction of books by fire. Low-resolution scan retained as scarce primary material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ec096702-310a-4e37-aaa1-823057989cac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_blockade2_(4221430170).jpg
- **1933**, Nazi Germany 1933-05 Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist Hirschfeld Institute library plundering for burning of. Nazi SA ( Sturmabteilung ) stormtroopers in a truck loaded with banned books and publications (deemed dissenting in Germany). during the ceremonial book burning at Opernplatz in Berlin on May 10, 1933, where unwanted books were burned as a Nazi propaganda event. Photo taken during the nation-wide "Action against un-German Spirit" (German: Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist ), conducted by the Germ [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/205c0145-80d8-4163-be6f-c4abc423625d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Germany_1933-05_Aktion_wider_den_undeutschen_Geist_Hirschfeld_Institute_library_plundering_for_burning_of_unwanted_books_and_publications_SA_Sturmabteilung_Truck_Propaganda_action_Narodowe_Archiwum_Cyfrowe_3_1_0_17_12428_34429_PD.jpg
### 1934
- **1934-06-15**, Abram with book in hand, reading scroll (Magella) with phylacteries on forehead LOC matpc.19299. Title: Abram with book in hand, reading scroll (Magella) with phylacteries on forehead Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f78d5929-faba-4814-a43b-5facd0b36c54) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abram_with_book_in_hand,_reading_scroll_(Magella)_with_phylacteries_on_forehead_LOC_matpc.19299.jpg
- **1934-06-15**, Abram (Yemenite Jew) with book in hand, reading scroll (Magella) with phylacteries on forehead LOC matpc.19300. Title: Abram \[Yemenite Jew\] with book in hand, reading scroll (Magella) with phylacteries on forehead Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative: [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ddbbeb6-9108-4781-8081-297756b71a78) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abram_(Yemenite_Jew)_with_book_in_hand,_reading_scroll_(Magella)_with_phylacteries_on_forehead_LOC_matpc.19300.jpg
### 1935
- **1935-06-15**, Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935. 1103/Vol. 3/Boxes 1-3 [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f993aa16-3c42-4e66-a574-cf6a1b720890) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_machines,_Anthony_Hordern_and_Sons_department_store,_c._1935.jpg
### 1937
- **1937**, Feeding one of the presses LCCN2016872427. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f70f651a-6f9b-47fb-b1fe-05ecb513d8ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feeding_one_of_the_presses_LCCN2016872427.jpg
### 1940
- **1940**, Paper, 1940s. Archive film of British paper manufacture in the 1940s, from raw fibre through the machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/00b80182-74be-49e6-8db1-3262227b12d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzDc83RrWs
- **1940**, How paper is made, 1940s. A period industrial film documenting the papermaking process as it stood in the 1940s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0570ad13-2cba-40a2-81d0-9ee1c285febf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6l36oq18Hs
- **1940**, Newsprint (1940). British Instructional Films documentary on the manufacture of newsprint and its journey to the press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/64c62532-7656-4327-b97a-1c51289776a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2q1g5ZHoc
### 1941
- **1941**, Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f1208c28-e3ce-4c54-8cb6-356e970cee73) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_operators_of_the_Chicago_Defender.png
- **1941**, Russell Lee, Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender, 1941. Linotype operators of the Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper. Chicago, Illinois. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c7959d14-d0f0-4a2b-b6ae-8ab02078a1de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russell_Lee,_Linotype_operators_of_the_Chicago_Defender,_1941.jpg
### 1942
- **1942**, Books are weapons in the war of ideas. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942--O-487131; OWI poster no. 7; For additional copies write Division of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. Specify O.W.I. No. 7; Poster of Nazis burning books, with quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt on a large book in the background: "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought i [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6214801b-066b-4088-a62f-db35b24ec34d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Books_are_weapons_in_the_war_of_ideas_-_DPLA_-_b565821c6479f0cc6505109e747a835f.jpg
### 1945
- **1945**, Monotype, Linotype and remelting the metal. Huntley Film Archives footage of 1940s typesetting and type being melted back down. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b44a6fb0-1b1c-4fdb-a703-6fea53b9981a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXWcc_K2y38
- **1945-06-15**, Girl Reading(GN08755) - State Government Photographer. Girl reading a book featuring the title 'The Children's Hour' and a photograph of a Hippopotamus. Taken at Thebarton Primary School, 1945. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c19f2ed7-738b-413f-98be-b796bff03ce2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girl_Reading(GN08755).jpg
### 1947
- **1947**, Veiling van de Gutenbergbijbel van Charles William Dyson Perrins bij Sotheby's te Londen. Identificatie Titel(s): Veiling van de Gutenbergbijbel van Charles William Dyson Perrins bij Sotheby's te Londen Objecttype: prent foto Objectnummer: RP-P-2015-26-1772 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228; stempel, verso, gestempeld: ‘ Copyright: Publiek domein [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/326645af-597b-49e2-8999-34af7fc40509) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veiling_van_de_Gutenbergbijbel_van_Charles_William_Dyson_Perrins_bij_Sotheby%27s_te_Londen,_RP-P-2015-26-1772.jpg
### 1950
- **1950**, Kinderen krijgen onderwijs in de school van het koninklijk Deens ballet, Bestanddeelnr 252-9221. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/30d12b9b-aa7e-4e04-8a7b-d22c3cea2c40) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinderen_krijgen_onderwijs_in_de_school_van_het_koninklijk_Deens_ballet,_Bestanddeelnr_252-9221.jpg
- **1950**, Small Children in Library Sitting at Tables(GN08843). Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/85078ced-eac7-4ada-994b-5e452b009cde) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Small_Children_in_Library_Sitting_at_Tables(GN08843).jpg
- **1950**, BaSesotho Final Workshop 01. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a639d0a5-ba8e-446c-9c6b-f2cef25f3365) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BaSesotho_Final_Workshop_01.jpg
- **1950**, Children's reading in Public Library 02. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fb4a9f86-7b3e-4b83-8c72-53385323e742) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children%27s_reading_in_Public_Library_02.jpg
### 1951
- **1951**, A history of the printed word and papermaking, 1951. A 1951 documentary linking the history of writing and printing to the manufacture of paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/52669698-613c-4315-ab9e-a596dd0ff51f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOf1oFu9pw
### 1953
- **1953**, Anti-illiteracy certificate, Soemaijah (1953-10-25). Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/698a9f1f-6ed1-4265-bb6f-454948e0f9bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anti-illiteracy_certificate,_Soemaijah_(1953-10-25).jpg
### 1955
- **1955**, Keys to the library (1950s). An educational film teaching students to use card catalogs, encyclopedias and the Dewey system. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66743750-7e5b-4200-9bc6-3be86fdc1b7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7AwKVFd3o
### 1956
- **1956**, Modern magazine magic (1956). An industrial film following a magazine from editorial through platemaking to the finished copy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/75427070-65dd-4dc7-b7b0-ffc884ba2c80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKy-oajr3Do
### 1962
- **1962**, Sylvia Beach on meeting James Joyce. Archival footage of Beach describing her first encounter with Joyce in Paris. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/97e972f0-5315-4a5c-96a6-d764eaba10a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-vbMMFVeQo
- **1962**, Sylvia Beach on James Joyce and Shakespeare and Company. The bookseller who published Ulysses in 1922 recalls Joyce and her Paris shop in a 1962 interview. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bc5ab321-503c-4f97-aca0-5838432ac12d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zbw39MCm4
- **1962**, Sylvia Beach on publishing Ulysses. A short archival clip in which Beach describes taking on publication of Joyce's novel when others would not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/759a58f0-7d47-42d4-9312-e4742662f300) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJna_AcqSE
### 1964
- **1964**, Using the library card catalog, second instructional still. Learning to use the card catalog is a skill taught early in elementary school. Libraries were maintained in each of the 100 Minneapolis Public Schools. Photo is stamped February, 1964, but series appeared in the 1963 Annual Report. Portrait Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f9ac74ce-0b8d-4af2-9e1a-e4431b24411e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_the_Library_Card_Catalog_-_DPLA_-_40e9f04311df283c1c9bb78f5115f051.jpg
- **1964**, Using the library card catalog, instructional still. Learning to use the card catalog is a skill taught early in elementary school. Libraries were maintained in each of the 100 Minneapolis Public Schools. Photo is stamped February, 1964, but series appeared in the 1963 Annual Report. Portrait Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/215caa34-7daa-431a-843c-8a6117628bcb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_the_Library_Card_Catalog_-_DPLA_-_b297ea73a6239bf172db43c523fc2180.jpg
- **1964**, Tel Aviv. Typograaf aan het werk achter een linotype zetmachine in de drukkerij. Collectie / Archief: Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie: Israël 1964-1965: Tel Aviv, drukkerij Dawar Beschrijving: Tel Aviv. Typograaf aan het werk achter een linotype zetmachine in de drukkerij waar het dagblad Dawar (Davar) wordt gedrukt Annotatie: De Linotype is een regelzet machine waarin de functies van zetten en gieten verenigd zijn. De machine werd door een Duitse immigrant ont [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ce59fc89-a89f-42f1-9e83-c20d4a7e08b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tel_Aviv._Typograaf_aan_het_werk_achter_een_linotype_zetmachine_in_de_drukkerij_,_Bestanddeelnr_255-1879.jpg
### 1974
- **1974**, Librarian at the card files at a senior high school in New Ulm, Minnesota [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/046f0eae-f21e-435d-a60f-4e9e4718e39f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Librarian_at_the_card_files_at_a_senior_high_school_in_New_Ulm,_Minnesota.jpg
### 1975
- **1975**, Apprentice linotype operator at Queensland Times, Ipswich, 1975. Linotype, typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a compete line rather than as individual characters as on the Monotype typesetting machine. It was patented in the United States in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler. Linotype, which has now largely been supplanted by photocomposition, was most often used when large amounts of straight text matter were to be set. In the Linotyp [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d3809952-6b9e-4b14-9003-1f9788047bbd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apprentice_linotype_operator_at_Queensland_Times,_Ipswich,_1975_(34583024235).jpg
### 1976
- **1976**, Otto Frank on the diary of Anne Frank. A 1976 BBC children's television interview with Anne Frank's father about editing and publishing the diary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f24c909f-ef03-45da-aabb-2ae695e63a33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWUlZqsh2gQ
### 1978
- **1978**, Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu. The New York Times's last day of hot-metal typesetting in 1978, filmed as the Linotypes were shut down. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7e7a99ca-e524-4e98-829e-133ab7a71e38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU
### 1983
- **1983**, Using the card catalog (1983). A public library instructional film made when the card catalog was still the only way in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be30bb0f-865d-4651-b4c9-6da38a2d28d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHtzye3F7g
### 1986
- **1986**, Computer Chronicles on desktop publishing, 1986. The 1986 episode of Computer Chronicles on the arrival of desktop publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d79feb61-f116-46d5-ab2b-3fdc0f06070d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDxy_ay-0I
### 1987
- **1987**, Computer Chronicles on desktop publishing, 1987. The 1987 episode of Computer Chronicles surveying the new desktop publishing tools. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9a367230-0927-41fc-997a-c52146995fb0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkqcOG4VLYg
### 1989
- **1989**, Salman Rushdie interviewed about The Satanic Verses. A 1989 Dutch television interview with Rushdie about the novel and the reaction to it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/81cc0fbf-d8ee-4748-ae63-f51975e7b84d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ricVrxJaDw
- **1989**, Christopher Hitchens on Rushdie and The Satanic Verses. A C-SPAN discussion recorded days after the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie over his novel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c359981f-912c-4824-b5a1-27152ccc897c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUduMZbjUtY
### 1993
- **1993**, Bibliobus - Rosheim en Mai 1993. A mobile library. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/351d9523-4473-4bd2-a8c1-f2aed3592c11) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliobus_-_Rosheim_en_Mai_1993.jpg
### 2000
- **2000-03-10**, Audubon expected to fetch four million dollars. Archive news from March 2000 on an Audubon set coming to auction and the record it was expected to set for an illustrated book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8918878f-4c71-4860-a2e8-b058e76b6a16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOTXKZNliis
### 2001
- **2001-12-13**, Owen Gingerich on hunting every copy of Copernicus. Lecture by the historian who examined some 600 surviving copies of De revolutionibus, using their marginalia to work out who actually read it, famously disproving that it was 'the book nobody read'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f9fdea1c-7907-498d-9f75-a49651dbd9d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72CVJwQu2bE
### 2003
- **2003-05-23**, Manuscripts saved from the looted National Library. Archive footage from May 2003 of the burnt Baghdad library and the people who carried material out to safety. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/452943f5-e98a-4299-bc83-7396a3808d3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hxheqrJjCA
- **2003**, Cattail-handmade-paper-3d-1280. Handmade paper, a sheet formed on a wire mould, showing chain lines or a watermark. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/243b4d28-26ed-4961-82a8-040d205f7e80) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cattail-handmade-paper-3d-1280.jpg
- **2003**, Cattail-handmade-paper-1280. Handmade paper, a sheet formed on a wire mould, showing chain lines or a watermark. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b02f9f8e-df43-4150-930f-409b086951e0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cattail-handmade-paper-1280.jpg
### 2005
- **2005**, Movable type - Flickr - adactio. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f981549a-7e2d-4577-a82e-5998c3e3d3f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Movable_type_-_Flickr_-_adactio.jpg
### 2006
- **2006**, Numeral types - Flickr - reingestalter. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48af7f94-7690-4606-90d0-8f398b11f103) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Numeral_types_-_Flickr_-_reingestalter.jpg
- **2006**, Oak galls and iron(II) sulfate - California State Archives. Iron gall ink, made from oak galls and iron sulphate, the standard European writing ink for over a thousand years; it eventually eats through the page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/610bb1a8-c940-424b-bc39-8dc4d1d52b72) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_galls_and_iron(II)_sulfate_-_California_State_Archives.jpg
- **2006**, Eisengallustinte selbstgemacht schriftbild. Iron gall ink, made from oak galls and iron sulphate, the standard European writing ink for over a thousand years; it eventually eats through the page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/732bfbce-9351-4597-81e7-b0fe8020c6d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisengallustinte_selbstgemacht_schriftbild.jpg
- **2006**, Eisengallustinte Essenzen I und II und Tinte. Iron gall ink, made from oak galls and iron sulphate, the standard European writing ink for over a thousand years; it eventually eats through the page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/73cd0d9a-020d-4349-b6ec-4fb7f5188090) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisengallustinte_Essenzen_I_und_II_und_Tinte.jpg
- **2006**, Bibliobus KGZ. A mobile library. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a027f7d5-3660-49d8-8bbe-8110681e8a0d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliobus_KGZ.jpg
- **2006**, Tipos-de-letra. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b1bc73d8-536d-43eb-a4dc-27b101ad19ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tipos-de-letra.jpg
### 2007
- **2007**, Scanning electron image of handmade paper from barrel cactus fibers - 100x. Handmade paper, a sheet formed on a wire mould, showing chain lines or a watermark. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/79652be6-531e-49f5-9d86-995ea120cef2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scanning_electron_image_of_handmade_paper_from_barrel_cactus_fibers_-_100x.jpg
- **2007-10-08**, The Archimedes Palimpsest. Will Noel, Roger Easton and Michael Toth on recovering erased Archimedes text from beneath a medieval prayer book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/50caf343-7d57-45f4-8ab4-adb3f83921b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gME6fsCvonU
### 2008
- **2008-03-07**, A Domesday commissioner explains the survey. Costumed reconstruction of the 1086 commissioners' brief: no pig, plough or villager to go uncounted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90027159-0861-4de4-969d-7eacc184000f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybSii9IG7o
- **2008-03-27**, The Bibliotheca Alexandrina at five. American Libraries visits the library opened in Alexandria in 2002 as a modern successor to the ancient one, and the Serapeum site nearby. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7293d4b1-a97d-49d2-ac58-0fae505bab71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrrveFWRRQ
- **2008-05-15**, St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Bucheinband-Schliessen-Handarbeit. A glimpse into traditional bookbinding during the production of a facsimile: The photo shows the hand-fastening of metal clasps to the book cover. This is the final stage of the bookbinding process for the edition of the St. Albans Psalter by Müller & Schindler (Universal Art Group). The faithful reconstruction of the functional decorative elements serves to ensure tactile authenticity and to prot [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/385d34b9-0221-4668-b376-afed5dae67c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Bucheinband-Schliessen-Handarbeit.jpg
- **2008**, Biblioteca Nacional, Praia, Cape Verde. A national library building. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/18718a03-904b-4309-a58c-2ee439f5239e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Nacional,_Praia,_Cape_Verde.jpg
- **2008**, What are we hiding in the USF library banned books display. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/223f6eba-b6fa-4556-a05a-460c09c0cf27) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What_are_we_hiding_in_the_USF_library_banned_books_display.jpg
- **2008**, Heften-Buchblock-Handarbeit-St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Buchbinderei. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4b30fb04-6a04-46a3-8438-5fa8dbdb9dcb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heften-Buchblock-Handarbeit-St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Buchbinderei.jpg
- **2008**, Nachfülleisengallustinte Pelikan 0.5 Liter (Günther Wagner). Iron gall ink, made from oak galls and iron sulphate, the standard European writing ink for over a thousand years; it eventually eats through the page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/71602997-deec-4426-9136-4ca3e0151929) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nachf%C3%BClleisengallustinte_Pelikan_0.5_Liter_(G%C3%BCnther_Wagner).JPG
- **2008**, Banned Books Week list of challenged books University of St. Francis Library. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a2fffb98-0595-4ace-ba00-b87796e5b434) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banned_Books_Week_list_of_challenged_books_University_of_St._Francis_Library.jpg
- **2008**, Trinity college library. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c643c115-9229-437a-a741-858cf6dea20b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_college_library.jpg
- **2008-09-09**, Archimedes on the web. Follow-up talk on publishing the recovered palimpsest data openly online. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e8915ad9-d249-4ef1-88a6-a25a83cad5c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3fZdIw-s-E
### 2009
- **2009-01-12**, Book history at the Folger. The Folger Shakespeare Library introduces its work on early printed books as physical objects. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2dfa50aa-601a-4ed0-887e-df45fe46e8a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwTqCAwsz6s
- **2009-01-27**, The structure of a medieval manuscript. Getty Museum explains quires, bifolia and how a codex is physically assembled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b561f60a-1bbb-434c-bfba-e79cd9959ed1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBJkf2xbqI
- **2009-05-27**, Conserving the Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book. The International Dunhuang Programme films conservation work on the Diamond Sutra (British Library Or.8210/P.2), printed in China in 868 CE and recovered from the sealed cave library at Dunhuang. It is the earliest complete printed book with a date on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1eac4057-1bb5-447a-b78a-fd70e4f5d575) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVp7BUpUGUQ
- **2009**, Bleisatz im Winkelhaken. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0a111416-9f11-43bb-818b-7a08ffe11e0b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bleisatz_im_Winkelhaken.jpg
- **2009**, Bookmobile Bungkul Park Surabaya. A mobile library. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1c3298ba-e2b9-4da4-9983-04040fa5a34a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bookmobile_Bungkul_Park_Surabaya.JPG
- **2009**, Bookmobile Surabaya Indonesia. A mobile library. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/40682850-6ba4-44ce-8814-75da77b1db88) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bookmobile_Surabaya_Indonesia.JPG
- **2009**, Austria - Melk Abbey Library - 1865. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a1692e3-18ac-4441-9713-a9399234de0e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_-_Melk_Abbey_Library_-_1865.jpg
- **2009**, Winkelhaken mit Quadraten. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b132d5b-26b4-425b-9548-41b0e9afaed4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winkelhaken_mit_Quadraten.jpg
- **2009**, Austria - Melk Abbey Library - 1884. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9676d61e-3481-4e52-8ee8-43c821801dd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_-_Melk_Abbey_Library_-_1884.jpg
- **2009**, Wooden composing stick. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a803949e-b84f-4561-89de-396e16c194f1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wooden_composing_stick.jpg
- **2009**, Austria - Melk Abbey Library - 1896. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b8bbf9b2-940d-4a2d-a1bf-84979bb97e9f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_-_Melk_Abbey_Library_-_1896.jpg
- **2009**, Winkelhaken. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/caaec95e-8086-476f-aa72-dccd1a087db8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winkelhaken.jpg
- **2009-08-18**, Inside the Derge scripture printing lamasery. A visit to the Bakong printing house in Kham, where Tibetan texts are still printed from wooden blocks by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a62c0c3-ab30-41da-a18e-e0ba6472f121) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSUBP4kL38g
- **2009-09-09**, Gibraltar Bookshop, Main Street, Gibraltar [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/00a90061-5004-45d2-8f4d-a2e40f197fd2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gibraltar_Bookshop,_Main_Street,_Gibraltar.jpg
- **2009-09-11**, Old Library, History Reading Room, 1964. Fry Library. Photograph taken during the making of a BBC documentary. IMAGELIBRARY/138 Persistent URL: http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='IMAGELIBRARY/138') Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a26447bf-1814-4cf0-aee1-ffcd64036f62) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Library,_History_Reading_Room,_1964_(3926511550).jpg
- **2009-09-13**, Tempering punches and striking matrices. Second part of the type-founding series: hardening the punch and striking it into copper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05ab2ab2-8659-4eb1-91cc-9d089b0dc1e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyiCPzERIGA
- **2009-09-13**, Punchcutting at the Atelier Press. Historian and craftsman Stan Nelson cuts a steel punch by hand, the first step in making type. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d371df2-2157-4852-aab3-69e7445f4c15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExllUeGtvc
- **2009-09-26**, Chinese woodblock printing as living heritage. UNESCO documentation of engraved block printing technique in China, inscribed on the intangible heritage list in 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/75d73f17-db79-402e-842d-dc10fe6fa984) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57rUeCHoXg
- **2009-10-06**, Behind the scenes at the New York Public Library conservation lab. NYPL conservators show how damaged books and paper are stabilised and repaired. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4aa77aa-d4ef-4795-a24d-91e4a99eba69) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yi7PbN7AmQ
### 2010
- **2010-06-03**, The Abbey of St Gall. UNESCO and NHK on the Carolingian monastery whose library, founded in the 8th century, holds one of the oldest and richest collections of early medieval manuscripts in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f23bc71a-282d-4d6b-8e3f-4a3af0ffd415) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnYMEB_XCM
- **2010**, Blattgold, 2010 (01). Gold leaf and gilding, the beaten gold applied to illuminated manuscript pages and bindings. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0143ada5-5394-4614-8850-e254fecd9683) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blattgold,_2010_(01).jpg
- **2010**, Song Printing Block 2. A Chinese printing woodblock, the carved block itself, from which pages were printed. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0411c934-4083-4cb2-b1aa-ad0e05f3413c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Song_Printing_Block_2.jpg
- **2010**, Song Printing Block 1. A Chinese printing woodblock, the carved block itself, from which pages were printed. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/834ba1a3-0169-40ff-8045-a4eef93a6f24) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Song_Printing_Block_1.jpg
- **2010-08-02**, How parchment is made. BBC film for the Domesday programme following a skin through liming, scraping over the frame and drying into parchment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5c86adb2-aab4-4d4d-ab06-c19d1092fde1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SpLPFaRd0
- **2010-08-03**, Hebrew manuscripts after Gutenberg. A Met lecture on how Hebrew illuminated manuscripts and decorated printed books coexisted after printing arrived. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0574bbc9-acab-4718-9586-61270e0b0f78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnF_R50xnTA
- **2010-08-04**, An Egyptian Book of the Dead unrolled at the British Museum. Curators show a papyrus from the British Museum's Book of the Dead exhibition. These funerary rolls were made to order for individual owners from roughly 1550 BCE, with spells copied by scribes and blanks left for the buyer's name. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2cec897d-0b38-423c-b8fe-b1688be3a8af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zlBUbcWWQ
- **2010-08-26**, The book that changed the world. Library of Congress on its Gutenberg Bible and what movable type did to Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ff620592-e02c-4fff-8538-12a4086dee20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUEEmYo8DU
- **2010-10-01**, Saad Eskander on running a library in a war. American Libraries interview with the director of the Iraq National Library and Archives on operating through bombings, staff killings and reconstruction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/41097108-5649-45d7-abe1-e856e3bac799) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_u94PSq1zE
- **2010-10-19**, Pens, paint-making and illumination. New York Public Library scriptorium demonstration: carving quills, grinding paint and laying gold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e96ededa-2e36-4a4a-9613-4bcee9a738a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUQznSEPl0
- **2010-11-08**, Wooden movable-type printing in China. UNESCO records the surviving Chinese wooden movable-type practice, where characters are hand-carved, stored in rotating trays and composed for genealogies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8513a809-1ba1-482d-b2f9-22a4ecca9b65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzHXXF0YLS8
- **2010-12-14**, Building an independent Nigerian publisher. Muhtar Bakare on leaving banking to found Kachifo and get African literature into Nigerian readers' hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/55ea5be0-600c-455e-aa94-55927507dbf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCKzrN6B-9E
### 2011
- **2011-01-18**, Michelle Brown on the Lindisfarne Gospels. British Library talk placing the manuscript among its related Insular treasures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b8e04659-852b-4e06-8ada-6ad793131a5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdhLuW70wPs
- **2011-01-20**, The longest Book of the Dead in the world. The British Museum on the Greenfield Papyrus, at some 37 metres the longest known Book of the Dead, made for the daughter of a high priest of Amun around 950 BCE. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/01252d9e-1a91-46aa-9ed9-9bc5b08d2380) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZo13B4w7W8
- **2011-02-03**, Inside the National Archives conservation lab. A paper conservator repairs an 18th-century illustrated document at the US National Archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/95b14878-7d96-497d-9cae-c8929d44d00b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC10gCi-g0
- **2011-02-07**, The Codex Sinaiticus. A BBC segment on the fourth-century manuscript that is the oldest surviving complete Christian New Testament. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aec99336-c7a3-4d18-be1d-fe20ee4e0bc6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Xkv2gjzZw
- **2011-03-08**, Ukiyo-e woodblock printing with a master printer. Printer Keizaburo Matsuzaki demonstrates registration, inking with a brush and pulling impressions with a baren. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/44f50fc3-a381-45f1-9556-e2990c16796a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uF3PZ3KGQ
- **2011-03-09**, Scanning the brain to predict reading difficulty. Associated Press report on imaging research predicting which dyslexic children go on to compensate. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a1c590c-582a-4c73-aa82-e353174c9f7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmD3IX5YTw
- **2011-05-11**, The German National Library in Leipzig. DW Euromaxx tours the new wing of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, a 60-million-euro extension the size of two football pitches. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f2d9292-fed3-4876-bb56-f018f45260ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKTZVarx_HM
- **2011-05-13**, Joel ben Simeon, a named medieval Jewish illuminator. A Met lecture on one of the few medieval Hebrew scribe-illuminators whose career can be traced across surviving books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/24631dd8-0e87-4f89-982a-6b8446ebe116) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOVilqbEVw
- **2011-05-13**, The Washington Haggadah: the life of a Jewish book. A Met lecture following a single 15th-century Hebrew manuscript through its owners, uses and survival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd6936e5-a7c5-40c9-9c6d-59d746231deb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiffdGBnZ0c
- **2011-05-20**, A 1493 book walks in off the street. Archive news item: a man carries an original Nuremberg Chronicle into a Utah museum in a plastic bag to have it appraised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4153bb4e-7b28-40f3-981d-8b889e1abe6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlVX9efuHjY
- **2011-05-29**, Translating Mahfouz. Translator Denys Johnson-Davies on bringing Arabic literature, including Mahfouz, to English readers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6f15a93e-cef8-466a-9610-263159b32d92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0eyQd31aQ
- **2011-06-02**, Divine art, infernal machine: how printing was received. A Library of Congress lecture on the mixed reactions to the printing press in Europe over its first centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8abe1169-df57-4931-be02-e763c6753465) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjCtnM050dQ
- **2011**, MP2 LC Paper. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/01ec3350-3bde-474f-a734-2358cba4d60e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MP2_LC_Paper.jpg
- **2011**, Monotype machine keyboard. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/02cbe754-d9a8-4bb9-8f34-5517f4748810) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monotype_machine_keyboard_(5944029870).jpg
- **2011**, Atelier de reliure Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve n4. Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/034ed228-1f49-4866-b982-560061d894f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atelier_de_reliure_Bibliotheque_Sainte-Genevieve_n4.jpg
- **2011**, Iran University of Science and Technolgy Central Library 01. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1be20e07-2eb6-4998-9262-e3b83421d46d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_University_of_Science_and_Technolgy_Central_Library_01.JPG
- **2011**, Bibliothèque de Trinity College. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6420d93d-5cd7-4a21-ba95-2bf1b6e09359) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_Trinity_College.jpg
- **2011**, Print works typesetting, Beamish Museum, 4 June 2011. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7ce21fa7-8201-4bdb-bf7b-3edae59abbf0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print_works_typesetting,_Beamish_Museum,_4_June_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Marteaux reliure Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/91d6d899-7d36-4b1f-a588-d9e1d09dbf6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marteaux_reliure_Bibliotheque_Sainte-Genevieve.jpg
- **2011**, KunstpalastDSCF6454. A girdle book, a late-medieval binding with a long leather tail, knotted so the book could hang from a belt. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b52634a5-4f54-4e94-90dd-b3f190d22bda) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KunstpalastDSCF6454.jpg
- **2011**, KunstpalastDSCF6453. A girdle book, a late-medieval binding with a long leather tail, knotted so the book could hang from a belt. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cf315add-cee8-4791-9572-961deba49a5c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KunstpalastDSCF6453.jpg
- **2011**, Atelier de reliure Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve n6. Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d70e28e1-9017-4610-ba63-6126944377c4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atelier_de_reliure_Bibliotheque_Sainte-Genevieve_n6.jpg
- **2011**, How mechanical typesetting works. A Prelinger Archives training film explaining the Linotype and Intertype hot-metal line-casting machines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bf6dc58d-fb79-4d42-b08a-03ce584a5587) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzilaRwoMus
- **2011-06-24**, Why the First Folio is important. A Folger Shakespeare Library curator explains that eighteen of Shakespeare's plays survive only because of the 1623 collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a10755a4-27a4-4d43-8f91-c0cc52cf6c6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3WqPVIcYA
- **2011-07-24**, The Great Isaiah Scroll. The Israel Museum on 1QIsaa, the largest and best-preserved of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran in 1947, a complete book of Isaiah roughly a thousand years older than any previously known Hebrew copy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/75c275e0-9345-4b1d-b68a-92d32deb0fd4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQNcbiM0oM
- **2011-08-05**, The First Folio: a four-hundred-year obsession. The Folger Shakespeare Library, which holds the largest collection of First Folios, explains why the 1623 volume matters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1968a0d0-60d6-4134-a94b-d6379de6503e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WicxFbaSxgE
- **2011-08-19**, The missing history of metal-type books. On Korean metal movable type before Gutenberg and why the tradition is so little known outside East Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b639a27-0de4-47b2-8679-8c50145cdd38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=069LwA9xdK0
- **2011-09-23**, The Bodleian's Shakespeare First Folio. Dr Emma Smith introduces Oxford's copy of the 1623 First Folio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d71865fb-7781-47cd-b732-1c132c201391) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCl7ZMmbPA0
- **2011-09-23**, Writing a Torah scroll by hand. Scribe Julie Seltzer on the sofer's craft: parchment, quill, iron-gall ink, and a text that must be copied letter-perfect by hand, one of the few book technologies unchanged for two millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6084b5a2-5460-46ef-aeee-38a4ce90eec9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Brbqgngrc
- **2011-09-23**, The Book of Curiosities. An Oxford historian of Islamic science presents an early Arabic world map from the Book of Curiosities at the Bodleian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e5113546-65c0-4393-8cd9-8c84d76c697b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgUe5gUIeF4
- **2011-10-17**, Writers, publishers and censorship. A DW arts programme on banned books and the pressures placed on writers and publishers internationally. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bdac7c57-ea34-4cd0-a5c3-0ff412959638) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKTRcD2zk_I
- **2011-10-24**, Naguib Mahfouz. A documentary on the Egyptian Nobel laureate, whose Children of Gebelawi was banned in Egypt for decades and who was stabbed in 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/39d15e91-6f81-41a5-b6d4-d448c1b64827) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpFIk2KN3I
- **2011-11-23**, Papermaking and the history of paper. Papermaker Ray Tomasso lectures at CU Boulder Libraries on paper's history and manufacture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/774b1d2e-ac1e-4423-9d3a-ed6b4c03ad2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPqjLzAnSIM
- **2011-12-03**, Jikji movable type (replica), 1377 - Korean Culture Museum, Incheon Airport, Seoul, South Korea - DSC00787. Replica of historic item in the Korean Culture Museum in Incheon Airport, South Korea. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2dd9e755-5da1-4132-b704-cb111f82230d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jikji_movable_type_(replica),_1377_-_Korean_Culture_Museum,_Incheon_Airport,_Seoul,_South_Korea_-_DSC00787.JPG
- **2011-12-03**, Jikji (replica), 1377 - Korean Culture Museum, Incheon Airport, Seoul, South Korea - DSC00785. Replica of historic item in the Korean Culture Museum in Incheon Airport, South Korea. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/88c587fd-fd4b-4b40-afa8-fb484cefd953) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jikji_(replica),_1377_-_Korean_Culture_Museum,_Incheon_Airport,_Seoul,_South_Korea_-_DSC00785.JPG
- **2011-12-03**, Jikji movable type (replica impression), 1377 - Korean Culture Museum, Incheon Airport, Seoul, South Korea - D. Replica of historic item in the Korean Culture Museum in Incheon Airport, South Korea. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b785c35-b50e-4911-838d-a8f7f5141710) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jikji_movable_type_(replica_impression),_1377_-_Korean_Culture_Museum,_Incheon_Airport,_Seoul,_South_Korea_-_DSC00789.JPG
- **2011-12-20**, Desilking A Christmas Carol. Morgan Library conservators remove an old silk repair from Dickens's manuscript of A Christmas Carol. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0b3645f1-4728-4e92-aa2f-0d57b35b11ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeZoAImD26I
### 2012
- **2012-04-10**, Is censorship the mother of creativity in China?. Al Jazeera asks Chinese writers and artists how they work within, and around, official restrictions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0c6e9e38-0170-48f7-83fd-639c4745bb5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYDjOpSgrc
- **2012-05-09**, Illuminated Manuscript, Book of Hours in Dutch, Annunciation, Walters Manuscript W.918, fol. 13v. This Book of Hours was created in Zwolle, Netherlands, ca. 1470. It belongs to the group of “Sarijs manuscripts,” which was named after the erroneous citation in most works that identifies the manuscripts as belonging to the same group of “Sarijs” instead of “Marijs” on January 19 of their calendars (also found in W. 918). In a study of this group by Lydia Wierda, the author suggests that these ma [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/88cf6f36-8ee4-477e-b12c-35da057fe1ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illuminated_Manuscript,_Book_of_Hours_in_Dutch,_Annunciation,_Walters_Manuscript_W.918,_fol._13v.jpg
- **2012-05-09**, 2012-05-09 (16) Beginn des Diavortrages zur Bücherverbrennung 1933 in Hannover. Momentaufnahmen zu "Das war ein Vorspiel nur..." am Abend des 9. Mai 2012, Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe "Hannover im Wort. Zeichen zum Gedenken an die nationalsozialistische Bücherverbrennung." Am authentischen Ort informierten Mitarbeiter des Gemeinschaftsprojektes und andere an der Geibelbastion am Maschsee unter anderem über das Vorspiel 1933 an der Bismarcksäule in Hannover. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a5e0b6c0-071d-4ccb-9aa3-29c873855ff5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012-05-09_(16)_Beginn_des_Diavortrages_zur_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_1933_in_Hannover.jpg
- **2012-05-09**, 2012-05-09 (18) mangels Dokumenten Foto der Bücherverbrennung 1933 auf dem Opernplatz in Berlin mit Hitlergruß. Momentaufnahmen zu "Das war ein Vorspiel nur..." am Abend des 9. Mai 2012, Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe "Hannover im Wort. Zeichen zum Gedenken an die nationalsozialistische Bücherverbrennung." Am authentischen Ort informierten Mitarbeiter des Gemeinschaftsprojektes und andere an der Geibelbastion am Maschsee unter anderem über das Vorspiel 1933 an der Bismarcksäule in Hannover. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c1a5588d-b806-427e-b089-dd30d881e9cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012-05-09_(18)_mangels_Dokumenten_Foto_der_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_1933_auf_dem_Opernplatz_in_Berlin_mit_Hitlergru%C3%9F.jpg
- **2012-05-30**, The making of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Gresham College lecture by Dr Sally Dormer on materials, workshop practice and patronage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9dda91e5-ee6b-46ec-80a8-a99842da434a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBxo51GiGiU
- **2012-06-14**, The Maya creation story, told by the Smithsonian. Short museum film on the Popol Vuh narrative of the Hero Twins and the making of humankind from maize. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a3c75c45-324d-4f4b-ba9c-3fbac7c743b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb5GKmEcJcw
- **2012**, The future of the book in a digital age. Panel of publishers and academics on what happens to reading, editing and publishing as print loses its monopoly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2b1e36ff-208c-4733-9f41-4503007f54e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktHP4XT_TY
- **2012**, Trigge 02. The Francis Trigge Chained Library at Grantham, founded 1598 and reckoned the first public reference library in England. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3e7bc4dd-97bc-4e23-8c78-2c0057635fdc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trigge_02.jpg
- **2012**, Gibraltar Bookshop. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/833ddc62-2b3b-4d96-98d1-7ce2593f2beb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gibraltar_Bookshop.jpg
- **2012**, Trigge 03. The Francis Trigge Chained Library at Grantham, founded 1598 and reckoned the first public reference library in England. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8767f552-ba7f-4339-b96a-abe2ce4e6cbc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trigge_03.jpg
- **2012**, Abbaye Saint Robert de La Chaise Dieu-Scriptorium-201121007. A scriptorium, the monastic room where manuscripts were copied. Most surviving examples are photographed as rooms or reconstructions today. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eaf7613e-1cc5-4169-84d8-9db1207b3059) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Saint_Robert_de_La_Chaise_Dieu-Scriptorium-201121007.jpg
- **2012**, Trigge 01. The Francis Trigge Chained Library at Grantham, founded 1598 and reckoned the first public reference library in England. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fad14c1c-7665-4fa3-9eb9-6dc812aeb0d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trigge_01.jpg
- **2012-06-26**, Berlin, Bebelplatz, Mahnmal an die Bücherverbrennung von 1933. Im Mahnmal mit den durch durch Glasscheibe sichtbaren (leergeräumten) Bücherregalen spiegelt sich die Alte Bibliothek 1775 bis 1780 Kurz nach der „Machtergreifung“ der Nationalsozialisten 1933 kam es im März im Zuge einer „Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist“ zu einer organisierten und systematisch vorbereiteten Verfolgung jüdischer, marxistischer und pazifistischer Schriftsteller. Dabei handelte e [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/727b7572-a90b-47db-bd92-1074ba9704fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin,_Bebelplatz,_Mahnmal_an_die_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_von_1933.jpg
- **2012-10-09**, The Dead Sea Scrolls digital library. The Israel Antiquities Authority launches free online access to imaged scroll fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3e6775c2-fc0b-43d0-aaff-ae791def24f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6nLMPt-og
- **2012-10-30**, Reading off a prison sentence in Brazil. Report on the Brazilian programme cutting days from sentences for prisoners who read classic literature and write about it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3381b535-f605-44e1-b9be-92d5ae92a328) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLrqY-M3F3s
- **2012-12-21**, Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?. PBS American Experience introduces the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the best-selling American novel of the nineteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3a8392f7-2a95-40c8-bf15-da640a1bba03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFy4RjYGbQ
### 2013
- **2013-01-01**, Jikji, 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. An account of the Korean metal-type book of 1377 and its place in the chronology of printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/55222f30-27a3-441d-9a30-2c63ffcc4f5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAOUMTpI-8
- **2013-01-08**, Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Abolitionists. A PBS American Experience segment on Stowe's place in the abolition movement and the reach of her novel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/40cce397-8355-402a-adec-e6b481fcadc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFfMPCfKqGg
- **2013-01-15**, Reading to children, and why it matters. State Library of Queensland session on research linking early read-aloud to language, vocabulary and later literacy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3fdc3044-dea0-4956-912a-a04037ca1e91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TErTGQVr5U
- **2013-01-31**, Conserving the Diamond Sutra. British Library on the decade-long project to conserve the oldest dated printed book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eec20393-d93e-43bc-8a66-56a62f4d8fb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgN5HQXTlMc
- **2013-02-20**, GU Library Card catalog 4. Card catalog at the Gothenburg University Library (Central Library) in Sweden. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed0b6b10-894a-428e-a39f-85ba846ca3d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GU_Library_Card_catalog_4.jpg
- **2013-02-22**, The restoration of books after the Florence flood. A record of the international effort to save books damaged by the 1966 flood of the Arno in Florence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5e087af9-6585-45a9-95ad-d882dc14df89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6698z_QmY
- **2013-04-10**, Digital legal deposit begins. British Library on the 2013 regulations extending legal deposit to digital publications. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5fcc38c1-136a-405a-834b-bc30d0765777) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3dUsMrFwI
- **2013-04-15**, The Linotype demonstrated. Ireland's National Print Museum runs its Linotype and explains the keyboard, magazine and casting sequence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/092a379c-6719-43a7-be2d-4a8c69a141b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13trF0_XIMs
- **2013-04-15**, The Ludlow typecaster. A demonstration of the Ludlow, which cast display lines from hand-assembled matrices. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/502f13d0-4fd7-4a72-9245-cebb550faf1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noe8zBzNQnI
- **2013-04-15**, The Albion press. The National Print Museum demonstrates the Albion, the British iron hand press used for fine printing well into the 20th century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6007c2ed-e4ec-4e87-ac50-112305f5a56f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5VIMQ0fTg
- **2013-04-15**, The Monotype keyboard. The other half of the Monotype system: a keyboard that punches a paper ribbon rather than setting type directly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/71b98749-b416-4582-accb-b23dfc00126c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcphfMlOzk4
- **2013-04-15**, The Monotype caster demonstrated. The National Print Museum runs the Monotype caster, which casts individual sorts from a punched paper ribbon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9a5cbbf6-3da1-46bb-a088-3936610459f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9DV95IEKGU
- **2013-05-12**, Gedenktafel Bebelplatz (Mitte) Bücherverbrennung 1933 in Deutschland. Memorial plaque, Bücherverbrennung 1933, Bebelplatz, Berlin-Mitte, Germany Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/29457887-1559-4186-a5eb-549634a522b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenktafel_Bebelplatz_(Mitte)_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_1933_in_Deutschland.jpg
- **2013-05-13**, The Nazi book burnings. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum documents the May 1933 burnings in which students destroyed tens of thousands of books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bdc0c64b-a6f5-42d9-a6a0-5b47bd01c387) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHzM1gXaiVo
- **2013-05-13**, The Library of Congress book-collecting contest. A Library of Congress event in which young collectors present the personal libraries they have assembled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c54bf221-5d7c-4b71-97d9-db6e0e402164) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5YlJ4BO00
- **2013-05-27**, How a web offset press works. Sappi's technical film on continuous web offset printing, the process behind most books and magazines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/031c68d3-f473-4fb7-9bec-fc9c7ef6558a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avXkRLoSta8
- **2013**, Espace librairie du salon. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1d30cab2-7460-4a7e-96d9-a9132d60b7e8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Espace_librairie_du_salon.JPG
- **2013-06-25**, The history of reading and the literate life. Literary scholar Seth Lerer traces how reading practices have changed across centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d079c2b-743f-4398-8b8a-7a23b2380b59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Z5HNRC_Ic
- **2013-06-26**, A calligrapher on the shape of Arabic letters. Professional calligrapher Taha Al-Hiti demonstrates the pen and explains the proportional system behind the letterforms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e80b08b1-67f6-47b3-820d-1362d7a5e5f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7e4QBxtCl8
- **2013-07-15**, Inside The Times, 1980s. Archive footage of the newspaper's offices and production in the last years before computer typesetting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a024ef8-0d3c-4dc7-8736-873106d07017) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAznws4dP7Q
- **2013-07-15**, What dyslexia is. Short explainer on the phonological processing differences behind dyslexia, which affects up to one in five people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f086bc01-d106-488e-b972-d28657cabb14) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafiGBrFkRM
- **2013-08-01**, Treasures of the Library of Congress. A talk on notable holdings in the Library of Congress rare book collections and how they were acquired. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f389e661-ee13-435b-8636-fdd76eac8205) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZudtFDSO0y0
- **2013-09-20**, Building a twenty-first-century Bodleian. A behind-the-scenes look at how Oxford's main library moved and stored millions of volumes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a67b156-5be3-4782-b5f9-c7b26166353c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8r96cZC2lY
- **2013-09-20**, Haeinsa and the storage of 80,000 woodblocks. UNESCO and NHK on the Janggyeong Panjeon depositories at Haeinsa temple in Korea, purpose-built in the 15th century to hold the Tripitaka Koreana, 80,000 woodblocks carved 1237-48 and still intact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6680a517-a663-4f7f-8cae-95562f8b6218) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3cXFdaxdb4
- **2013-09-24**, Literacy for peace in South Sudan. UNESCO documentary on literacy programmes in South Sudan and their role in reconstruction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d63c0477-2fd6-4287-b248-ee7f4134833e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uoG8GXtX9o
- **2013-09-26**, Elin Solvang reading. Journalist og informasjonsrådgiver Elin Solvang, Grong, Nord-Trøndelag. Bildet er tatt i forbindelse med Nord-Trøndelag fylkesbiblioteks kampanje "Leseambassadører" [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/babfdbaa-b3e3-42d2-a926-644816a976a9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elin_Solvang_reading.jpg
- **2013-10-16**, Writing cuneiform. Getty Museum demonstration of a stylus being pressed into wet clay, filmed for the Cyrus Cylinder exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/329f5905-987f-4cbf-bd9a-c4fb6aa1da65) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZ2asfyHcA
- **2013-10-16**, Robert Darnton on digitising and democratising. The book historian and former Harvard librarian on mass digitisation, Google Books, and who ends up controlling access to the written record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3f46e04a-877e-46b8-9b14-c7e354ffcf46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck3W5-9EoJ8
- **2013-10-25**, The rescued books of Sarajevo. DW reports on the destruction of Bosnia's national library during the war and the effort to recover what survived. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/35613380-930d-40ae-84d5-f407caa104c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u084Arq8FmI
- **2013-10-25**, The rescued books of Sarajevo - DW Deutsch. German-language DW report on the rebuilt Sarajevo library building and the collections still stored in emergency accommodation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e48ec9a2-1f26-4fb7-b703-88a1e5fa7bfc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDuakKSswaw
- **2013-11-07**, The Iraqi Jewish Archive, recovered from a flooded basement. US National Archives conservators on the waterlogged Hebrew books and documents found in Baghdad in 2003 and the freeze-drying and treatment that followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/363380ce-4df2-4d9a-a652-1ae7d14b8744) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMyKuLJNUh8
- **2013-11-08**, Illustrated books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A Library of Congress talk on early printed illustrated books and how their images were made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e074ad04-2a1a-4a67-b96a-8134541bdd54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUPQuNVg8uo
- **2013-11-26**, America's oldest book goes to auction. Al Jazeera report ahead of the 2013 Bay Psalm Book sale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/035a8487-5f79-4d0a-a7f8-74c7097bd57c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQX8S1SP60U
- **2013-11-27**, A book of psalms sells for $14.2 million. News report on the 2013 sale of a Bay Psalm Book, then a record price for a printed book at auction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a0d8792-4fef-4be4-99fc-e2f221917062) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5wVfLVEHM
- **2013-12-03**, Learning to read Chinese by building blocks. ShaoLan Hsueh's method of teaching character recognition from a small set of pictographic components. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f602d264-7e9b-477b-b1a0-13c918662094) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR72RnEwl0M
- **2013-12-06**, The legacy of Joyce's Ulysses. A Library of Congress discussion of the novel, including its suppression and the trial that ended it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2e1f7b54-af1a-413e-a20e-2353ce97cc62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fGkGkbylM
- **2013-12-10**, Making the Florentine Codex. Getty lecture on how Bernardino de Sahagún and 22 Nahua artists produced the twelve-book encyclopedia of Mexica life and language in 1576, and on the pigments and materials they used. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b5013694-9bd3-42f5-a551-0785bf94a9b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_1e42oplY
- **2013-12-18**, The Bodleian and the Vatican digitise together. Kristian Jensen on the 2012 joint project between the two libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7e4c98d7-3701-41d8-aec1-831bd105a10f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJDXARfPcQs
- **2013-12-18**, Digitising the Vatican and Bodleian collections together. Interview on the 2012 joint project between the Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana to digitise Hebrew manuscripts, Greek manuscripts and incunabula from both collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0092f0ef-1754-4121-bf7a-1f13b1b6593d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDSz6ngv77w
- **2013-12-18**, Richard Ovenden on opening up the Vatican's texts. Bodleian's Librarian on what a mass digitisation partnership with the Vatican Library changes for scholarship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/54cc9f23-5284-4fe7-9747-c81ab7ee6aea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guOVI15XWdU
- **2013-12-18**, Christopher de Hamel on the Bodleian-Vatican project. The manuscript scholar on the significance of putting two of the great historic collections online side by side. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d96cb30e-1db8-4258-9205-66203912e5de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iahy0fx2B0g
### 2014
- **2014-01-20**, Scraps of treasure. Cambridge University Library on why fragmentary manuscripts matter as evidence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed8a08d3-b6ae-4a18-8fa6-48df72f05e86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj1tvl8YLss
- **2014-01-20**, Ola leaf manuscripts. A Sri Lankan cultural-fund film on ola (palm) leaf manuscripts and the surviving practitioners who make them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7d380dbe-15e9-4d3f-b24f-d210a6a6ccee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xkk_VR9UO8
- **2014-03-06**, Rebuilding the Bodleian's Weston Library. Timelapse of the renovation of the New Bodleian into the Weston Library, reopened in 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aaed5bcb-520c-4339-ae8b-1fc25df74d89) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2Nx7XtmqY
- **2014-03-12**, The dawn of desktop publishing. Computerphile on the Apple LaserWriter and the moment quality printing reached the desk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/30ee7b9a-ecf3-4a9e-94b5-fe01795387fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCNnMZrFUQ
- **2014-03-27**, Digitisation at the Bodleian. Why digitising old books is far more than photography, and what it opens up for research. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d6939331-7fff-43ad-8ebd-0634fa45b350) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJhyd9n6vE
- **2014-05-09**, Adult literacy among Malawi's smallholder farmers. Programme film on literacy classes run through a farmers' association, and what reading changes for members' work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/84570a70-b47a-42b9-bba4-1c058f517e2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TonXkppxspw
- **2014-05-10**, Sarajevo's National Library reopens - AFP News Agency. AFP on the 2014 reopening of the Vijećnica, 22 years after it was destroyed by shelling during the siege of Sarajevo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f36f2ead-6935-42a5-89c8-9b80f9732cd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8gdQ21OQ4
- **2014-05-21**, Universitätsplatz (Heidelberg), die Bücherverbrennung 1933 in Deutschland am 17. Mai 1933, eine Gedenktafel de. Universitätsplatz (Heidelberg), die Bücherverbrennung am 17. Mai 1933, eine Gedenktafel der Bürgerstiftung Heidelberg 2011 mit einem Zitat von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8ea57272-4aa0-4ee0-b40a-96a13fac8eaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universit%C3%A4tsplatz_(Heidelberg),_die_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_1933_in_Deutschland_am_17._Mai_1933,_eine_Gedenktafel_der_B%C3%BCrgerstiftung_Heidelberg_2011.JPG
- **2014**, Books-bookshop-magazines. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/04bf25ae-afa0-45d9-a519-63a8f8fb87d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Books-bookshop-magazines_(24031198330).jpg
- **2014**, Annex and Laboratory Buildings - Indian National Library - Belvedere Estate - Kolkata 2014-05-02 4738. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2728b457-1f49-4b7b-9b01-0112588bee5d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annex_and_Laboratory_Buildings_-_Indian_National_Library_-_Belvedere_Estate_-_Kolkata_2014-05-02_4738.JPG
- **2014**, Banned Books Display. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/32fdbb8b-7ae6-4b89-bcf3-f954e10a74de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banned_Books_Display.jpg
- **2014**, Wood Block for Printing. A Chinese printing woodblock, the carved block itself, from which pages were printed. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/692a5865-a81a-41fc-9d4a-a7bcb4972143) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_Block_for_Printing.jpg
- **2014**, Biblioteca Vasconcelos - Salas de lectura. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/69acb3cc-f62c-484f-a8ce-85fcecf8ae5b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Vasconcelos_-_Salas_de_lectura.jpg
- **2014**, Hammering Gold Leaf. Gold leaf and gilding, the beaten gold applied to illuminated manuscript pages and bindings. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6ca1901b-e4ad-484d-8ca3-84aac975a428) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hammering_Gold_Leaf.jpg
- **2014**, Annex Buildings - Indian National Library - Belvedere Estate - Kolkata 2014-05-02 4763. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a5dd6eaa-20bd-40bb-8ac1-f0513e1bb0bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annex_Buildings_-_Indian_National_Library_-_Belvedere_Estate_-_Kolkata_2014-05-02_4763.JPG
- **2014**, Annex Buildings - Indian National Library - Belvedere Estate - Kolkata 2014-05-02 4765. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a7cd1e10-63bb-4605-93b2-84764cb89dc5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annex_Buildings_-_Indian_National_Library_-_Belvedere_Estate_-_Kolkata_2014-05-02_4765.JPG
- **2014**, National Library - panoramio (1). A national library building. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ec9e1a8c-499d-4835-b134-625726d3bf61) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Library_-_panoramio_(1).jpg
- **2014**, Sao Tome National Library. A national library building. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f3d8a7bc-a8e9-4232-ad85-42ca1f788f4e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sao_Tome_National_Library_(16061571428).jpg
- **2014-06-16**, The Hengwrt Chaucer: the earliest Canterbury Tales. The National Library of Wales on its Hengwrt manuscript, the earliest surviving copy of the Canterbury Tales, probably written within a few years of Chaucer's death in 1400. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66fd6bfa-08e9-414a-8e6b-7b1aae6dc8a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PvAuPtB9jA
- **2014-06-17**, Making manuscripts. Getty Museum's overview of how an illuminated manuscript was made, from preparing skin to binding the finished book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/49df33b2-9c76-47dd-9c11-2170c49739c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o
- **2014-06-29**, The Most Dangerous Book: the battle for Ulysses. Kevin Birmingham discusses his history of the writing, publication, suppression and legal vindication of Joyce's novel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d1510e59-841e-4c70-94c2-45f70c4681e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Hg2u5aG7s
- **2014-07-02**, Kenya's new writers. CGTN Africa panel on the growth of the Kenyan literary scene beyond the generation of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/737c7570-10da-4824-a065-58765b635498) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOw4hZ5PDM
- **2014-07-03**, Rebuilding Jefferson's lost library. PBS NewsHour on the effort to reassemble Jefferson's original collection, book by book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1f73cba1-da69-4576-8614-b0d5805d6e49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOAf3WbOPrY
- **2014-07-25**, Kumar and the lost art of punchcutting. D&AD visits the Type Archive in Lambeth to film hand punchcutting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f0b9661-a4af-47f2-87ac-e0dff9155fca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KiTIX5h-X4
- **2014-09-11**, UNESCO's literacy programme in Afghanistan. On the Enhancement of Literacy in Afghanistan project, one of the largest adult literacy programmes attempted anywhere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cef24c5a-becf-4b93-a477-8473430db620) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Zl2FWi8HY
- **2014-09-18**, A fragment of a clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription, unearthed September 2014 at Bakr Awa, Sulaymaniyah,. A fragment of a clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription, unearthed in September 2014 at the ancient mound of Bakr Awa, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. The excavation was headed by Professor Peter Miglus of the Heidelberg University. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/459610b0-d9dd-4958-b477-2c0b9fb4a4cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_fragment_of_a_clay_tablet_with_a_cuneiform_inscription,_unearthed_September_2014_at_Bakr_Awa,_Sulaymaniyah,_Iraq.jpg
- **2014-09-24**, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres. A physicist explains what Copernicus argued in 1543 and how the printed book carried the heliocentric claim across Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/65614d26-e213-4bf1-9f15-ee6ec6635dce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nCgY4zWsOU
- **2014-09-30**, Inside the Schwarzman Building. The New York Public Library on the story behind its landmark Fifth Avenue building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/24f25f2a-6980-4cdc-a9fc-1e864bbb6847) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-dD2tx6bk
- **2014-09-30**, Reading the Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer. Lecture on the contents and ordering of the earliest Canterbury Tales manuscript and what it tells us about how Chaucer left the work unfinished. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3c44be9c-1243-4d7c-acad-ef37870c7cbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOgSWggtCKg
- **2014-10-04**, Reproducing an 18th-century Arabic manuscript binding. A Qatar Digital Library film following, step by step, the making of a copy of an 18th-century Islamic binding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cc8fdf51-4b56-4ee7-a7da-88ca21612db2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQFTbJCbnM
- **2014-10-06**, A library in exile. DW report filmed while the Timbuktu manuscripts were still hidden in Bamako, on the librarians who moved them out of the city in secret. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b67b779b-964e-4206-9165-6399b1f30697) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44d1OYXiZok
- **2014-10-18**, A signed first edition of Ulysses. An antiquarian bookseller examines one of the 100 signed copies of the 1922 Shakespeare and Company Ulysses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/025eacfa-9820-482a-b3a0-429bc79e3fd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3xidVwOgE
- **2014-10-22**, Incunable broadsides. Cambridge University Library's Ed Potten on early printed single sheets and their survival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/43fd53fc-94db-4a5c-84c0-d110143223f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTI73rhTlOA
- **2014-10-22**, Private lives of print. Cambridge University Library on the use and abuse of printed books by their readers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eed1855c-188a-45bd-84bd-a88587f43b35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tqesLV2AYY
- **2014-10-22**, The print workshop in the fifteenth century. Cambridge University Library reconstructs how an early printing workshop was organised and staffed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b5a299bc-d9cc-445f-a20f-09555565f71a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ARRcED3Ro
- **2014-10-31**, How Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein. A BBC segment from The Secret Life of Books on the origins of the 1818 novel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/39eada6b-5f14-4bd6-95c1-5e9d1a88d358) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM1D_xUjuOE
- **2014-11-01**, Conserving the Dead Sea Scrolls. A tour of the Lunder Center laboratory where the Dead Sea Scrolls are stabilised and stored. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/922d8031-5930-4081-83b1-f0db8d94e26f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Nir9Jz53A
- **2014-12-02**, Into the vault: the Encyclopédie. A university special-collections film examining an original set of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/67b60567-c395-4f11-ae69-2acbf4319d78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ttv0L1nHZU
- **2014-12-02**, Understanding the Reformation through the book. A Library of Congress programme on how printed books and pamphlets carried the Reformation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8d1f7ddf-ce52-468c-ba6d-2ae3c390c1d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCDEHRtM-BM
- **2014-12-02**, Iron gall ink: a quick method. A short, precise demonstration of an iron gall ink recipe with weights and timings, from the Letterlocking project. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d452bf53-ea08-434b-999a-cd01d3726c62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKyKfudiyc
- **2014-12-09**, Handling East Asian hanging scrolls. Harvard preservation staff demonstrate the correct handling of the layered paper-and-silk scroll format. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c516c54a-a775-4af0-a16c-aa0b6904091d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyLBZ58GbqM
### 2015
- **2015-01-15**, A new literature prize for African writers. PBS NewsHour on a fiction prize raising the profile and readership of African authors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0bd593f-2c68-4187-a45a-7dd1ea566844) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ZESkMHNNA
- **2015-01-20**, Tracking the roots of reading. MIT's Gabrieli Lab on brain imaging in pre-readers that identifies differences in children later found to be at risk of dyslexia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5668ad1c-7187-4cc2-ae30-9cc2804bf4d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqB4bbMju9A
- **2015-02-01**, Conserving a Byzantine manuscript. A restoration team documents their treatment of a Greek Byzantine manuscript from disbinding to resewing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3a64570c-f545-45e6-b4da-277bdb6b8ca5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQzrmkT3N4
- **2015-02-04**, The four surviving original Magna Carta manuscripts. The British Library brings together the four surviving 1215 exemplars for the first time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f5fb622c-8ecb-4a33-8001-0c057528975c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-oahdGERc
- **2015-02-05**, The British Library's support for Iraq. British Library chief executive on the partnership helping the Iraq National Library and Archive rebuild its collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a13d5d14-57d1-41b0-8d26-0e8b717596a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQP6mqw7U4
- **2015-03-04**, The Nuremberg Chronicle at York Minster Library. A special-collections librarian opens the 1493 Liber Chronicarum, printed by Anton Koberger with over 1,800 woodcut illustrations from around 645 blocks, one of the most heavily illustrated books of the incunable period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/695610be-6f84-4341-95a0-f55f2efd94ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr9A_65a824
- **2015-03-06**, The publishing formats of Dickens's first editions. A rare-book dealer explains how Dickens's novels appeared in monthly serial parts before being bound as books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fd4b55d4-b9ce-46c8-b9b2-b3fd3913daa3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I09TngftewI
- **2015-03-09**, King John and the making of Magna Carta. Professors David Carpenter and Nicholas Vincent on the baronial revolt and the 1215 negotiation that produced the charter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/417674cc-8df2-40c0-8692-dff42c8cfc80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfTHRar32i8
- **2015-03-10**, What Magna Carta actually is. British Library animation, narrated by Terry Jones, on the 1215 charter: what it said, how quickly it was annulled, and how four original sealed copies survived to become a founding document of constitutional law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/048c9f66-db54-4435-bde0-160814d83f15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xo4tUMdAMw
- **2015-03-12**, The Library of Congress is your library. An overview of the national library's history and its role as a public institution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3774fb58-dd11-4a33-95b6-8b1d4f7d210e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ze_bpATac
- **2015-04-22**, Learning Arabic calligraphy. A calligrapher on the training that produces the scripts used for Quranic manuscripts and Arabic books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ac1f570b-a93e-49f7-981b-afd54a85e76c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L7SIzr_XeU
- **2015-04-27**, The Fabrica and the Epitome, 1543. Sachiko Kusukawa on Vesalius's two 1543 books, the vast Fabrica and its cheap companion Epitome, and what publishing both at once tells us about intended readerships. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d663b1bd-6f92-46de-b0b6-8f73c20371a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2IA-eIxG4o
- **2015-04-29**, Cause and consequence in reading disability. Guinevere Eden on distinguishing the brain differences that cause dyslexia from those produced by years of reading less. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b22e4ef8-8543-4bef-ad7f-2a8108ef943d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aRfWcfCYKM
- **2015-05-20**, Digita Vaticana: putting the manuscripts online. Short film on the Vatican Library's programme to digitise its manuscript holdings and the technical work involved. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/07d0b8db-141d-442d-8540-91d7352044a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU6z1x13Tps
- **2015-06-10**, Two Bay Psalm Books on show at the Library of Congress. Lecture and exhibition on the 1640 psalter and its place in early American printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6f0ddcea-03ff-4389-991e-639d19fe40b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efk4Tpo2_U
- **2015**, Rights of man - Upper cover (c183aa12). Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/26edc374-0c00-4884-9386-3d577ad34497) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rights_of_man_-_Upper_cover_(c183aa12).jpg
- **2015**, Bibliotheque Ste Genevieve. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2b6f9cbf-c37c-4a9c-9064-ba64f8b2994c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheque_Ste_Genevieve_(25473004456).jpg
- **2015**, Textile Printing. Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2e061870-7e0a-4cc2-9328-5afbc219b99e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textile_Printing.JPG
- **2015**, BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) - Salon du Livre de Paris 2015. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2fb28bd8-b505-4121-ab7f-940f120ec737) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BnF_(Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France)_-_Salon_du_Livre_de_Paris_2015.jpg
- **2015**, Bibliotheque Ste Genevieve - Tom Hilton. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2fe51567-4085-4599-8ddb-44f6b7014ceb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheque_Ste_Genevieve_(23121982186).jpg
- **2015**, Wappen der Schriftgiesser. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/316cb499-08a1-4693-859a-33ad9b1ce5fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wappen_der_Schriftgiesser.jpg
- **2015**, Christbaumgold Blattgold. Gold leaf and gilding, the beaten gold applied to illuminated manuscript pages and bindings. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/42f15827-24bf-4b58-a5b3-451de337c86c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christbaumgold_Blattgold.jpg
- **2015**, Postcard of The Chained Library. Hereford Cathedral (undated). The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4925b234-0071-49e4-a9b3-bdb01864270f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postcard_of_The_Chained_Library._Hereford_Cathedral_(undated).jpg
- **2015**, Handsetzers Handwerkszeug. A composing stick holding hand-set metal type, the compositor’s basic tool. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/49bbbd6b-4e85-4d30-aebb-eac33a97a1c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handsetzers_Handwerkszeug.jpg
- **2015**, Machine à papier. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5262d304-f82c-4e76-80f8-b4ab82b7ca2c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Machine_%C3%A0_papier.JPG
- **2015**, La Filosofía, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5f63c36f-338f-45ec-ac81-499bdd6e01a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Filosof%C3%ADa,_Real_Biblioteca_del_Monasterio_de_San_Lorenzo_de_El_Escorial.jpg
- **2015**, Wood Block (France), 1800 (CH 18407531). Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f5df6ad-33f0-4cb9-afa4-b296cc4ad115) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_Block_(France),_1800_(CH_18407531).jpg
- **2015**, El Escorial 108. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/81f39eef-88ea-4474-aa3c-ebd46b553df2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Escorial_108.jpg
- **2015**, Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a253f58d-8c62-4536-a749-e6500f3b74c1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliotheque_Sainte_Genevieve_(18797050603).jpg
- **2015**, BnF Latin 11658 f.60r Life of St Samson of Dol. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af9e3128-a72c-4da6-8b33-2eadcdc93fc8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BnF_Latin_11658_f.60r_Life_of_St_Samson_of_Dol.jpg
- **2015**, Thimphu - Papierherstellung. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b24f56ba-f8ca-4ae6-8935-1d8373b189d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thimphu_-_Papierherstellung.JPG
- **2015**, Monotype Garamond italic. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b4258c9c-40e2-4634-90dd-46d5ea5646e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monotype_Garamond_italic.png
- **2015**, Atles Català BNF. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b693adf5-1d90-4638-922c-aa6bfff80522) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atles_Catal%C3%A0_BNF.jpg
- **2015**, Gezicht op de Trinity College Library te Dublin A prospect of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (titel op. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bbfa3d23-8bc0-4f93-b1e5-98c4038cebdd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gezicht_op_de_Trinity_College_Library_te_Dublin_A_prospect_of_the_Library_of_Trinity_College,_Dublin_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-1932-429.jpg
- **2015**, Lettres de bois à la brocante de L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c9c966e7-ebc7-4165-8b54-24678ff81ff0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lettres_de_bois_%C3%A0_la_brocante_de_L%27Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.jpg
- **2015**, JAN 24 LBC JIKJI. The Jikji, printed in Korea in 1377 with movable metal type, 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e4a396fa-3d93-4c60-a010-927a1cb9d6ec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JAN_24_LBC_JIKJI.jpg
- **2015**, Alan Kitching on Press at The Guardian. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e98cc7f6-2feb-43bb-8aa1-1f8819b82383) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Kitching_on_Press_at_The_Guardian.jpg
- **2015**, Photograph of Female Employees Operating Machines for Stiffening Paper - DPLA - 88763f6db7b3063d42bcb11a241d95. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f02416ca-50cb-44e2-a61f-94b952482ace) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Female_Employees_Operating_Machines_for_Stiffening_Paper_-_DPLA_-_88763f6db7b3063d42bcb11a241d95ac.jpg
- **2015**, Historic Cherokee printing press letters at New Echota in Gordon County, Georgia (9fb7abb0-05d3-415b-a671-839f. Historic Cherokee printing press letters at New Echota in Gordon County, Georgia Historic Cherokee printing press letters at New Echota in Gordon County, Georgia; https://www.nps.gov/places/new-echota-state-park.htm Keywords: trte; trail of tears national historic trail; nht; national historic trail; calhoun; ga; gordon county; american indian; cherokee; historic location; cultural resources; nrhp [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/333553e0-c3db-4048-bbd3-9d1ab1b18a18) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Cherokee_printing_press_letters_at_New_Echota_in_Gordon_County,_Georgia_(9fb7abb0-05d3-415b-a671-839f2fd5505a).JPG
- **2015-06-18**, Is Cuban art inhibited by censorship?. PBS asks Cuban artists and writers whether state oversight limits what they produce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/500b7f03-de8f-427b-b49f-52d81aff1759) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Rlkk6NaKk
- **2015-06-23**, The bilingual brain. Explainer on how learning and using more than one language changes cognition across a lifetime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b7fef83f-7da2-402f-b258-0801fe704fd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmOLN5zBLY
- **2015-06-25**, The Florentine Codex and the Indigenous scribe. Getty symposium session on the tlacuilo, the Indigenous painter-scribe, and how Nahua and European ways of making books met in one manuscript. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cfa4210a-cf50-4da6-957f-167e85cdd5ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWsk9E4ernA
- **2015-07-11**, The King James Bible. A BBC documentary on the making of the 1611 English translation and its subsequent influence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05b6cd63-476c-43e6-aded-a201393b07b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4f9c8lnog
- **2015-07-22**, The Birmingham Quran and what it means for the text's transmission. Al Jazeera report on the manuscript and the debate among scholars about how early the Quranic text was fixed in writing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/59332051-935b-4187-b51d-35141a88e484) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Q19RT6LYc
- **2015-07-22**, Birmingham's Qur'an folios among the world's oldest. Radiocarbon dating places the parchment of a Qur'an manuscript at Birmingham among the earliest known. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7709f3fd-ca7a-47e7-b124-eb5daa0e2602) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HDFiC2boQ
- **2015-07-22**, The Birmingham Quran leaves, radiocarbon-dated to Muhammad's lifetime. BBC report on two parchment leaves in the University of Birmingham's Mingana Collection, radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE, placing them among the earliest surviving Quranic manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a9728705-bbea-4aa0-8e17-3c90feb2aec8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jowQond7_UE
- **2015-07-28**, The Vatican library reopens after restoration. AP Archive on the Apostolic Library returning to scholars after a three-year closure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/54c059f0-74fd-4c1a-ab5d-167598b0fbc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhsaQznRrDw
- **2015-07-30**, The British Library digitises its collection. An AP report on the British Library's digitisation programme and how items are scanned. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/262a8776-c475-44dc-a49a-763abd041793) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z1vTg0-Rxo
- **2015-07-31**, Myanmar ends direct media censorship. An AP report on the 2012 dismantling of Myanmar's pre-publication censorship board, with journalists' reactions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0eae27d9-6ce3-4391-b11f-d09b7e58a444) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DCuLkQTks
- **2015-08-03**, Sarajevo's national library reopens. AP reports on the reopening of the Vijecnica 22 years after it burned. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4a28cd1e-0408-4cec-9b4a-c63304c26516) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-qRJY-t0Y
- **2015-08-04**, Restoring Baghdad's damaged manuscripts. Report on the conservation and digitisation project working through what survived of Iraq's written record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ce26d6c2-98f9-4dcf-ab86-bf0f72ad5ffc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOSIg0awok
- **2015-09-11**, New discoveries about the surviving Magna Carta copies. Nicholas Vincent's Library of Congress lecture on tracing the surviving 13th-century copies of the charter and how one reached Washington. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/80243bd2-1863-47a7-ad71-32c7b4b98769) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGJNKVHdho
- **2015-09-30**, Carving a printing block. The V&A shows how a relief printing block is cut, and why the image must be carved in reverse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ba09f6d1-3c17-460c-81e0-d406ce43e91f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MV8W6wLF3w
- **2015-10-02**, Czechoslovakia and Charter 77. A lecture on Charter 77 and the typewritten circulation of dissident texts in Czechoslovakia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1f513b1-6eb5-418b-bb52-7a80f43b53d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxvr1m6Kw4
- **2015-10-09**, Ingenious impressions. A film on the Hunterian exhibition of fifteenth-century printed books in Glasgow. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/92ee0030-f4ae-4167-8ff6-872c4db9008f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3nZvrhAtc
- **2015-10-10**, The National Library of Sweden - Kungliga biblioteket Stockholm - lesesalen - reading hall [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2a97c577-9683-4a58-adcd-37fb223e1469) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_Library_of_Sweden_-_Kungliga_biblioteket_Stockholm_-_lesesalen_-_reading_hall.JPG
- **2015-10-15**, I cannot live without books. Library of Congress on the 1815 sale of Jefferson's collection that restarted the national library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/de9042a2-e349-4fdd-be49-fb7438f0bbf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF3MAsQ5po4
- **2015-10-16**, Out of silence: the Afghan Women's Writing Project. Readings from a project publishing Afghan women's writing, and on what writing and being read means under restriction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/07db0432-7682-4754-94d0-654fdc7cbed2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCX3pH7OvTQ
- **2015-10-18**, Illumination tools and materials. Calligrapher Patricia Lovett lays out the tools, pigments and gold used in manuscript illumination. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/35568a21-3676-43dc-8ba8-0d1b7a8b957b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcn7dlaiZh8
- **2015-11-05**, Inside the Prison Library Project. The Claremont Forum's programme sending books to incarcerated people, and how requests and restrictions shape what can be sent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a6c9683c-b273-40a3-b656-8df44c6575af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4h1EpI6Xo
- **2015-11-06**, The legacy of the Cairo Geniza. A scholarly lecture on the Cairo Geniza, the synagogue storeroom whose roughly 400,000 fragments reopened the social history of the medieval Mediterranean. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f09410e0-f0d3-4fdb-9a6c-0dc15799a491) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw42sWF0GUI
- **2015-11-10**, Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll. British Museum conservator Jin Xian Qiu, with 43 years at the craft, mounts a hanging scroll from start to finish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d979b629-73a2-4365-801a-d763f74e4430) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8_jZtq-p5Q
- **2015-11-17**, Gutenberg bible, Genesis, Chapter XI, Volume I-9r - Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin - DSC0. Exhibit in the Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/389a4782-a0fa-4d7e-8e3c-ad07e07671f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_bible,_Genesis,_Chapter_XI,_Volume_I-9r_-_Harry_Ransom_Center_-_University_of_Texas_at_Austin_-_DSC08418.jpg
- **2015-11-25**, Mao's Little Red Book, thrown across the Commons. Newsnight report occasioned by a copy being brandished in Parliament, on Quotations from Chairman Mao, printed in the hundreds of millions from 1964 and among the most-produced books in history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cb8fc322-c97f-4394-8bfb-0e194aa85872) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DBuYdbNgn4
- **2015-12-21**, Mughal painting between Persia and Europe. A Getty Research Institute lecture on how Mughal atelier painters absorbed Persian models and European prints into the illustrated book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2b32a2d5-55e5-4682-8e90-92ac21737a94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VtLofWU0U
### 2016
- **2016-01-19**, When books went to war. Molly Guptill Manning on the wartime programme that put around 120 million Armed Services Editions into soldiers' hands, and on the book-burning campaign it was framed against. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d01feffa-c1da-494f-975e-434ce89366bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vTu-j35ls
- **2016-02-11**, Children's reading in the digital age. RSA panel on designing literacy learning that works with rather than against digital media. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7bbe06e2-af00-4e26-8daf-550d4989b131) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Qf6cOQ7RI
- **2016-02-18**, The controversial origins of the Encyclopédie. A TED-Ed animation on how the Enlightenment encyclopaedia was assembled and why authorities tried to suppress it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4b794e12-c50d-414a-adba-625505cff137) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv4bWkoG4k8
- **2016-03-02**, The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project. British Library introduces its Polonsky-funded programme to digitise its Hebrew manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e5d74b0a-9903-4038-9a94-c1815566512c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKHDIeZ0ysY
- **2016-03-04**, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Alice in Wonderland. An Oxford humanities lecture on the origins, publication and reception of Carroll's book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d7883bed-69a2-403e-b408-aaafade88baf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFeAMITfSs
- **2016-03-04**, How publishers and the War Department made 120 million books. Talk on the collaboration between publishers, librarians and the US War Department that produced the Armed Services Editions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cb12f3da-4993-41b1-b687-7d3a73b53722) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVfup6P0Lw
- **2016-03-09**, A tour of a working type foundry. Robert Magill shows the machinery and technique of casting metal type at Monumental Type Foundry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a5469ebb-ef24-4e8f-a998-689db07548a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4nNH357ke4
- **2016-03-16**, Cuneiform inscriptions found on the lapis lazuli cylinder seal of Shagarakti-Shuriash were recorded on this cl. Cuneiform inscriptions found on the lapis lazuli cylinder seal of the Kassite king Shagarakti-Shuriash were recorded on this clay tablet from Nineveh, modern-day Iraq. Circa 689 BCE. Currently housed in the British Museum in London. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d49ef8a-a909-4f78-83f9-22e99aea8f70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuneiform_inscriptions_found_on_the_lapis_lazuli_cylinder_seal_of_Shagarakti-Shuriash_were_recorded_on_this_clay_tablet_from_Nineveh,_Iraq._Circa_689_BCE._Currently_housed_in_the_British_Museum_in_London.jpg
- **2016-03-18**, A thousand years of the Persian book. A Library of Congress curator's tour through Persian manuscript and printed book traditions across a millennium. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7e9dea39-749f-4d50-a780-2325d5c9d5fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdqDEn0LBjw
- **2016-04-07**, Restoring a Nuremberg Chronicle. Conservators at Wake Forest describe the printing of the 1493 chronicle and the process of repairing a surviving copy leaf by leaf. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cbdee4c1-dc78-4b05-9f9e-813203f010e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBCq1kNbA2w
- **2016-04-18**, Phototypesetting on a Berthold Diatype. A Berthold Diatype phototypesetting machine of about 1960 filmed at work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a939338a-0f73-4777-ab6f-370a95c64c9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76qwCF6ThLs
- **2016-04-27**, The librarians who saved Timbuktu's manuscripts. A BBC report on the smuggling of hundreds of thousands of manuscripts out of Timbuktu to save them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6ed0c853-a438-4368-a91a-5de6fb5c58fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBWHEv2pwng
- **2016-05-24**, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The British Library examines Orwell's novel, its composition and its 1949 publication. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d336a04-984e-4084-9622-d794830002cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmcyIP3GLE
- **2016-05-25**, Building a printing press at MIT. MIT students build a replica press to understand how books were physically produced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f2744536-a69e-43f6-b66a-dbad20221996) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPT8oDoG_I
- **2016-05-31**, The Calgary library. 3XN Architects' film on the design of Calgary's central public library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9b1c321d-30c7-4608-bac1-f5c3af996426) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SD0uw73NSM
- **2016**, Fournitures de couture (reliure). Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/07cc3ca2-e87d-4bad-a6d9-ec3e9992fad8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fournitures_de_couture_(reliure).jpg
- **2016**, Mongolian wooden printing block. A Chinese printing woodblock, the carved block itself, from which pages were printed. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/29059b61-5ce1-42df-b63e-30667d67e812) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mongolian_wooden_printing_block.jpg
- **2016**, Steam-Powered 4-Color Letterpress. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5455d502-ea10-44a5-b62f-085a6321c083) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam-Powered_4-Color_Letterpress_(26912237690).jpg
- **2016**, Steam-powered four-colour letterpress, a second machine view. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/72df9130-43c5-4eef-995f-b3c8fc9c906e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam-Powered_4-Color_Letterpress_(26912238450).jpg
- **2016**, Anti-illiteracy certificate, Soemaijah (1954-04-05) - Ministry of Education. Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/837d5051-cc04-49b8-89c3-c475bdecd641) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anti-illiteracy_certificate,_Soemaijah_(1954-04-05).jpg
- **2016**, Steam-Powered 4-Color Letterpress, view 2. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8d476493-8178-477b-92fb-0d580e23ef83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam-Powered_4-Color_Letterpress_(26582090773).jpg
- **2016**, Ningxia Museum wooden moveable print frame. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bba11d8a-18f1-4584-bbf9-1967a7d00bbd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ningxia_Museum_wooden_moveable_print_frame.jpg
- **2016**, Steam-Powered 4-Color Letterpress, view 3. Letterpress printing, relief printing from metal or wood type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bd8e0b50-8dd2-4c92-80cc-297db259b520) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam-Powered_4-Color_Letterpress_(26580935084).jpg
- **2016**, Ais en bois. Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fafb57d5-dfd8-4860-ad77-06e303298894) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ais_en_bois.jpg
- **2016**, Aethicus, Handschrift, Leipzig, Stadtbibl. Rep. I 4° 72, fol. 20v - Ausschnitt. Intertitle (III. HE DESCRIBES MANY THINGS REGARDING THE PEOPLES WHOM THE OLD TESTAMENT DOES NOT CONTAIN) in the cosmography of Aethicus, manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 9th century, in Latin script on parchment, 116 leaves, preserved in the Leipzig University Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8945c92d-63c5-481d-b68f-72a124a3b92f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aethicus,_Handschrift,_Leipzig,_Stadtbibl._Rep._I_4%C2%B0_72,_fol._20v_-_Ausschnitt.jpg
- **2016-07-11**, The Diamond Sutra: printing, piety and preservation. Susan Whitfield of the International Dunhuang Project on the scroll's making and its Silk Road context. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4fc6eb8-43b9-46ea-82a8-eadb2a9ac364) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP1x7UoDHMY
- **2016-07-18**, Two golden ages of Chinese colour woodblock printing. Portland Art Museum lecture on multi-block colour printing in China, including the Ten Bamboo Studio manuals, centuries before colour printing in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/abcc6d23-4000-4657-96de-e17b0dd5a97c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQTlOcac8Zo
- **2016-07-24**, The last punchcutter. A short film on one of the last people cutting type punches by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2444b8e-f2f1-4e1e-9fd0-38252c817549) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5m2Vzwm4u8
- **2016-07-26**, Designing world-class libraries. Architect Morten Schmidt on what a contemporary library building has to do. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0a91b102-765c-4fb7-ba79-fc996651e326) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNxwdVtk2I
- **2016-08-12**, Monastic worlds in special collections. University of Missouri Libraries shows monastic manuscripts held in its special collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aa09a963-bdba-4d08-9f9d-a0c0fd36870f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUq8TT7mArs
- **2016-09-09**, Multispectral imaging of Greek manuscripts. British Library on the imaging techniques that read damaged and overwritten parchment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/32cac752-93d4-4b10-8a44-179ebca13da8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lli3KiTy_-4
- **2016-09-19**, Allen Lane and Penguin Books. A film made for Penguin's fiftieth anniversary on the man who put good books in paperback at sixpence in 1935. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/582317a3-411d-4585-a84b-ed8e4f24682e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTQKJsZa6Ng
- **2016-09-20**, Jeffrey Ravel on Diderot's Encyclopédie. An MIT Libraries film in which a historian discusses the compilation and censorship of the Encyclopédie. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a14b6fa6-108d-4e36-b438-cb2259cef045) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMeGL32CNLY
- **2016-10-10**, Re-sewing the Book of Dimma. Trinity College Dublin conservators re-sew an early medieval Irish pocket gospel after repair and imaging. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4e9af6cc-21a2-4ba7-aba1-afe1e7ce3b12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4RN6-quGVo
- **2016-10-10**, Alchemy and colour in medieval manuscripts. The Getty on pigments manufactured by alchemical processes, and what modern chemistry reveals about them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4512ff5b-455c-4a6d-968d-d18a353e7ed0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REMPiP5Fgmc
- **2016-10-10**, The hall that has preserved 80,000 woodblocks. How the Janggyeong Panjeon depositories at Haeinsa regulate humidity and airflow well enough to keep wooden blocks intact for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/652faaa3-b1ae-4d05-a369-f8c00a3af78c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwBsYvaot0
- **2016-10-18**, The Greek editions of Aldus Manutius. The Laskaridis Foundation on Aldus and the Greek scholars who worked with him in Venice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/471af289-642d-45d5-b16d-3aecd1106553) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XW4v7cGTS0
- **2016-11-15**, Sixty-eight Qurans at the Smithsonian. News report on The Art of the Quran, the first major US exhibition of Quranic manuscripts, with loans from Istanbul including copies made for sultans and shahs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca8103b4-c29c-4130-964a-9c1e1a01d5a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9EKhAVeujQ
- **2016-12-07**, Inside the Smithsonian's Quran exhibition. PBS report from the Sackler Gallery on the calligraphy, binding and illumination of the finest surviving Quranic manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7cabbcd5-2634-4454-bd64-674164f7363b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8r5cc6hXAs
- **2016-12-14**, The lost archive of a medieval Islamic empire. Historian Marina Rustow on finding Fatimid state documents recycled as scrap inside Geniza fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a411100a-4b8e-440c-9356-369d85eae750) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=300WJmwLfOA
- **2016-12-15**, The Folger's secret search for First Folios. Stephen Brown on how Henry Folger quietly assembled the world's largest First Folio collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/94a0c37c-30b2-49ad-9f9f-195a3b092bbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgJDkrFILxM
### 2017
- **2017-01-03**, The Ruzbihan Quran of 16th-century Shiraz. Curator Elaine Wright on a Shiraz masterpiece in the Chester Beatty Library, a Quran whose illumination is among the most elaborate ever produced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca9d08f8-fc30-416f-8aeb-99e29f5d9a33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNC6k6XzPcE
- **2017-01-08**, Saving the books of Sarajevo. A documentary account of librarians who carried books out of Sarajevo's burning library under fire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9892610-19da-49ff-8962-663041eafa4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jlSf7mHIM
- **2017-02-07**, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the 1886 facsimile. An antiquarian bookseller presents the published facsimile of Carroll's original manuscript. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d088704-f41e-4136-af4c-2496ba105414) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS46PNg9H0g
- **2017-02-10**, Cutting a quill with a working scribe. Professional scribe Paul Antonio cuts a quill at Cambridge, showing the curing, shaping and nib slit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/88b4a524-ea32-4bb5-8dfd-3d0d41f08a6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpFCuI0pD8
- **2017-03-03**, A child with no books at home. National Literacy Trust film following a girl in a household where no one reads, and what access to books changes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f1c25a9-03d5-4e1d-9df4-38b2e6819060) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpKsh09gey0
- **2017-03-08**, Printing the Qur'an in the sixteenth century. A Cornell lecture on the earliest European attempts to print the Qur'an and how they were received. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7b638870-f14a-4f56-a7ab-6c5a3d52e752) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpmvtwag1vw
- **2017-03-28**, Explore the Bodleian Library. Oxford's Bodleian introduces the medieval Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/209c3b35-3859-49e1-a728-be7a140b835e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRscTmxMkfs
- **2017-03-29**, La linotype en action. France's Musee de l'imprimerie runs a Linotype, the machine first put to work at the New York Tribune in 1886. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9b519ff6-389d-4e0c-9d55-eee5762ffb7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEsAXZg-S04
- **2017-04-03**, The International Library of Children's Literature. The NDL branch in Ueno, housed in a Meiji-era building, collecting children's books from around the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6bf8e80e-39ad-402e-9d49-71c06ac73a11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjkczDG8J0
- **2017-05-01**, A tour of the Smithsonian book conservation lab. Smithsonian Libraries conservators show the tools and treatments used on their collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ff8246b4-ff7b-4bcb-9f2b-dfd83fb2f6cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mcepwasw4
- **2017-05-11**, A walking tour of the medieval book trade in Paris. Christopher de Hamel and Sandra Hindman walk the streets where medieval Paris made and sold manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f7439ecc-d70c-4654-8774-22b095ce952a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_A4RPPxzw
- **2017-05-16**, Jefferson's legacy: a history of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress historian on the institution's founding, its burning in 1814 and Jefferson's replacement collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/16b305ce-52cb-4a24-aead-32a3cb6c5924) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQJ7vVcGuo
- **2017-05-25**, The world's most mysterious book. Short animated introduction to the Voynich Manuscript and the succession of cryptographers who have failed to read it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ac5b6943-6952-49a3-9143-230e40468609) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NS4CbBJQ84
- **2017-05-30**, An offset lithography demonstration. Berkeley artist David Lance Goines demonstrates offset lithographic printing for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0dd1f863-e27e-4952-b9fb-c5cee76599c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4GmiXXAvuA
- **2017-06-08**, Okadabooks and Nigerian readers. CGTN Africa on a Nigerian e-book platform letting authors bypass traditional publishers and reach readers on phones. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/14482910-b330-42da-b8ce-0b2ee855a028) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWV4eO2_jY0
- **2017**, An old book with binding broken from use. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0430c37a-e08e-4c1e-9003-2c4911650fbd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_old_book_with_binding_broken_from_use_(38667214221).jpg
- **2017**, Bibliothekskater Linus, Herzog August Bibliothek. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/07372c5a-0298-4f6b-90db-0ae810dd05b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibliothekskater_Linus,_Herzog_August_Bibliothek.jpg
- **2017**, 20170812.해인사 장경판전(Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon).04. The Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa, Korea: over 81,000 woodblocks carved in the thirteenth century and still stored in their purpose-built halls. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0f81ffd5-c218-416b-bdbe-886401f56d6e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170812.%ED%95%B4%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%A5%EA%B2%BD%ED%8C%90%EC%A0%84(Haeinsa_Janggyeong_Panjeon).04.jpg
- **2017**, Fountain pen writing (literacy). Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/39616e84-8cfd-4439-8156-f8ea29005c52) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_pen_writing_(literacy).jpg
- **2017**, Praha, Hradčany Strahovský klášter 20170905 008. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4b45a171-c677-4504-bae7-c6a95d102926) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Praha,_Hrad%C4%8Dany_Strahovsk%C3%BD_kl%C3%A1%C5%A1ter_20170905_008.jpg
- **2017**, 20170812.해인사 장경판전(Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon).03. The Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa, Korea: over 81,000 woodblocks carved in the thirteenth century and still stored in their purpose-built halls. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7196ddd1-8f45-4537-92d0-d758c1aa13bc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170812.%ED%95%B4%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%A5%EA%B2%BD%ED%8C%90%EC%A0%84(Haeinsa_Janggyeong_Panjeon).03.jpg
- **2017**, Mongolian Traditional Culture Wooden Printing Blocks. Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/963e2944-bed7-4ce8-98f1-6e10b4fae271) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mongolian_Traditional_Culture_Wooden_Printing_Blocks_(34866893254).jpg
- **2017**, 20170812.해인사 장경판전(Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon).01. The Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa, Korea: over 81,000 woodblocks carved in the thirteenth century and still stored in their purpose-built halls. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1a3379b-61f2-4f8c-b9e0-2469f9964709) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170812.%ED%95%B4%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%A5%EA%B2%BD%ED%8C%90%EC%A0%84(Haeinsa_Janggyeong_Panjeon).01.jpg
- **2017**, Library book ban protest. Banned and challenged books, library displays, protests and censorship campaigns. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c4f68930-4fd0-4183-9f9b-61d8d1454283) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Library_book_ban_protest.png
- **2017**, 2017-10-04 Chained Library, Hereford. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d7524cde-6c68-4461-b5ab-49f2299ff39f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017-10-04_Chained_Library,_Hereford.jpg
- **2017**, BecksIsleMuseumPressH1c. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f4a989ab-1f8a-4179-bb51-863acf59497f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BecksIsleMuseumPressH1c.jpg
- **2017**, 20170812.해인사 장경판전(Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon).02. The Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa, Korea: over 81,000 woodblocks carved in the thirteenth century and still stored in their purpose-built halls. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f50623b1-61d5-4e55-935e-732af9f0bf5e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170812.%ED%95%B4%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%A5%EA%B2%BD%ED%8C%90%EC%A0%84(Haeinsa_Janggyeong_Panjeon).02.jpg
- **2017**, 20170812.해인사 장경판전(Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon).05. The Tripitaka Koreana at Haeinsa, Korea: over 81,000 woodblocks carved in the thirteenth century and still stored in their purpose-built halls. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f7a7f52c-3960-4a02-9f24-e06679592b04) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170812.%ED%95%B4%EC%9D%B8%EC%82%AC_%EC%9E%A5%EA%B2%BD%ED%8C%90%EC%A0%84(Haeinsa_Janggyeong_Panjeon).05.jpg
- **2017-06-24**, Vietnam's imperilled bloggers. Al Jazeera's Listening Post on the prosecution of Vietnamese writers publishing online. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8270f886-2568-4e6c-a6e6-640ea6bcbc9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_DRgW_COA
- **2017-06-28**, Conserving the Tangut documents. Time-lapse of British Library conservation work on Tangut material from the Stein collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/912f5c96-8cdc-4f4c-94dc-d2610c5b9327) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIP3jMfZkY4
- **2017-07-05**, Making a Mughal album folio. A Harvard Art Museums lecture reconstructing, layer by layer, how a Mughal album page was assembled from painting, calligraphy and margin decoration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5145d345-7921-4875-b4c5-5a9c96b4d698) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kti6sEjU98
- **2017-07-20**, The card catalog past, present and future. A Library of Congress panel on managing the modern firehose of information. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f80c90af-c1e7-4b77-801e-ac1a1cd80351) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X6gTftiAGM
- **2017-09-06**, Traditional Islamic papermaking demonstrated. Papermaker Radha Pandey presents and demonstrates Islamic-world papermaking, including the burnished, sized surfaces made for calligraphy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b2c195c4-4e83-4111-be5c-b0bfaf0f9519) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kntkIOKdFjI
- **2017-09-11**, Recycled Fatimid state documents from the Geniza. A lecture on how official Fatimid chancery documents survive only because their paper was reused for Hebrew writing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6c2d86a3-43c1-49e0-bb17-d139b97a69d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJzubrWLe4
- **2017-09-12**, Japanese woodblock printmaking explained. A museum demonstration of the Japanese multi-block colour process and the division of labour it required. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd57a957-6358-4408-ab0e-4de8abb25851) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhbSt_EVb7I
- **2017-09-14**, Bi Sheng, inventor of movable type. On the 11th-century Chinese artisan who made movable type from fired clay, four centuries before Gutenberg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0304e056-ebd7-4a65-9ede-f6e589b14917) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80hqLJq-Cc
- **2017-10-21**, Printing presses. A university museum lecture on the mechanics and development of the printing press as a machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f6059171-4c92-4b4e-b8a3-6767bd40194d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3JD7QCQarU
- **2017-10-25**, Armenian illuminated manuscripts. Art historian Christina Maranci on the Armenian illumination tradition from the seventh century through the kingdom of Cilicia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c754f276-8ae0-402d-ab16-6a592eb60633) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmm3i-z8CF8
- **2017-11-07**, Rem Koolhaas on Qatar National Library. The architect on designing the Doha library as a single terraced room, with the heritage collection sunk into an excavated floor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ff84d53e-cb62-4fd1-b760-ef656f0dd0a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7l7FRsWK2Y
- **2017-11-10**, A broad history of the card catalog. Peter Devereaux lectures on the index card as an information technology. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/32577f8a-5e2d-4650-807d-dd7e9f67e83c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG36UBHzQMY
- **2017-11-21**, From calligraphy to woodblock printing. Cheung Chung-chu demonstrates the full Chinese route from brushed calligraphy to a carved and printed block. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/596c7b3e-ee84-45cc-afb0-0ce06450feb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFODYb7PwzQ
### 2018
- **2018-01-19**, A first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866. An antiquarian bookseller examines a copy of the 1866 Alice, describing its printing history and condition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f163acb8-e129-435c-989c-ae6109b74930) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4l5tR9pWIo
- **2018-01-29**, Card catalog John Rylands Library 01. A card catalog at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, UK. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a63f955-de15-46d9-a7bd-8dc12bda77e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Card_catalog_John_Rylands_Library_01.jpg
- **2018-02-19**, Conserving the binding of the Salzinnes Antiphonal. Canadian Conservation Institute staff treat the binding of a large 16th-century illuminated choirbook. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4540fd6f-b081-46d3-aa9f-532887782bf2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKEUD_OJkTw
- **2018-03-02**, A stray Sumerian tablet. Cambridge University Library examines a tiny clay tablet from Zabala in southern Iraq, about 2200 BCE. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e9bd5c60-4957-4b28-86b1-75b001616246) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm4mXmivuZg
- **2018-03-06**, Colour in Mughal manuscript painting. The Getty examines the pigments and fine brushwork of 17th-century Mughal court portraits and how the paintings travelled to Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5710151c-eed3-4656-8686-c514618d933b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO9IkkjQhso
- **2018-03-07**, Armed Services Editions. A librarian shows the pocket-sized paperbacks printed for American troops in the Second World War, sized to fit a uniform pocket and printed on magazine presses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b308760c-9400-44c8-9bda-5ae393e26fed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyv8GRGDdo
- **2018-03-14**, Teaching adults to read. Adult-literacy teachers at Lehman College on what brings learners in and what keeps them coming back. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/65dff7ce-bed9-4d0b-b686-d8daf0238767) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3EU_x6Z50
- **2018-03-30**, X-raying the Syriac Galen palimpsest. Stanford describes using synchrotron X-ray imaging to recover a 6th-century Syriac translation of Galen hidden beneath 11th-century hymns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1db9fe7e-82c1-4e21-b682-c934fe6e1983) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPp_PyAS9-c
- **2018-03-30**, Seventy years of the National Diet Library. The NDL marks its 1948 founding, established after the war on an American model as a library serving both parliament and the public. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eb42ca2b-59db-4384-94fb-42c7394c88e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa_c6AaBTF8
- **2018-04-13**, Birds of America on permanent display at Yale. The Beinecke keeps only two books permanently open to the public: the Gutenberg Bible and Audubon's Birds of America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a956dfa5-a3c2-4674-97bc-4af382e575c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1v42cT7zj8
- **2018-04-19**, Censorship case studies from Vietnam. A conversation examining specific instances of censorship in Vietnamese cultural production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2a43e001-a3e6-4caa-b30e-80a8e2ade1da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjfFNdWkLA
- **2018-05-01**, Weird Tales and the pulp magazines. A history of the pulp magazine market that carried Lovecraft and Howard and shaped cheap popular reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ba145523-7b55-454f-bace-d046b4169c1b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnrcVZIK7M
- **2018-05-14**, Genizah scribes at work. Palaeographer Judith Olszowy-Schlanger reads the hands of Geniza scribes and what they reveal about medieval Jewish book production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05f2a815-aca0-48a2-a494-0daa2457e3c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyGL6FLrB0
- **2018-05-16**, Medieval ink from foraged oak galls. WoodlandsTV foragers make ink from galls gathered in the wood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d70fe989-7743-4d37-9988-326f05cf5d6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXd1ViBxSQ
- **2018-06-10**, Stretching a hide on the parchment frame. A practitioner shows the stretching and scraping stage that turns a limed skin into a writing surface. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/26900c98-f5a7-4790-850c-d6aff6edc5da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNh0ZxJQamU
- **2018-06-13**, Working under Iranian censorship. France 24 interviews an Iranian director about producing work within the approval system. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/80ab6f0b-4977-47e1-a029-4eb26acae3cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUtgFUNhuoU
- **2018**, Biblioteks haven. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05950fd1-4116-48cf-95cd-366c425d00e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteks_haven.jpg
- **2018**, Calligrafo JPG. A scriptorium, the monastic room where manuscripts were copied. Most surviving examples are photographed as rooms or reconstructions today. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0fa4d32f-368f-4425-a6a2-d510ddcff4b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calligrafo_JPG.jpg
- **2018**, A Stem History of paper production. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2055080b-8af2-43a5-898f-047100478b7f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Stem_History_of_paper_production.png
- **2018**, Linotype matrix anvil (1). The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/228279ab-2de8-4955-8e5a-1841d4862c14) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_matrix_anvil_(1).jpg
- **2018**, Gold leaf unicorn detail on the entrance door to the Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh. Gold leaf and gilding, the beaten gold applied to illuminated manuscript pages and bindings. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/582ae1af-8ab2-4b57-8039-285e2fbf2630) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_leaf_unicorn_detail_on_the_entrance_door_to_the_Queen%27s_Gallery_in_Edinburgh.jpg
- **2018**, Linotype machine Manchester works plate. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a8aebcbe-7e88-4a50-9e2b-a111ae16963f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_machine_Manchester_works_plate.jpeg
- **2018**, European Parliament Library in Brussels 2018b. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f3fcfb9d-a7fd-4591-844f-d1047099c567) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Parliament_Library_in_Brussels_2018b.jpg
- **2018-06-26**, The story of Islamic calligraphy. A documentary on how Ottoman masters in Istanbul codified Arabic calligraphy, and how the tradition is taught and practised today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/986831a3-30cc-4e0e-8d39-6ad0b35573ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYfKSBPNHE
- **2018-06-27**, Preserving the manuscripts of Timbuktu. PBS NewsHour on the manuscripts smuggled out of Timbuktu during the 2012-13 occupation and the effort to digitise them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3799fbb2-f75d-4521-88b5-6de059a87a38) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-s7fhgCI5g
- **2018-07-03**, Libraries: the architecture of community. Kenneth Breisch on American library architecture from 1730 to 1950 at the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/298bebf3-b0d5-47f6-aa40-9466fdb07fca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eW-OBTV7g
- **2018-07-14**, Parchment making: an Oxford introduction. Bodleian conservators Nicole Gilroy and Andrew Honey explain parchment production and conservation for Oxford manuscript students. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7ef550d2-8e99-47e6-a1ce-32a4aaca83c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=108Yb9wjTwY
- **2018-08-07**, Multispectral imaging of Codex Zacynthius. Cambridge University Library images a Greek New Testament palimpsest to recover the erased undertext. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4b738371-7fd0-4f46-9685-c626d77aca35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXb8qBYgPQ
- **2018-08-25**, The machine that made us: Gutenberg's press. A documentary reconstructing Gutenberg's printing technology and the making of his Bible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8a6ee5bd-b7bb-401e-ad97-d182b511ec78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ88yC35NjI
- **2018-08-26**, How an illuminated manuscript is made. A chaptered walkthrough of manuscript production: parchment, ink, quills, writing, correction, illumination and binding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f8ae2e17-4e67-424a-b1ba-faa5269e04f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyuQpwVGHqw
- **2018-09-08**, White vine illumination with gold leaf. A calligrapher paints a 15th-century white vine initial and applies and burnishes the gold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0cc35b9-f4f2-4f4f-9cb9-b72423dff2c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywjkjkE2ZQQ
- **2018-09-26**, Jikji: the first Korean metal-type printing. A seminar talk on the 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/520f027e-7263-4eb0-ac92-da65702910a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTxCnz_lvUY
- **2018-09-27**, Hidden details of the New York Public Library. Architectural Digest's guided tour of the building's design and construction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/342331d8-e9db-40a5-aff0-242546150bf4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roi5V8ppi7Y
- **2018-10-09**, Harry Potter: A History of Magic at the British Library. An AP report on the British Library exhibition pairing Rowling's drafts with centuries-old books on magic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cf351eea-ce9d-45ae-afc9-c29ad8ca0cba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJYTwgBe5pA
- **2018-10-29**, The British Library Qatar Foundation partnership. An overview of the digitisation partnership that put Arabic scientific manuscripts and Gulf archives online. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d800e872-a44e-4cbd-ab47-13e1a3e29d51) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Y05pYcsrI
- **2018-11-01**, I am Ashurbanipal. British Museum trailer for its exhibition on the Assyrian king who built the Nineveh library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/33b8f87a-ceeb-4955-8113-86db68e09e84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OZe-y5tk9Q
- **2018-11-22**, Making manuscripts: paint. Patricia Lovett explains egg tempera and how medieval pigments were bound for the page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0061ddbe-3c7f-4eec-b33e-cfa8ad24740c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIlRuDGhlg
- **2018-11-22**, Making manuscripts: making miniatures. British Library short on the layered work behind a miniature painting in an illuminated book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/040d9073-8dc2-4ac4-b3ed-a57c83e6dc17) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRArbjBmreI
- **2018-11-22**, Making manuscripts: oak gall ink. British Library short with Patricia Lovett on why wasp galls were essential to medieval scribes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/313b72f9-6659-4377-b131-732df0d7bf35) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7k4-wj8mZ8
- **2018-11-22**, Making manuscripts: vellum. British Library short with calligrapher Patricia Lovett on the animal-skin support scribes used before paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af64760e-04df-48ce-b0f6-95c51133279c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPpURAIsW4
- **2018-11-22**, Making manuscripts: quills. Patricia Lovett cuts and uses a quill pen for the British Library, including left-handed cuts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eb3bf9e9-34c6-4521-b3af-de24ba78b2b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnhYzKLeHU
- **2018-12-20**, Diderot's Encyclopédie and the plates. Getty lecture on the 18th-century French Encyclopédie, its 28 volumes, its engraved plates of trades and machines, and the censorship it worked around. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8c1b503e-8e49-4886-b3e8-cf454dcbfb41) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBh70BaiXD0
- **2018-12-21**, Turning the page of a Gutenberg Bible. The Beinecke's Gutenberg Bible sits open in a case year-round; curators turn its pages a few times a year to limit light exposure to any single opening. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be318b6d-413f-4fdf-84be-6be6f32aaa28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKXDGFOoxvc
### 2019
- **2019-01-11**, A Linotype demonstration. National Museum of Industrial History runs its restored Linotype and explains the keyboard and matrices. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48489219-8f88-4cf1-a994-53e1e57de051) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2sYvUb4_0
- **2019-02-05**, Mobile-phone literacy in Egypt. A learner's account of an ICT-based literacy project piloted in Egypt using mobile phones to deliver lessons. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9588b61-1410-45ea-9f1b-d32fb1c877b6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j294MbFcZc
- **2019-02-06**, Typography: a very short introduction. Paul Luna on typography as the design of the reading experience rather than decoration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2a7eb7b5-2035-4c8c-8d45-7dbae3d53132) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKirwqhagk
- **2019-02-08**, The Lindisfarne Gospels - Smarthistory. Smarthistory on the c. 700 Northumbrian gospel book written and painted by a single hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/19cd1a39-43f1-489d-a819-0398f157749d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYds0dsratI
- **2019-02-09**, Libraries of the future in Europe. DW Euromaxx on new library buildings in Bilbao, Stuttgart and Tilburg that function as cultural centres rather than book stores. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/31a7f8e5-9d90-4d9d-99bf-b4f5f226b2e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxVthxXD48
- **2019-02-11**, The Rushdie fatwa, thirty years on. BBC Newsnight revisits the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and its lasting effect on publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7baafd8d-5d7c-4f08-a02d-6181c72b95c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42iV2U_nsfY
- **2019-02-19**, The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal. British Museum on the Nineveh palace reliefs that surrounded the tablet collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7818f8ff-65d1-4617-8e55-112824cf0895) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk_FtZnb7w
- **2019-02-22**, Principia Mathematica 1713. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 2nd edition, published 1713, opened to title page. (Displayed at Bobst Library of New York University.) [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4558e157-b08f-414e-b50b-ad48949a830e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Principia_Mathematica_1713.JPG
- **2019-03-07**, Newton's Annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica. Isaac Newton's personal copy of the first edition of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica annotated by him for the second edition [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bea9f22c-5ef7-4c89-bd1f-6e513ec8229d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton%27s_Annotated_copy_of_his_Principia_Mathematica.jpg
- **2019-03-13**, Handling Domesday Book. The National Archives on the physical object, two volumes, Great and Little Domesday, and how it is conserved and displayed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c41f4c7e-5646-4f7b-825b-ae1bad7a8439) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zs5lsY02X8
- **2019-03-18**, Atex and TeX. Computer History Museum session on newspaper composition systems and Knuth's TeX. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3a61857d-1cec-47a6-81c6-3b6017bd52bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaQs2rNBzA
- **2019-04-04**, The first 25 Penguins. A close look at the earliest Penguin paperbacks published in Britain in 1935. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d61ed6bf-d148-4076-8ee2-ba9592320d2b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_S0gHFmYY
- **2019-04-17**, What are incunables?. A rare book dealer explains the incunable and shows a sammelband of illustrated German works. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/401016c7-037e-43cb-bd96-8962c6f884f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgE9roscu04
- **2019-04-24**, The first major book printed in Britain. A British Library curator presents an early Caxton printing and the arrival of the press in England. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9a6b4073-c3a6-4064-b453-26069accc540) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D19cuBGP1RM
- **2019-04-24**, Recovering erased text in the Bodmin Gospels. British Library shows multispectral imaging revealing writing scraped off a page centuries ago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c7e95d06-1f7c-4db7-ab6b-b5f466ea2f7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygp3aC80kw
- **2019-04-24**, The St Cuthbert Gospel. British Library on the earliest intact European book, still in its original eighth-century binding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eae7234b-498e-463b-b5fd-d0da3ab13254) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgqxQa9ehI
- **2019-05-02**, Leonardo's notebooks brought together. British Library curator on displaying selections from three Leonardo notebooks, including the Codex Leicester, in the 500th anniversary year of his death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08d39eb4-678e-4752-bf48-be1cfe449d11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duFaB0pW81Q
- **2019-05-07**, Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. Archaeology Studio on the excavation of the palace and its library of clay tablets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ecfc4e22-4d63-444b-849f-31d84bfe2d67) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnv32zfbrM4
- **2019-05-09**, Exploring a medieval bestiary. A British Library curator examines an illuminated medieval bestiary page by page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9bf246d3-66b7-478d-9609-0018d92dc3bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7yVRykvGY
- **2019-05-10**, Where did medieval writers get their ink?. Modern History TV on the sourcing and making of ink in the Middle Ages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f893e204-1dfb-4db7-a11d-74c2c6795af3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHz3LuFyvek
- **2019-05-27**, How to cut a quill pen in two minutes. University of St Michael's College demonstration for its Scripts and Stories seminar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d77cb658-69d6-4d9f-9d2b-e5600fece4d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iCOam9GhA
- **2019-06-11**, The Fagel collection at Trinity. A Dutch book historian works through the library of the Fagel family, bought intact by Trinity in 1802 and one of the largest surviving private libraries of the period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0be360af-d7e8-4ac1-ae53-72dcc8a63b45) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZoCGaJAaoM
- **2019-06-11**, 36 million American adults who cannot read well enough to work. PBS NewsHour on adult literacy in the United States and on programmes reaching only a fraction of those who need them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6e044f37-d58d-49f6-92c5-43c680dac7d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8EYkepuqQ
- **2019-06-12**, A modern scribe at work on a Torah. Short film on the rules governing Torah production, where a single mis-formed letter invalidates the scroll. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4cfb734f-68d4-4a9d-a549-91b20dd2b5d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIem73qs60
- **2019-06-14**, The Tale of Genji in gold and pigment. Exhibition report on how the 11th-century Japanese epic was copied, illustrated and reissued across a thousand years of Japanese book production, including screens, scrolls and printed editions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be286e00-abe3-4d37-b6a2-85dfc505eabf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQN8qOAF4Xo
- **2019**, 21a Festa do Livro da USP 02. A book fair. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/136c976d-48dc-439d-b314-226e01b409a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21a_Festa_do_Livro_da_USP_02.jpg
- **2019**, 2019-08-20 Hereford Cathedral Library 01. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1b3507d1-f114-407b-9a2c-a68b95fee0f7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-08-20_Hereford_Cathedral_Library_01.jpg
- **2019**, Strahovský Klášter, Hradčany, Praha, Hlavní Město Praha, Česká Republika. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1e506415-418b-4eaf-bda7-406cf6bb297a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strahovsk%C3%BD_Kl%C3%A1%C5%A1ter,_Hrad%C4%8Dany,_Praha,_Hlavn%C3%AD_M%C4%9Bsto_Praha,_%C4%8Cesk%C3%A1_Republika_(48790731293).jpg
- **2019**, 2019-08-20 Hereford Cathedral Library 02. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2239f606-a8aa-429c-a87e-8eb5276adc54) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-08-20_Hereford_Cathedral_Library_02.jpg
- **2019**, Traditional paper making Goang Xing Paper Mill Taiwan 01. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/27cfdabe-2cf4-4070-b03a-196ab5e0bd13) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional_paper_making_Goang_Xing_Paper_Mill_Taiwan_01.jpg
- **2019**, Alexandria library (1). A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3a2ef1bf-91df-4341-bbd5-7c159aeb3b7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_library_(1).jpg
- **2019**, The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a second exterior view. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3b7f0f99-02ef-4eea-88fc-8ca4893e0042) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_library_(10).jpg
- **2019**, Château de Foix - Scriptorium 04. A scriptorium, the monastic room where manuscripts were copied. Most surviving examples are photographed as rooms or reconstructions today. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/403a96cb-5840-43c3-b090-032fd465ead9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Foix_-_Scriptorium_04.jpg
- **2019**, Monotype keyboard at MOP Haverhill - 1. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/44446ae3-dcaa-4682-a753-821a35bb2dcd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monotype_keyboard_at_MOP_Haverhill_-_1.jpg
- **2019**, 21a Festa do Livro da USP 01. A book fair. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/44baf086-5ae7-4d32-890b-3e96df7f1ffb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21a_Festa_do_Livro_da_USP_01.jpg
- **2019**, Château de Foix - Scriptorium 01. A scriptorium, the monastic room where manuscripts were copied. Most surviving examples are photographed as rooms or reconstructions today. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/46fafa53-0527-4661-9785-3605d7a2e0cf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Foix_-_Scriptorium_01.jpg
- **2019**, Magazingebäude Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel). A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48ad8c11-ebef-46f1-a4b4-152116058c7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magazingeb%C3%A4ude_Herzog_August_Bibliothek_(Wolfenb%C3%BCttel).jpg
- **2019**, Alexandria library (10), view 2. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48aeedc3-dd35-4a4f-a239-6d8723c42c58) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_library_(11).jpg
- **2019**, 2019-08-20 Hereford Cathedral Library 03. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5aac06ff-0ce9-4971-b3c0-46664ff691e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-08-20_Hereford_Cathedral_Library_03.jpg
- **2019**, 21a Festa do Livro da USP 04. A book fair. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6068c1b7-e6d3-494a-b007-fe9953c32820) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21a_Festa_do_Livro_da_USP_04.jpg
- **2019**, National Library Bus Station 20190719. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7def4c1e-dae7-4ca2-b49d-8780a494c164) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Library_Bus_Station_20190719.jpg
- **2019**, Fleur-de-lis watermark, 1787 Edinburgh Edition, Burns Poems. Handmade paper, a sheet formed on a wire mould, showing chain lines or a watermark. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/972855e0-f58d-452b-87fe-fc4f0645f80d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fleur-de-lis_watermark,_1787_Edinburgh_Edition,_Burns_Poems.jpg
- **2019**, Faculty of Arts Library, Chulalongkorn University. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/afc77e06-07d3-4c73-b9ee-59d1d89dc60e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faculty_of_Arts_Library,_Chulalongkorn_University.jpg
- **2019**, Strahovský Klášter, Hradčany, Praha, Hlavní Město Praha, Česká Republika - Warren LeMay from Cullowhee. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b2a92016-c731-42eb-b4ce-6d9b9d84aff6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strahovsk%C3%BD_Kl%C3%A1%C5%A1ter,_Hrad%C4%8Dany,_Praha,_Hlavn%C3%AD_M%C4%9Bsto_Praha,_%C4%8Cesk%C3%A1_Republika_(48791095171).jpg
- **2019**, 21a Festa do Livro da USP 03. A book fair. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be08846d-e77d-4d70-aa05-91a23a794679) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21a_Festa_do_Livro_da_USP_03.jpg
- **2019**, Election ballot printing. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bfe4e16b-979e-4621-9ff0-c94bcc520128) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Election_ballot_printing.jpg
- **2019**, 2019-08-20 Hereford Cathedral Library 04. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral, where 1,500 books are still chained to the shelves. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d5590658-af39-4569-baef-f45f6f91362b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-08-20_Hereford_Cathedral_Library_04.jpg
- **2019-06-22**, The boy who invented braille. BBC Ideas on Louis Braille, blinded at three, who by fifteen had adapted a military night-writing code into the six-dot cell system that gave blind readers direct access to text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d8f02e97-3182-4673-9c5b-8872b2783ada) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9BOQ6IpTSE
- **2019-06-27**, The brave librarians of Sarajevo. Al Jazeera World documentary on the librarians who carried manuscripts out of burning buildings during the 1992-95 siege, including the Gazi Husrev-Beg library collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c01b23ae-e4d6-4ef8-a091-6b45e519c755) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VExCtnYlMcs
- **2019-07-15**, Turning a feather into a pen. A historical-crafts demonstration of the full quill-cutting process, including tempering the feather before shaping. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8a64681d-0d62-4ca4-a4e1-792a60e29b59) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3aPOXkzNPk
- **2019-07-24**, Irving Finkel on cracking cuneiform. Royal Institution lecture by the British Museum's Irving Finkel on the world's first writing system, pressed into clay tablets in Mesopotamia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66efefae-4468-477e-9d6e-620d4f0e287c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA
- **2019-08-21**, Traditional bookbinding on the production line. How It's Made follows a book through the traditional case-binding process. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9471208-5b85-4262-a6ae-e656fc994232) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiCRx1_Ovok
- **2019-08-23**, How was it made? Electrotype. The V&A explains electrotyping, the electrochemical method of duplicating a printing surface. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f5636082-7f0d-4b58-b8dd-b86cfb236cfc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCTqGEPjh6g
- **2019-08-29**, Conserving a Chinese ancestor portrait. Cleveland Museum of Art conservators treat a large Chinese portrait scroll for display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f281ada6-8f6e-4dbe-8439-ab189d5fec24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDh71r7glyM
- **2019-10-02**, Discovering sacred texts: Judaism. The British Library presents the Torah scroll, Talmud and Haggadah as physical book forms with distinct making traditions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8ac60192-83a8-496f-b3e9-f0f7db168416) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39MQJuX9A9g
- **2019-10-02**, Hindu sacred texts as manuscripts. The British Library on the Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, and the long passage from oral recitation into written palm-leaf and paper manuscript traditions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a8b62d18-baf9-47ab-a7e7-3f17a828e44e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AxUtOLG9gc
- **2019-10-18**, The Ramayana as painted manuscript. A curator at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, on illustrated Ramayana manuscripts and how the Sanskrit epic was copied and pictured across South Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3819e402-7d8c-48ac-9d0a-23618a9fa1ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JV2CJR4WcE
- **2019-10-20**, The library of the popes. A tour of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the ancient texts it preserves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8ff7c015-efb1-4bc5-8441-7906f0c7240d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgiYKfSuaVg
- **2019-11-08**, Audubon's Birds of America and the double elephant folio. Sotheby's on the 1827-38 work printed at nearly a metre tall with 435 hand-coloured plates. Around 120 complete sets survive and it repeatedly sets records as the most expensive printed book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fd626940-fda7-4591-aedf-18cb9b06b8e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_qDRpNwShI
- **2019-11-13**, The neuroscience of reading. Maryanne Wolf's conference talk on the reading circuit and the risk of losing slower forms of attention. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f9e44aab-28f0-401a-bc22-f1059a0386ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TEiV49Fa4
- **2019-12-02**, Printing The Great Wave. The Tokyo National Museum demonstrates the woodblock process behind Hokusai's most reproduced print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5f25aa83-bf11-4c8a-a904-aaeabbb10ebc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263hot9G8NA
- **2019-12-10**, The Ahmed Baba Institute, seven years after the fire. Archive report from Timbuktu on the research institute whose manuscripts were burned by militants, and on the scholars who now stay away. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af00a0e8-3ebe-4aa8-9384-a72e171ecf2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFuUso8kTE
- **2019-12-14**, Bookstore „Świat książki” in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Tomaszów Mazowiecki w województwie łódzkim, PL, EU. Świat Książki, księgarnia, CC0 Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1b6173d9-5f7e-4201-bba4-4d0a1bc798a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bookstore_%E2%80%9E%C5%9Awiat_ksi%C4%85%C5%BCki%E2%80%9D_in_Tomasz%C3%B3w_Mazowiecki.jpg
### 2020
- **2020-01-22**, Conserving the Bodleian's Japanese collections. Head of Conservation Virginia Lladó-Buisán on the Japanese books and scrolls at the Bodleian and the specific materials their treatment requires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c8f73eff-8789-4b0c-a62f-32ec1e612e7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8MYJZ0nlc
- **2020-02-18**, Amazon Empire: the rise and reign of Jeff Bezos. A FRONTLINE documentary on Amazon, which began as an online bookseller and reshaped how books are priced and sold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c33d2880-538e-454d-b977-baaf2113be24) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfJVj5z8s
- **2020-03-09**, The font wars. Typography.Guru on PostScript against TrueType and how the Macintosh won desktop publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08981a07-1a69-4277-a9bb-be531c1d7f55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9Dj7tBlkg
- **2020-03-18**, The propaganda films of apartheid South Africa. Al Jazeera's Listening Post on the state's own media output alongside its suppression of others. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/184319c8-f87b-42b6-8419-1fa7cca21a9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcJ1P4gG69M
- **2020-03-21**, Aldus Manutius and material culture. A talk at Magdalen College Library introducing an Aldus exhibition and the material evidence in his books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/73b5f571-c9ea-433c-91a9-4f58f8d104a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8GPzU6pnRQ
- **2020-04-01**, How the Linotype works. Ireland's National Print Museum explains the line-casting machine in brief. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/45887f02-14eb-494a-b12e-9791c81ab1b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHf9QUo03qc
- **2020-04-07**, Caxton's multilingualism. UCLA lecture by Ad Putter on the French, Dutch and English strands in Caxton's output. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a012ce3d-30ca-475d-8b57-607544eb225e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVQAUhGrRE
- **2020-04-17**, Before the ABCs. On the pre-literacy foundations laid before formal reading instruction begins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2a969c23-987d-4f60-8b36-f6614e00fb4d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqV1Y-BKd6o
- **2020-04-17**, Making medieval parchment from a sheep hide. A full documentation of parchment production from a raw skin, following the medieval sequence of liming, dehairing, stretching and scraping. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8ad71e7d-89c5-4b1b-8f8e-37c2ef6e7a1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnirEPT9nH0
- **2020-04-30**, The Islamic Golden Age and the House of Wisdom. Invicta documentary on Abbasid Baghdad as a centre of translation, copying and scholarship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66a823f5-0aab-4073-b6ae-fdc425ee9f66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4Sg086uLg
- **2020-04-30**, A history of reading together at home. Oxford research seminar on domestic reading aloud, family reading circles and the social forms reading has taken indoors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a29c41ea-63c7-48b6-8472-7007aece7007) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIoCJYry7SI
- **2020-05-07**, Inside audiobook production. Library staff walk through recording an audio book end to end, from narrator selection to quality control. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/31eaa83a-d902-4817-bbca-9b87c7e35913) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaOvcgsX3eQ
- **2020-05-12**, Jefferson's books and the founding of a national library. A Rare Book School talk on Thomas Jefferson's library and its purchase to rebuild the Library of Congress. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d88e89ba-e234-4b4e-9cba-92464a0dd0dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYM3U6liIL8
- **2020-05-13**, The Gutenberg press at the International Printing Museum. A museum tour of a working reconstruction of Gutenberg's press, showing how a page was set and pulled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3d87cdea-4cf1-4b80-bb75-b46d0929d07c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbV7Y8NddNg
- **2020-05-13**, A tour of the International Printing Museum. An introduction to the history of printing told through working machines in a museum collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/511a9a6f-8d58-44fd-bce2-be8bef7ce69e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNm048hspj8
- **2020-05-13**, A librarian on Audubon's Birds of America. Rare-book talk on how the plates were engraved by Robert Havell in London, hand-coloured, and sold by subscription over eleven years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6ff2c8f1-97f3-44ec-bc9e-965136e0018a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7-ATQmN2cw
- **2020-05-14**, A Gutenberg press demonstration. A curator operates a reconstructed Gutenberg-style wooden press, inking with dabbers and pulling an impression. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2a9dc4e0-ceae-40ff-a400-4203f797c3a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9829ji5wuAE
- **2020-05-15**, Hand-set type with a working letterpress printer. Devan Penniman demonstrates handset composition and printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a20b3659-c572-45e1-b2a5-acdf1e77a448) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zISQGNh1Xw
- **2020-05-15**, Pulp magazines in the 1920s. A social history of the pulps as a mass reading format, covering their production, price and audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/effdf0de-845c-4389-9b62-f8d458faf759) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkcfCO-KRY
- **2020-05-18**, Three Gutenberg Bibles at the Morgan. Virtual tour of the Morgan Library's Gutenberg Bibles, the only institution holding three significant copies, with detail on the c.1455 printing of around 180 copies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/595ea21b-a6a6-4c9c-9c45-4a27ba869cd6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIteWBHSa00
- **2020-05-26**, Making an insular manuscript like the Book of Kells. Artist Thomas Keyes narrates the whole insular process, from making parchment and pigments to calligraphy and illumination. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1d4e14e6-471b-4d42-886c-b41dcdcee00a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwVEInhJu0Q
- **2020-05-28**, Manuscript mise-en-page. A Bibliographical Society seminar on the internal design of the manuscript page: pricking, ruling, columns and hierarchy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/22f43f4f-ed28-48e5-bac0-c78794972691) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2SYHJkMHys
- **2020-06-01**, Raised gilding for manuscript illumination. A full class on raised gilding: laying gesso, applying gold leaf, then polishing and burnishing it to a mirror. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/db01cbde-4dc8-435e-b6e6-b85dc4c99220) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhBMgkuCQo
- **2020-06-02**, Washi in Japanese rare books. A short study of the paper used in Japanese rare books and how its structure differs from Western paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6df94594-08a5-4a41-9fde-473c4a97bc4e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5TLTmT5Vw
- **2020-06-03**, Legal deposit for librarians. A professional webinar on handling legal deposit enquiries and obligations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b39a8c35-a9ed-4ece-8828-44db2b7ac7eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWf4f1aJMB0
- **2020-06-08**, Making a lithographic print. A museum demonstration of stone lithography, the chemical planographic process behind mass-produced images. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2368d4be-efa6-4c93-9cbf-6f95b390e9f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0So4M7Tbis
- **2020**, Generika Type Specimen. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/070d9c4e-dc9c-4446-8f3f-9f1acb65c4c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generika_Type_Specimen.png
- **2020**, Ōhashi Library at Kudanshita. A destroyed or ruined library. The Leuven university library was burned by German troops in 1914 and again in 1940. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/072f7d0a-1344-406f-be9e-2874438e858c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C5%8Chashi_Library_at_Kudanshita.jpg
- **2020**, 20200203 BibliotecaJoanina 5703. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0bddca6f-45f5-4463-8367-bb256672963a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20200203_BibliotecaJoanina_5703_(49655032573).jpg
- **2020**, 20200203 BibliotecaJoanina 5702. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1249ccc5-46d0-45bb-aed2-a7df7e55342a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20200203_BibliotecaJoanina_5702_(49655573536).jpg
- **2020**, Book Store. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48000d2d-49ee-4a41-a2a6-f89545bbe9e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_Store_(50681267233).jpg
- **2020**, Biblioteca Malatestiana Antica Codice Aperto Ravvicinato. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/60dd2f7f-2d7d-4d8e-ab21-ea4bbd58b79b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Malatestiana_Antica_Codice_Aperto_Ravvicinato.jpg
- **2020**, Biblioteca Malatestiana Antica Codice Aperto e Finestre. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/86c3b83b-5ecc-4d11-a5ad-fe7793cfa145) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Malatestiana_Antica_Codice_Aperto_e_Finestre.jpg
- **2020**, 20200203 BibliotecaJoanina 5704. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a980ed26-b811-4215-bbe6-39de698368dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20200203_BibliotecaJoanina_5704_(49655850992).jpg
- **2020**, Screenshot of Patron type specimen on Milieu Grotesque website. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aeab103e-4c4e-470e-8d75-fe6d8fcb0dba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_Patron_type_specimen_on_Milieu_Grotesque_website.png
- **2020**, Brezel Gortesque Type Specimen. Type founding, the moulds, machines and workshops that cast metal type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bc4c531b-0155-4b41-8d8c-a97b49e0237b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brezel_Gortesque_Type_Specimen.png
- **2020**, Francis Trigge library 02. The Francis Trigge Chained Library at Grantham, founded 1598 and reckoned the first public reference library in England. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d2969136-7f6e-4f77-84cb-5b50223bb0ec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Trigge_library_02.jpg
- **2020**, Biblioteca Malatestiana Antica Banchi e Finestre. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/db4448ac-cd4a-495c-b203-136ab3417236) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Malatestiana_Antica_Banchi_e_Finestre.jpg
- **2020-06-17**, The medieval girdle book. Margit J. Smith discusses her study of the 26 known surviving girdle books, the portable binding with a knotted tail for hanging from a belt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2265ebc3-6854-4b58-b0cf-f3222d175d81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK6GqEndris
- **2020-06-17**, The Derge printing house. The Tibetan printing house completed in 1729, which still holds hundreds of thousands of carved woodblocks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ad718f31-173e-4841-8522-c34e6a947936) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkKFtJjcPE
- **2020-06-23**, How Maya script was deciphered. The long effort to read Maya glyphs, from Diego de Landa's alphabet to Yuri Knorozov's phonetic breakthrough, and what it unlocked in the four surviving codices and the inscriptions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e2cd3d24-c190-4f01-8693-88a299e3481f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLs3gDLCOI
- **2020-06-29**, Myth-busting metal type. A book historian corrects common misconceptions about how movable metal type was cast and used. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3b509671-dec7-4262-9ef4-a854b0fdcbfa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZF4dpnCLI
- **2020-07-01**, How Penguin published Hiroshima. The story of Penguin's paperback edition of John Hersey's Hiroshima. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/15bd6e3d-acdf-4cbf-b307-189dddaf6144) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8JXPounzhg
- **2020-07-06**, Kosovo's National Library as architecture. Documentary on the Prishtina national library designed by Andrija Mutnjaković, one of the most argued-over library buildings in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/570cf786-25ea-451f-9321-f7d4114b411e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PaUrNorVQg
- **2020-07-07**, Larry Hurtado on the scroll and the early codex. The late New Testament scholar explains why early Christians adopted the codex while the rest of the ancient world stayed with scrolls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c6f255b9-4473-4dfe-a31c-bb3091a6a529) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t84AxlXbJuM
- **2020-07-13**, The tools of the parchment maker. Sara Charles lays out the lunellum, frame and other tools needed to turn a skin into parchment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/070a4005-8786-48c1-96b8-260b512d9457) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvqIZQFXc30
- **2020-07-16**, Limp vellum binding, medieval style. A long-form demonstration of limp vellum binding, the flexible parchment-covered structure widely used before hard boards became standard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b944d3b1-2716-45f6-9e6d-6aac8871ceee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11lAhVBmcs
- **2020-08-19**, Syriac manuscript decoration. HMML's curator of Eastern Christian manuscripts discusses a Syriac miniature and the depiction of the manuscript's own owner. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4d6297b4-1536-4ab5-a9a6-66aa37f774e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBR94aiR2XU
- **2020-08-30**, Making medieval iron gall ink. A scribe follows a historical recipe for iron gall ink from oak galls, iron sulphate and gum arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f760af47-2e2c-43d6-af8a-a587cd15d35b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9rbRRCBv8
- **2020-09-13**, Hand papermaking through the centuries. International Paper Museum on how hand papermaking developed after paper reached Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5edaed39-198d-4054-8b1b-2353e5026f7f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UukL40YJDhs
- **2020-09-21**, The history of banned books. A PBS Storied episode tracing the long record of banning and burning books and the reasons given for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e3102318-3bbf-4bd2-8fc4-1aa2c2a59825) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpKqRC-9Avc
- **2020-09-23**, Oxford 700: the first purpose-built library. The Bodleian marks 700 years since Oxford decided to build a central library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9ad0640e-1465-4802-b473-b5cb8e0023d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSmB35Q7uOk
- **2020-10-15**, Parchment making, studied by scientists. The University of Namur's Pergamenum21 project shows parchment being made while physicists, chemists and historians analyse it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/159543af-8e24-415e-b4b1-d519c257882e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TmyEiVUTlg
- **2020-10-22**, The hidden treasures of Timbuktu. An animated TED-Ed history of the Timbuktu manuscripts and why they spent centuries hidden in private hands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d6de9c0-7937-4eff-84c9-349a08f761ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ehHbdi95o
- **2020-11-04**, The Columbian press of 1824. The International Printing Museum operates a Columbian, the American iron hand press with its counterweighted eagle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/14f0c0a8-aaf2-43ea-97b3-ee5a72655322) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jChZbRd1v-4
- **2020-11-05**, Inside the Fellows' Library at Winchester College. A tour of a historic school library and the rare books it has held for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a72a5c05-6b99-4437-a849-11de88f248d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1R4zI4jrxE
- **2020-11-05**, Conserving Trinity's Old Library. Trinity College Dublin on the redevelopment intended to protect the 18th-century Long Room building and its collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed07fa4b-8ff8-479b-a410-3fedd3bd85c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eMhLdIPA54
- **2020-11-06**, Banned Books Week: resisting self-censorship. A British Library panel on how writers and publishers anticipate objections and censor themselves before anyone bans a book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a16bd9c4-cc6f-4862-8f0a-e8c6ae5fdd84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqhzis7RX3s
- **2020-12-02**, From dime novels to pulp fiction. An academic lecture tracing cheap popular publishing from frontier dime novels through to the pulps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2813abbd-29c8-4cff-aa10-1eab27e277e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2S2f_ZhqNw
- **2020-12-03**, A new edition of the Codex Leicester. Martin Kemp and Domenico Laurenza on Leonardo's notebook of water, geology and the Moon, written in mirror script, later bought by Bill Gates in 1994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fa865c6f-4208-4b04-8496-caa765f4bd62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCFue1pxDU
- **2020-12-05**, Fifteenth-century binding method. A bookbinder demonstrates a 15th-century sewing and covering structure as part of a practical medieval binding series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cba37da7-af4e-4a66-8cec-c2b3654d69f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj4lMGPqFj4
- **2020-12-07**, From tablet to codex. State Library Victoria's Dr Anna Welch traces how the physical form of the book changed across three millennia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6d22c782-9a6e-4815-aa86-d6b35f00992c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwzI8wwphxs
- **2020-12-07**, Repairing ancient Chinese books by hand. A Beijing book-repairer shows how damaged Chinese thread-bound books are taken apart, mended and resewn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5b74430a-1a01-4d65-ae3f-d628db4cc46f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC7HtY3X79o
- **2020-12-18**, Image and text in woodblock-printed Diamond Sutra commentaries. Academic talk on how illustration and commentary were combined in printed Chinese Buddhist books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1f12bd5-1b81-4df5-8dc1-c4f09a9fdf72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-N2Hw14wjk
### 2021
- **2021-01-04**, How the Internet Archive works. The Internet Archive's own introduction to its collections, tens of millions of items and billions of archived web pages, and how to navigate them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f394e017-2988-4b21-8f0d-585a1c0c25bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCBy9z3f9Mw
- **2021-01-20**, The Polyglot Bible at Plantin-Moretus. The museum's own account of the Polyglot and the scholarship and financing behind it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90274953-203d-40ed-86d0-fc46941ff290) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kouKYoZPUJ8
- **2021-01-31**, The Popol Vuh: a Maya book that survived as a copy of a copy. The K'iche' Maya creation epic was written down in the Latin alphabet in the mid-16th century and survives only through a Dominican friar's early 18th-century transcription in Chichicastenango, now in Chicago. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/96a52e4e-a4c1-45ed-a0c4-74b9ee2cb05e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIL-uc2Kuw
- **2021-02-02**, Illuminating a manuscript the traditional way. Discovery UK craft segment on making an illuminated page using period materials and techniques. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e5aa9730-ac90-417f-92c5-fee1120b58e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF2nmSLjPG8
- **2021-02-08**, How early printed books were personalised. USC Libraries on hand-colouring, rubrication and annotation added to printed sheets by their owners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4d348df-a9a9-4ddf-b28a-e2ceeb1474e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7AykAThD8
- **2021-02-10**, The last handmade press in America. Business Insider inside Arion Press, where books are still set in metal and printed and bound in one building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/813ed05e-693d-4a5b-82c7-ff8ffce9a36c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xKcRrn_i4
- **2021-02-13**, The original Alice at the British Library. A 1989 British Library film about Carroll's manuscript and the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/937a219c-c34c-4d91-bf90-6bf7e43b29bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNy1wSvozjI
- **2021-02-23**, Islamic calligraphy: the masters and their scripts. Calligrapher Soraya Syed traces the development of Arabic script from the earliest Qur'anic hands through the classical canon, for Birmingham Museums Trust. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ac870191-0af6-4ab0-af20-8f61a98fe3d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqLfAMJIPAE
- **2021-02-25**, The curious history of the world's first encyclopaedias. A university lecture tracing attempts to gather all knowledge into books, from antiquity to the Enlightenment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b348df3-ac77-4802-b40e-67199008f009) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhHCJmIvP4
- **2021-02-26**, An introduction to iron gall ink. Sara Charles gives a Courtauld talk on the ink of the medieval manuscript and charter: how it was made and how it destroys the paper it sits on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/27562b6c-a402-4c22-a3c8-651ba28a6494) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EuVBSKpdzM
- **2021-03-02**, How was it made? Printing and binding a book. The V&A condenses the whole sequence of printing and binding a book into one demonstration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/10375392-5ee6-4366-8411-5027b068a7d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4j_McrUmqM
- **2021-03-04**, Islamic miniature paintings at the John Rylands Library. A curator's tour of Islamic manuscript painting and Qur'ans in Manchester's John Rylands collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d253f33-07c1-4c61-baa5-18f3fb3a7041) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bdGQdrUmg
- **2021-03-07**, The last parchment workshop in America. Business Insider visits Pergamena, where animal hides are still turned into writing parchment by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/25f8f9d1-b2f8-401b-9bd5-c3c79e920074) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchdBfAK2aw
- **2021-03-09**, Iran's book club. Al Jazeera on the appetite for Western titles in Iran and the constraints on publishing them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/77d67a45-448d-4cce-b002-96bc71f4e1c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDAb2SLms8
- **2021-03-12**, The paperback revolution. A history of the cheap paperback, from Penguin and Pocket Books to the wartime editions that put books in pockets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ae22f866-d666-40b2-8cfa-c596781ad33d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC32-QoKemw
- **2021-03-14**, The Gutenberg Bible. Museum of Printing lecture by Professor Frank Romano on Gutenberg and the printed Bible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ce745b5f-1d32-40a0-b168-b5eece0546bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_dI52bJp0U
- **2021-03-18**, How to look at Persian painting. Art historian Sussan Babaie explains the visual conventions of Persian manuscript illustration. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ec979c9-ad8e-48aa-8eba-37e049b6f136) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyDKWuPWIg
- **2021-04-05**, Chains and curses: medieval book security. How libraries protected books before cheap copies existed, from chained shelves to written curses against thieves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b811f28a-9181-434e-9f24-f83761b5c17e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8xwiQmtU0
- **2021-04-07**, Egypt's last papyrus makers. Business Insider films the one Egyptian village still making papyrus by the 5,000-year-old method of soaking, layering and pressing reed pith. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/37d7ef78-bbc9-4bba-9703-f52b7154c25b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBdVhvo2UUM
- **2021-04-09**, Making medieval manuscripts. An Art Gallery of Ontario conversation on the artists, materials and workshop economics behind illuminated manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0643b5ad-0ecb-428e-a382-6d5203f90a80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SXsxJNTtzs
- **2021-04-12**, New arrivals in the Law Library's rare books. Curator Nathan Dorn shows recent additions to the Law Library of Congress rare book collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/250345d9-cd00-4ad5-8ee3-2a5dace1854a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr8Kq5-mRB0
- **2021-04-19**, A tour of the King's Library Tower. A British Library curator tours the glass tower holding George III's library at the centre of the building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b16001f5-a3cd-4e51-899d-925e46d0e1c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKl7BJZO1NY
- **2021-04-20**, The Linotype at the German Newspaper Museum. Wadgassen's newspaper museum demonstrates Mergenthaler's 1884 composing machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1e1a66b6-f980-4974-92d9-6e03bbc9c3a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1o6HhZ9DWM
- **2021-04-26**, Mythbusting book collecting with Rebecca Romney. A rare-book dealer explains what actually makes a book valuable and corrects common assumptions about collecting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a9eeb05d-e03d-4c4c-8f65-25c4175621db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WdvuPx5FA
- **2021-04-29**, Imaging science and the medieval manuscript. A Harvard science talk on what spectral imaging reveals about manuscripts: erased text, pigments and the history of a page's reuse. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2c95a2df-4a9a-47fc-a862-e8e93693bab6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFHABAHjps
- **2021-04-29**, State censorship in Ireland after 1930. Historian Aoife Bhreatnach on how the Irish censorship of publications system actually operated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ebe9b348-fc61-415a-89d3-fd11aff5f97a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlZAsPRQN4
- **2021-05-05**, The Divinity School. A virtual visit to the fifteenth-century vaulted room beneath Duke Humfrey's Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fc4a11d5-b44c-4db2-a9fe-43f0af55a1fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZOGlxFER_I
- **2021-05-18**, Bibliotheca Arabica: mapping the Arabic manuscript tradition. Scholars present a database attempting to describe the Arabic manuscript tradition as a whole rather than title by title. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5ab27387-cb1c-4b0a-980b-9eac43d1889e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyG4zFNozo
- **2021-05-21**, Funding the Old Library redevelopment. Irish government announcement of funding for the restoration of the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/935a1e37-27c9-432d-963e-6e4cb9e0a014) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xZkgFS7eaY
- **2021-05-26**, Ninety years of talking books. History of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, one of the original nineteen regional libraries set up in 1931, and of the NLS system it belongs to. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9f3e86c5-5742-4fc7-b698-45aa8be17aaa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9h7X9QmGBU
- **2021-05-27**, An 1880s newspaper flatbed press in action. International Printing Museum runs its Prouty power flatbed newspaper press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6ebe0390-bac1-4fc0-a847-4ee3c8785874) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTM7SzipMYk
- **2021-05-27**, Ethiopian bookbinding and its variations. Eliana dal Sasso surveys the structures of Ethiopian binding for the Consortium of European Research Libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2028012e-c3b7-42c9-8862-82b9f6a3f15a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZSJ93iRIFI
- **2021-05-28**, The Gutenberg Bible at the Morgan Library. The Morgan Library, which holds three copies, presents the first substantial book printed with movable type in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/50eceb5a-d791-41cf-88a2-7243aaa88339) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBbj5hj8DQ
- **2021-05-31**, Cuneiform: the earliest writing. World History Encyclopedia explainer on how Sumerian cuneiform developed from accounting tokens into a full script. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9f876eb1-4ed1-4c4d-bf77-8e0c3995a7a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DONiq9pyLg4
- **2021-06-01**, From Jikji to Gutenberg. A collaboration of historians, conservators and material specialists comparing the Korean and European metal-type traditions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d0aea503-655d-4686-91d1-652d18641f71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd-qG3NM93M
- **2021-06-03**, The woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana. A close look at the carved blocks of the Korean Buddhist canon and the accuracy of their text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f6ae0c98-5efd-4e5f-855e-975c8dba6f9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5MxlsxREY
- **2021-06-07**, Reading versus listening to audiobooks. A review of research comparing comprehension and retention between print reading and audiobook listening. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0e3b3c18-881c-479b-b812-63865579b311) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGiVmUT72c
- **2021-06-07**, Johannes Gutenberg and the first printing press. A documentary presented by Stephen Fry on Gutenberg's invention and the printing of his Bible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fe55f4b9-1d42-4e03-b333-2439fcf57ee4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-jkS5qOWS8
- **2021-06-14**, Hidden treasures of the Persian collections. The Bodleian shows lesser-known Persian manuscripts from its collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7c82e31b-efb6-4524-8cc7-b7cf56b840a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGceH-bEzlw
- **2021-06-14**, Conserving Akbar's Baharistan manuscript. Bodleian conservators treat a luxury Mughal manuscript made for the emperor Akbar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/814f4eaf-ccf9-4029-bc0d-3f60c3dc15e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQf0Q9orgnQ
- **2021**, Admont Abbey Library books 2. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/22f0689b-6f78-42dd-ac1d-6ea9923c0f4b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admont_Abbey_Library_books_2.jpg
- **2021**, Albion press at the Birkenhead Museum of Printing. An Albion press, the English cast-iron hand press of the nineteenth century, still used for fine printing. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/34a65316-4063-4e89-b7bd-406feaa1d7b8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albion_press_at_the_Birkenhead_Museum_of_Printing.jpg
- **2021**, 2021 New York City Anarchist Bookfair - The Anarchist Library table. A book fair. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/57087f5b-1b85-47ed-a024-683398a94f78) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_New_York_City_Anarchist_Bookfair_%E2%80%94_The_Anarchist_Library_table.jpg
- **2021**, Admont Abbey Library books 4. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6d74e133-8087-4b32-a72e-be961692570a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admont_Abbey_Library_books_4.jpg
- **2021**, Admont Abbey Library books 3. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d0db752-e9d5-48e6-9bdb-b9477a54c79c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admont_Abbey_Library_books_3.jpg
- **2021**, 2021 PapiermuehleInnen. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ad5e9c59-bb62-4b7c-aed9-c6a1d8945cd2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_PapiermuehleInnen.jpg
- **2021**, Limp binding. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f199a561-1c1e-4ce2-9309-a4a951b675be) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limp_binding.jpg
- **2021-06-17**, All about advances: what authors should expect. An Authors Guild panel explaining how publishers structure advances and royalties in book contracts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3b34a4f4-38ba-48e8-9d5f-5a0609599f05) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLsYaT4A-PI
- **2021-07-05**, Darimi bookstore. This is the library for men inside Dārimī Bookstore & Islamic Centre. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9e7b35c6-3225-409c-bea2-8fcc451e7715) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darimi_bookstore.jpg
- **2021-07-09**, Curator's choice: incunabula. State Library of New South Wales on books printed between 1456 and 1500, from printing's cradle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6e0834d6-7784-4b23-a356-cf9518578897) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXlqy7dEbVA
- **2021-07-13**, Early printed books in Europe. A museum session on what the first century of European printed books looked like as objects. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bcf1084e-b709-4b57-846f-cc372f3d30e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg042f1QNMo
- **2021-07-14**, The Voynich Manuscript, discussed at the Beinecke. Beinecke curators and linguists on MS 408, carbon-dated to the early 15th century, written in an undeciphered script with unidentifiable plants, and on why no proposed solution has held. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3de2def3-9828-4717-9ff2-ca482b5486f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58h04GHKS8
- **2021-07-26**, Bound for Versailles: a bookbindings collection. The Morgan Library presents a collection of French royal bookbindings as objects of craft and status. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ede85e75-f5f3-4e81-abef-bbb61f0949f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GP44h_ni-c
- **2021-08-02**, How the brain learns to read. Harvard's Nadine Gaab on the brain regions recruited for reading, none of them evolved for it, and how they come to work together. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0703cc36-1c60-45ee-9aba-aee49a4bc5df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhH5qXWOi4
- **2021-08-11**, The Stasi and the Berlin Wall. DW's documentary on the East German security apparatus, including its control of what could be written and read. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cfbf8f5b-46d3-4353-9c2a-314a7df0ad70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxkWC6MgcQ
- **2021-08-19**, Inside a mobile library. A regional Australian library service shows the interior of its library on wheels and how rural stops work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/992fe7e1-1c34-43de-8695-a75b5340227e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lgFr0l87gM
- **2021-09-14**, How much was lost at the Library of Alexandria. A classicist assesses the evidence for the library's decline and what scholarship it actually held. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9a3a8478-c542-44f9-835d-9b41156d0a5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQX9Lh65rAA
- **2021-09-14**, The Sinai Palimpsests Project. Recovering erased texts from palimpsests at Saint Catherine's Monastery using multispectral imaging. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9acd4b5a-1bd1-4b3f-91a6-0c2563001956) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHPs3FiKME0
- **2021-09-27**, Isaac Newton's earliest notebook. The Morgan Library presents Newton's student notebook, from the years before the Principia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/74dec8c5-a356-4f49-9606-5301f0b947f0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Zpo5yla7w
- **2021-09-27**, The human library in Nakuru. CGTN Africa on a Kenyan mental-health organisation running a human library, where people rather than books are borrowed for conversation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/30986998-0ae1-4731-a97c-9c47c906c136) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4VWzm6tBo
- **2021-10-05**, The Vatican Library, from the House of Wisdom to digitisation. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana exhibition tracing manuscript transmission from Baghdad's Bayt al-Hikma to its own digitisation programme, with a document leaving the Vatican for the first time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2bf87061-71a0-4590-ae5b-2bf18bd9ce71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpducEvojuo
- **2021-10-18**, Fifteenth-century Latin Bible printing and distribution. A Bodleian lecture on how printed Bibles were financed, produced and distributed in the first decades of print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/13f2d0b7-f41e-4a30-a1b0-57cc0267e569) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pvLmsNyIfQ
- **2021-10-20**, A lawsuit over Oklahoma's book restrictions. A local news report on litigation challenging a state law restricting classroom books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08c2b322-3d8c-4bdd-a4a8-3bb1aa412316) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtVo07b1L0
- **2021-10-20**, UNOG Archives Reading Room-07. Nations Unies, Genève, salle de lecture, archives de la Société des Nations. « Index cards of correspondence ». [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/49290bd6-f5f4-49f3-b6d6-5dd338ab98d0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNOG_Archives_Reading_Room-07.jpg
- **2021-10-28**, What reading on screens does to our brains. A BBC Ideas explainer summarising research on how screen reading differs from reading print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd7f7d1d-88d7-4e36-8347-7021c0366f73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyuGYiPwUs
- **2021-11-06**, Casting type on a Monotype Super Caster. A working type foundry casts letterpress type on a 1940s English Super Caster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fe5b5d74-5a25-41d7-85f0-594b836e3cb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS6RGUXhKo
- **2021-11-10**, How cuneiform was deciphered. World of Antiquity traces the nineteenth-century decipherment of cuneiform, including the Behistun inscription. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1c6bcbb-2654-420d-9ba7-17eba81ba910) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_wjO4TKrE
- **2021-11-18**, What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned. A documentary examining the destruction of the ancient library and how much of the story is myth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8af2d651-c920-48ad-a064-412da6f28a28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFI2kQpk5g
- **2021-11-18**, The William Morris archive and the Kelmscott Press. A curator's presentation on the Kelmscott Press holdings and Morris's approach to the printed page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4e623628-d1d4-4862-9f2d-4a209b70823d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0GLz6ESDA
- **2021-11-18**, Illustrations and early printmaking in Europe. A lecture on how images entered the printed book and the techniques that carried them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/670ac43a-8257-4dd1-a85c-f959d957b472) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmCmV34Wc6w
- **2021-11-19**, The library of Ashurbanipal. History with Cy on how the Nineveh tablet collection was assembled and what survived its burning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1fbab634-9665-4e87-9a33-2b5ee5608aa0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfNCc5kPX5o
- **2021-11-22**, The manuscripts and intellectual legacy of Timbuktu. A Gresham College lecture on the West African manuscript tradition, the empires that produced it, and the surviving family libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f74af474-839d-4749-a382-32a0b42bdd1b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQiqyyRfL2Y
- **2021-11-23**, Alice's Adventures Under Ground: a reading at the British Library. The British Library presents Lewis Carroll's original handwritten manuscript, the version he gave to Alice Liddell. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/300c3c52-3fd2-4cbd-a38e-9d98e59cd98f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGmVB4ZGR44
- **2021-11-30**, Hebrew manuscripts at the British Library. Curator Ilana Tahan presents the British Library's Hebrew manuscript collection and its major exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5ee15154-44e7-4a62-bff3-7ebb01d94967) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejijw6TxLWw
- **2021-11-30**, The bookmaker: an ancient craft in Ethiopia. Al Jazeera follows Ethiopian craftsmen making manuscripts by hand, from preparing skins to sewing the binding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af0b1641-e900-445c-a17e-2abb79ef0133) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrGQIBPQU2Q
- **2021-12-03**, Seonjang: Joseon-dynasty Korean binding. A demonstration of the stab-sewn seonjang binding used for Korean books during the Joseon dynasty. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/402000c9-fd61-42f7-8d9b-148f882a0f1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhrphYhv7FQ
- **2021-12-06**, Caxton, the printing press and Edward IV. A discussion of Caxton's patronage and how printing entered the English court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f06b881f-d32d-4b71-98b1-2a18659416e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXhyR-RGzZI
- **2021-12-06**, The city in the Nuremberg Chronicle. Harvard's Jeffrey Hamburger on how the 1493 chronicle pictured Nuremberg and other cities, reusing the same woodblocks for different places. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b01660d-ff20-45be-a0b2-d1a14ca1cbf3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DlyOFqzpeg
- **2021-12-10**, What was literacy?. A history programme examining how literacy has been defined and measured in different periods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/58a8b83f-6bd4-41e8-8f69-2ed95aabcca2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsmzoAbfxVQ
- **2021-12-11**, School librarians on the upsurge in removal attempts. PBS NewsHour interviews school librarians about the increase in challenges to books in their collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7155b7b7-5103-4f73-8703-35196d6787bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHlnwQ2Zj0A
- **2021-12-14**, A scribe in Mali. Al Jazeera profiles Boubacar Saddeck Najim, one of the last copyists in Timbuktu still replicating manuscripts by hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/13c9e24b-c6c4-4778-9335-ea989c1d2684) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9A028g5Pw
- **2021-12-18**, Making a medieval book by hand: folding and sewing. Four Keys Book Arts begins a full medieval binding: folding pages, endpapers, piercing and sewing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f412420e-8db2-4eee-b291-1fe7728c0896) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFuWfhESpFc
- **2021-12-22**, Mentari Bookstore Puri. An interior view of Mentari Bookstore, Puri Indah branch in West Jakarta, showcasing a cozy reading area with shelves filled with educational and children's books. The wall is adorned with a tree mural, adding a warm and welcoming touch, while a comfortable sofa invites visitors to sit and enjoy their reading experience or explore the diverse book collection available. Modern photograph of the sub [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bdc06671-ab36-4d1d-9575-c0a840d856eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mentari_Bookstore_Puri.jpg
### 2022
- **2022-01-10**, A short history of illuminated manuscripts. World History Encyclopedia on the decorated handwritten book and the precious materials used in it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e6aecd01-f612-48dd-ad6a-19ec886a827b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewasA24hPs
- **2022-01-12**, The Shahnameh, Persia's book of kings. BBC documentary segment on Ferdowsi's 10th-century epic of some 50,000 couplets, and its life as both a recited performance and one of the most lavishly illustrated manuscript traditions in the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bf344c2e-6717-40fb-a0ab-afdcd4c76b81) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRNJt2a22xE
- **2022-01-20**, A century after Ulysses was published. A library panel on what followed the 1922 publication, including the obscenity litigation and the book's influence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/57f8e24e-a1ec-42be-bd8c-d860435c7799) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk40uZAg7jI
- **2022-01-28**, Structuring the medieval page. How pricking, ruling and the writing grid determined the layout of the medieval manuscript page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/67e9103b-859f-45a3-ac2c-7603080fe58e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5KRMt5o0E
- **2022-02-04**, Architecture inside Persian painting. Chester Beatty curators deconstruct how Persian manuscript painters rendered buildings and space on the page. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2ef5e5da-4695-4e34-91a3-9834f485250e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7vGkpP72o
- **2022-02-04**, A reading competition in Kabul. Short report on a book-reading competition held to encourage reading among young Afghans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/34214ec1-c6bc-457a-9966-9f03225ed9ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xSKIy3ync
- **2022-02-04**, Traces of scribes. The marks scribes left behind in manuscripts, from corrections and catchwords to complaints in the margins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c6e68fbd-10e8-4ff3-adf0-de7e9d71d77f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcM-kwW1HKY
- **2022-02-08**, Woodblock publishing in China's first age of print. A British Library Panizzi Lecture on Chinese printed book production centuries before Gutenberg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/28bab6d7-ac08-47ae-8f97-8039731fb8ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nynr7aw1Qvk
- **2022-02-10**, Mosul's bookshops come back. AFP on booksellers and libraries reopening in Mosul five years after the defeat of the Islamic State group, in a city once known for its archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3bfdc03e-00fd-49f2-b8d3-c153dd8e1186) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6xAk83Tlw
- **2022-02-11**, Bindings of the medieval manuscript book. Book historian Irene O'Daly explains how medieval bindings were constructed and what survives of them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a8135ccc-1dcb-43ed-a130-c7f8a40361fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L5Vs0aZYck
- **2022-02-15**, What makes a typeface legible? Ask science. A Letterform Archive panel bringing reading science to bear on type design claims. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ef4dde1a-7f91-4b70-8221-531243bb18bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkEqYp9jyA
- **2022-02-20**, Aldus Manutius. Ross King on the Venetian printer who invented the portable octavo and commissioned the first italic type. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a195ffb0-7130-41f1-9c97-aaedf426a1e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZ_ZmWmvtw
- **2022-02-24**, Did a book spark the Civil War?. The American Battlefield Trust examines the claim about Uncle Tom's Cabin's political effect and what the evidence supports. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/973167f5-ee99-4c7e-a4e7-02058438cf28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ssCxvUOQs
- **2022-02-24**, Reading the Maya, Mixtec and Aztec codices. A lecture on the Mesoamerican screenfold book, made from deer hide or bark paper, and what its pictorial writing records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/389f4754-7f04-4618-880c-53b38661ced3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4r4W5nBbKI
- **2022-03-05**, Making a medieval book by hand: paring and covering. Four Keys Book Arts pares leather and covers the wooden boards of a medieval-style binding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c0cb88a5-ef31-455f-afe2-a8b24fbf5512) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9j9MqyoyYA
- **2022-03-10**, A nationwide effort to ban books. PBS NewsHour reports on the growth of organised book challenges in American schools and libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/78f6c84b-a3ac-4519-bc5f-2ec7d2379bdc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_zHAyhD4I
- **2022-03-12**, An introduction to the Matenadaran. A survey of Yerevan's Matenadaran, the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts, and what its collections contain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d4051981-6c12-4447-a1cc-fe3fd1ffcae4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRYeCejAgrE
- **2022-03-14**, Ulysses: the first hundred years. An academic panel marking the centenary of the novel's 1922 publication and its long afterlife. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ad4fcbe-132e-4623-8dfe-3e1f8b7db503) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMk8ax98SNw
- **2022-03-17**, Resistance and literature in Myanmar. A Yale panel on writers who published under Burmese military censorship and what publishing costs them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/22affbfc-fc40-4ec3-95b4-48a7e3820344) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0XY02gEoGg
- **2022-03-19**, A short history of the British Library. A tour of the St Pancras site and how the national library came to exist separately from the museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2c6283a0-54e1-4512-86f1-c85fbfa950a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIf1oEKAxDA
- **2022-03-28**, The Codex Mendoza: an Aztec book made for a Spanish king. Dr Daniela Bleichmar on the codex made around 1541 by Indigenous artists at the viceroy's request, recording Mexica tribute, conquest and daily life in pictographic script with Spanish glosses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/58fb59b8-1fb9-413f-90d9-c69de64bf7a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNoe4y112uQ
- **2022-03-29**, Maintaining a 170-year-old Washington hand press. Sacramento History Museum shows the routine upkeep of an iron hand press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f736ef2-3c5c-4a7c-a403-d7e259c9b91c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLnFhpuZDg
- **2022-03-31**, The Razmnama: the Mahabharata in Persian. A lecture on the illustrated 1599 Mughal manuscript translating the Mahabharata into Persian for Akbar's court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/23e4cc56-24e0-4387-bb36-a72d5a8adaaf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNTCIK8Z6Y
- **2022-04-06**, Italic type and the portable book. A talk on how the first italic typeface helped spread the small-format printed book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be8336ac-3553-4bc6-8b81-9a0805a0a91e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Ibk0iH6Uc
- **2022-04-06**, The push to purge books from schools. PBS NewsHour examines a school-district removal campaign and the cultural divisions behind it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f8101a94-1975-474b-8f71-4b12af37134f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvSG0ztpkwA
- **2022-04-13**, Illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. Morgan Library curators trace Hebrew illumination from Ashkenaz through to collections in America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d43b5198-7c4b-4f92-8eaf-f9795f939b6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tVQ1wMFbIM
- **2022-04-28**, 550 years of printing in Spain - AP Archive. An AP report marking the anniversary of the first books printed in Spain. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d31cf01-4408-4d24-91f6-40992cbfd517) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iye2FVdH7o
- **2022-04-30**, 550 years of printing in Spain. AP Archive report marking the anniversary of the first books printed on the Iberian peninsula. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a712107-6958-4250-a1ed-1b338f3e2555) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7Bpe2W2cA
- **2022-05-04**, Read a book, get out of jail. FRANCE 24 on Bolivia's Books Behind Bars scheme, which lets prisoners reduce their sentences by reading and reporting on books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/df3e2fb5-69b0-420b-ab60-368fdda5b534) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkM_EaTwNo
- **2022-05-10**, A Chinese Buddhist text printed before Gutenberg. Indiana University's Lilly Library shows a woodblock-printed Abhidharma text, an example of Chinese printing centuries ahead of movable type in Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1740ad5e-362b-4c40-896c-b2809764ac27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0HO2Jrlvw
- **2022-05-11**, Linotype: the film. Feature documentary on the machine Edison called the eighth wonder of the world, and the men who ran it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/24c77ca2-e21b-4368-9eb0-2f2fac1689f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDM-EbDCiQg
- **2022-05-16**, Making iron gall ink. The Alchemical Arts makes traditional black ink from oak galls, iron salts and gum arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/94b0ff9c-e533-40a9-98f3-8d8f8c548ee7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbtWvCuuWzY
- **2022-06-06**, An unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale. Reuters reports on a fireproof copy of Atwood's novel auctioned as a protest against book banning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9a46dda-f071-4986-bf44-782d107b76d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cClAMz_ySCw
- **2022-06-09**, Artist books and stories from the Library of Congress. A museum talk by a Library of Congress rare book curator on artists' books and collection stories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/48b0ef38-0952-4ba9-a840-3551963d218c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KsND7A3i88
- **2022-06-09**, Ultramarine and the purification of lapis lazuli. Spike Bucklow lectures on why ultramarine cost as much as gold and how the pigment was extracted from lapis by kneading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/53153a6a-1c65-4231-9007-8d0766fe2513) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evib2Zmxz_k
- **2022-06-14**, The UNESCO Jikji Memory of the World Prize. UNESCO's prize named for the Jikji, the oldest surviving book printed with metal movable type. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6d0298e5-8b6b-4463-a665-c0ed7f084a9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIPJFCOMPE
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 012. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/00c4f526-ba36-4e0d-b022-5546633dbd2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_012.jpg
- **2022**, 1945 Linotype Model 31, Tallahassee Automobile Museum. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/044ba9f9-a5fc-4b50-bbb6-050e02e1cd35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945_Linotype_Model_31,_Tallahassee_Automobile_Museum.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 011. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/05c833c3-780f-4d4b-ab2d-9de5b85ebea5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_011.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 003. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0f67d94d-02cd-451c-a6bb-2768229a3988) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_003.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 004. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/14e5aff2-48aa-4de2-8a82-6a9479810373) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_004.jpg
- **2022**, Linotype clutch. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3683b1d8-4c9b-4b88-8964-1f10d1b7f8ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_clutch.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 010. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/445f9c4e-f974-4280-89c9-af6cffb119a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_010.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 008. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/644852e7-b7a3-4a87-89bf-6445751e13e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_008.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 009. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/72a4d216-f5d1-442d-921e-cc582713fc9d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_009.jpg
- **2022**, Zilvertype font. Punches and matrices, the steel punch is cut by hand, struck into copper to make a matrix, and the matrix casts the type. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8fd22660-5daf-46ec-88ac-3d64914f8012) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zilvertype_font.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 005. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4bf8f05-a2e9-4020-9f60-20458b027f85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_005.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 007. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b3bd443b-168e-4371-a79c-42ca74982539) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_007.jpg
- **2022**, Bibliothèque Nationale du Congo Brazza. A national library building. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bef757d0-d9ff-4934-aeb1-3862b3a97bc9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioth%C3%A8que_Nationale_du_Congo_Brazza.jpg
- **2022**, Druckerei J.J. Augustin, Glückstadt, Monotype-Taster 1964, mit äthiopischer Schrift 03. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c22d8ff7-2099-452d-a062-a28e77ce6711) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Druckerei_J.J._Augustin,_Gl%C3%BCckstadt,_Monotype-Taster_1964,_mit_%C3%A4thiopischer_Schrift_03.jpg
- **2022**, Druckerei J.J. Augustin, Glückstadt, Monotype-Taster 1964, mit äthiopischer Schrift 04. The Monotype system, a keyboard punched a paper ribbon that drove a separate caster producing individual sorts. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d7c130c2-8ef3-4b5a-8bab-84878dcc79ae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Druckerei_J.J._Augustin,_Gl%C3%BCckstadt,_Monotype-Taster_1964,_mit_%C3%A4thiopischer_Schrift_04.jpg
- **2022**, Print Frog® Glass Baren Models. Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/edd218b3-bdea-46bc-8c99-fd7dd24a4835) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print_Frog%C2%AE_Glass_Baren_Models.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 002. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f1d28da4-5039-4de5-b880-9ab21a8c2109) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_002.jpg
- **2022**, 2022-09-16 GLAM on Tour Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Martin Rulsch) 001. Book and manuscript conservation work, a modern photograph of conservators treating damaged bindings and leaves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f6d05b22-f57c-42e7-a6b1-614b2fd8431f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-09-16_GLAM_on_Tour_Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_(Martin_Rulsch)_001.jpg
- **2022-06-21**, Dyslexia, rhythm and the developing brain. Usha Goswami's lecture on the phonological and rhythmic basis of reading difficulty, and what it implies for how children are taught. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c656b48e-90fe-4c5c-b0d9-ac09ad3db0a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM93KIEb6Q4
- **2022-06-25**, The astonishing Book of Kells. Smarthistory conversation on the c. 800 gospel book, its 340 vellum folios and its dizzying ornament. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8fb0db27-fccb-4ffb-93ac-7ff334fa4699) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxIE-SwxQo
- **2022-06-27**, Rebuilding Ireland's destroyed Record Treasury. The Virtual Record Treasury reconstructs in 3D the Public Record Office of Ireland and the archives destroyed in the 1922 Four Courts fire, gathering surviving copies from collections worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d956115-99b8-48a3-9836-2af7e2b641d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudQmXvJULI
- **2022-06-29**, Fifty spectacular illuminated manuscripts. A British Library curator tour of gold-illuminated manuscripts from collections around the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d9705f45-ce4f-4b70-b75b-12e60cbb1b56) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlVZE76f9bA
- **2022-07-07**, Building J. Pierpont Morgan's library. The Morgan Library traces how the financier assembled his collection and built a room to hold it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/01934a4f-b65f-4e00-ae96-bfc87e119cad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-8L_eVkVY
- **2022-07-09**, Why the world's oldest printed book is in London. Broadcast report on the Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 and taken from Dunhuang by Aurel Stein in 1907, now held at the British Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e4f954d8-0798-4ea3-aafb-1f6c47cb34dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZtkVO5fnc
- **2022-07-13**, The origin of movable metal type: Gutenberg, inventor or innovator?. Korean documentary examining Gutenberg's claim to priority against the Korean metal-type tradition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e129b47b-8a87-40ec-ae19-fdc2ca4298b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDbs66AdfI
- **2022-07-13**, Domesday Book: England surveyed in a single year. The National Archives on the 1086 survey ordered by William the Conqueror, covering more than 13,000 places, written in abbreviated Latin, and used as a legal reference for centuries afterwards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af789584-ce88-4670-907e-9eb25080d1cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72-w8ZhNV8I
- **2022-07-14**, The origin of movable metal type: the type road. Second part of the Korean documentary, tracing how metal type technology may have travelled west. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cf46b770-e372-4ef3-b5b6-5e308226ca0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB8lfUVh78M
- **2022-07-28**, The Tale of Peter Rabbit before it was a book. The Morgan Library shows Beatrix Potter's original illustrated letter, which she later self-published as a book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cc74d15c-8368-44dd-88dd-84e95dd7469f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rArJolTOCkc
- **2022-08-08**, Facsimile of the book of kells-Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Facsimile of the book of kells at Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Medieval illuminated manuscript Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/057cb061-f6ff-4253-b034-172ea077068e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facsimile_of_the_book_of_kells-Interior_of_the_Old_Library,_Trinity_College,_Dublin.jpg
- **2022-08-17**, Medieval manuscript fragments. Lisa Fagin Davis on the scattered leaves of broken-up medieval books and how scholars reunite them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af5f5282-31df-4331-9ff8-251801878353) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFULIy-IgDk
- **2022-08-19**, The economics of book publishing. An economics podcast examines how publishing houses actually make money, including advances, returns and the role of bestsellers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a77c8a93-9136-4b0d-9a06-f57e5a6b3553) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWO9Ll6IldM
- **2022-08-22**, Scrutiny over the $2.2 billion publishing merger. A news report on the Justice Department's antitrust challenge to the proposed Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/15fedd09-3e2d-45dd-b045-df5f6c1edd48) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHFZ1R1W-O0
- **2022-08-23**, Printing on a Chandler and Price platen press. Sacramento History Museum prints school-programme handouts on its 10x15 jobbing press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eb2fdf2b-253c-4719-bbc8-4642c882d89b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-JypL8UxGU
- **2022-08-24**, What the merger trial revealed about how publishers pay authors. Author Brandon Sanderson walks through testimony from the antitrust trial, including evidence on advances and how few titles sell well. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/447fa9d4-8fb5-4670-b94b-8ca178650a3d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XN6bIHuvE
- **2022-08-25**, Manuscript and rare book treasures in Canberra. National Library of Australia shows early manuscripts and rare printed books from its collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4235a21a-2e72-4cfc-b3ea-532a49af80c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JVkZuGFSCA
- **2022-08-29**, Hometown history: Carnegie libraries. A local library service on Carnegie's 2,509 buildings and what they meant to their towns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7b5cd128-edf9-4465-8dfb-3ddaed2ff780) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_NafAXUiA
- **2022-08-31**, The materiality of Tibetan Buddhist books. A Bibliographical Society panel on Tibetan books as physical objects of power, not just carriers of text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5339dc99-2996-41b0-811e-195b65b4fa8b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQmfvO-pHM
- **2022-09-07**, Techniques for working with gold. Patricia Lovett demonstrates gesso, gold leaf and burnishing for the British Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/56a64ff5-6046-4ee4-9eb8-3f8830439215) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBxwT2JpnZE
- **2022-09-07**, What is lost when books are banned. A Washington Post report examining recent removals and the arguments used to justify them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6e9f82b9-b05d-4241-9fb7-5666d74898e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_lUswcHCnI
- **2022-09-11**, A Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscript from 1750. Museum curators handle a palm-leaf book from Sri Lanka: text incised with a stylus, ink rubbed in, leaves strung between wooden boards, the standard book form across South and Southeast Asia before paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b05677f8-34ac-4eb7-bdb6-ba22554bbb85) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQtBEaLg2n4
- **2022-09-13**, The world's largest surviving chained library. A visit to Hereford Cathedral's chained library and Mappa Mundi. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/43d3763b-f952-460b-8e2d-47dd595cd268) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_eJAW7IdGo
- **2022-09-20**, Dragon scale binding revived. A Chinese craftsman revives longlin zhuang, the thousand-year-old overlapping-page binding that predates the stitched book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0f32ebd0-9e40-4a20-b267-4eb69b9084c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uih0x7-pM3c
- **2022-09-21**, Data preservation in Mine 3, Svalbard. The Arctic World Archive's own film from inside the permafrost facility. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/59c3cfba-f50c-42f8-bfcf-fb975957ddc3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uJfH8yTvEU
- **2022-09-26**, The history of the talking book. Library of Congress symposium on the origins of the talking book, records cut for blind readers in the 1930s, and its line of descent to the modern audiobook. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/75dbb7e6-71e4-4f7b-903e-b627ede651f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeE-zKoLFc
- **2022-09-26**, Making books talk. Symposium session on how recorded books are actually produced, from narration and direction to the formats they are distributed on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9fc939fe-4b54-4920-8873-19321b848cac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1dpFn2mFOQ
- **2022-10-06**, PEN America on book bans and censorship. A public television programme interviewing PEN America about its tracking of book removals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/041f088f-43a6-408d-95a5-783bdcca3898) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR71QIZbFII
- **2022-10-07**, A library built for 400 years. RIBA on the New Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, designed to replace a library given by Samuel Pepys three centuries earlier and to last four more. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/30c8f2c9-33e8-49ee-8db6-2cbcdd18a708) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbXv5PaKzk
- **2022-10-07**, Afghan women turn to books. Associated Press from a women's library in Kabul, opened as a space to read under Taliban restrictions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f0e5ced8-fde5-42df-b863-77d88cd2a7e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdO55FS-LY
- **2022-10-12**, Fake news in the eighteenth century. A British Library curator presents printed misinformation from the eighteenth century and how authorities responded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f5d52fa0-2bcd-4fe8-9dec-82c071b082e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dbV2YuAMpQ
- **2022-10-13**, Silk Road papermaking revived in Uzbekistan. An AP report on the revival at Konigil of the Samarkand papermaking process that carried paper westward from China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/77e2e742-6119-46a8-8128-d7f52b51785b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ745uKlFNI
- **2022-10-20**, The BnF-Richelieu restoration, 2016-2022. Detailed French conference on the heritage works at the BnF's Richelieu site, including how collections were moved and stored during the project. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/85de297b-aeef-4156-8a97-5acafb63cfb6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsX7NI7PEs
- **2022-10-21**, Making amate bark paper. The Getty shows how Maya scribes made amate paper from fig bark, and how the craft continues in Mexico today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9f6db442-4342-4893-878e-ae2dca921712) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF8eZTo9WB4
- **2022-10-26**, A medieval book from start to finish. Four Keys Book Arts condenses sixty hours of binding work into one continuous walkthrough. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3c0c34f1-9590-47fd-ae17-986d15991bb6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ50XdqfG00
- **2022-11-07**, A library drops Dewey. Local news on Deschutes County Library abandoning the Dewey Decimal system for a bookshop-style scheme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dafd5f61-e27a-4954-9e65-f3e9614a951c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBHS9UDKM0M
- **2022-11-11**, The Lindisfarne Gospels - British Library. A British Library curator presents the eighth-century illuminated manuscript and the cultures that shaped it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2c90be91-fec2-46a1-8ee8-c4eaa886f99c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9RJSIUNhY
- **2022-11-22**, Collecting Aotearoa's published heritage. National Library of New Zealand on building its collection through legal deposit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8848acd7-ed2e-423c-8c00-d4e32efed733) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34alp09iYPk
- **2022-11-22**, Mark Dimunation on the Library of Congress rare book division. C-SPAN's Booknotes+ interviews the head of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division about the collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b5b9e526-6eb2-465c-bd4e-145f6d714b21) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNgS3sNhJFY
- **2022-11-29**, Restoring a 17th-century Persian book. A conservator repairs a 17th-century Persian manuscript using traditional materials and techniques. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/98e7915d-2267-44a3-b39f-460937d4bc0e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx4QqUOv1EQ
- **2022-12-01**, A first edition of On the Origin of Species. A rare-book dealer examines an 1859 first edition of Darwin's book and its print run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d7f8571-62b5-49bd-9303-32b4e0a876a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwCWyXJMl4c
- **2022-12-04**, The building art of the National Library of Australia. Detailed look at the Canberra library building on Lake Burley Griffin, its marble, stained glass and tapestries as much as its collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/74cbabb5-0cdf-42c4-9a20-d19681047ddd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C10CIQluIdk
- **2022-12-11**, How a Gutenberg press actually works. A working demonstration of the screw press: inking the forme, laying the sheet, pulling the bar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/409d75ab-0dbe-441f-aa86-a3e15e12cc53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7OK3FOM5gU
- **2022-12-22**, Admont Abbey library becomes internet famous. AFP on the Benedictine abbey library in Styria, the largest monastic library room in the world, and what social-media attention has done to a Baroque hall built for monks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f4def3d7-3a9c-4b47-b961-d22debd3b453) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VHahbvKJk
- **2022-12-24**, The chained library at Hereford Cathedral. A visit to Hereford's surviving chained library and the Mappa Mundi housed alongside it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9c43c8f-8fb0-4b36-b88e-e1de4a180147) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbcEGlf-9g
### 2023
- **2023-01-06**, In search of Indo-Islamic papermaking. A Met lecture on the papermaking traditions of the Islamic world and South Asia, and fieldwork tracing surviving practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bcff1d13-e4ec-4f62-af4a-ccef437d9b1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDUX4bhs0CA
- **2023-01-13**, Digitising Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscripts. The British Library images four Sinhalese palm-leaf manuscripts from the Hugh Nevill collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/94de6870-4490-4dfd-85e8-d87cc9ebe09f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIpsu3p0JCE
- **2023-01-19**, Chinese collections at the Bodleian. Chinese books have been in the Bodleian since 1604; curators introduce the collection and its earliest acquisitions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d2d065d-f4b8-4242-9b14-701a0853978f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgN1zHjnGM
- **2023-02-06**, Carrying a library over the hills in Ghana. Students carry boxes of donated books up to their school to establish its first library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/72c97486-161a-4276-9103-dbc2e8926962) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gBlND7UjFw
- **2023-02-09**, The power of deep reading. Maryanne Wolf on how the reading brain is built rather than inherited, and on what sustained, deep reading requires that skimming does not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4a77f529-2d11-44c2-976e-8cde1ec133e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVv5HLv4js
- **2023-02-21**, Conserving the Lotus Sutra. British Library conservators report on a five-year project on the Lotus Sutra manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f20ec0d7-4402-4e58-98b1-ef8bc21d6984) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYF6kK9SwJ8
- **2023-02-21**, Conserving the Lotus Sutra manuscripts. British Library conservators present case studies from five years of treating Chinese Buddhist scroll manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/785082d7-f91b-4577-8e43-10c95039c017) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPeW7vkfzg
- **2023-02-21**, Digitising the Lotus Sutra manuscripts. A British Library conference paper on the project to image and catalogue Lotus Sutra manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a433889d-85a3-4eac-969d-96dfdfbc4097) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C6fFjoTso4
- **2023-02-22**, Roald Dahl's books rewritten. France 24 reports on the publisher's revisions to Dahl's children's books and the reaction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d5918b7f-9855-496d-bcbd-1c2a50a3421a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tP5v79WIM
- **2023-03-01**, What speed readers will not tell you. A researcher reviews the evidence on speed reading and the trade-off between rate and comprehension. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8e63eb87-8f8b-48f6-b8e0-4bac144275b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2aZ3THL8BQ
- **2023-03-02**, Louisiana librarians and activists over book removals. PBS NewsHour reports from Louisiana on the confrontation between librarians and campaigners seeking removals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d3b672b-d797-4306-9724-929edd52eb5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnKXeLzdqw
- **2023-03-17**, The 92-year-old who saved Turkish parchment. Business Insider profiles the craftsman who kept parchment-making alive in western Turkey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/28028c2c-51c7-4fb8-abcd-f85f11be5323) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAaO2b9Mguw
- **2023-03-23**, The untold story of Chinese woodblock prints. CGTN on the long history of woodblock printing in China. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/41f50c0e-3dff-4ca1-bf4f-60c4dece04a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n758SfbLUR0
- **2023-03-23**, What is papyrus, and how is it made?. The Fitzwilliam Museum shows ancient Egyptian papyrus and demonstrates how the sheets were built up from strips of reed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c0e33f35-e232-4260-874b-81d8e782ef6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swWCI7Qn5oU
- **2023-03-24**, Rebuilding the Iraq National Library. CGTN interview with Saad Eskander, who returned to Baghdad in 2003 to salvage the national library and archives after the looting and fires. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/015edea0-4c4e-4860-9d9f-ecb1a3699c0e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqwYml7_y_8
- **2023-03-29**, Hachette v. Internet Archive, point by point. Detailed walkthrough of the publishers' lawsuit over controlled digital lending and what the 2023 decision means for libraries lending digitised books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2c66feb5-427b-4f3a-b84c-517e9880c51a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMZbC2I2s0
- **2023-04-01**, The Hamburg-Eimsbüttel book-burning memorial. Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an die Bücherverbrennung vom 15. Mai 1933, gestaltet nach dem Entwurf des Künstlers Wolfgang Finck (1945-2011), errichtet 1895 in der Grünanlage am Isebekkanal Ecke Heymannstraße / Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4c1c7deb-5b52-4382-94d4-1c303d0af1e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahnmal_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_Hamburg-Eimsb%C3%BCttel_(2).jpg
- **2023-04-01**, The Hamburg-Eimsbüttel book-burning memorial, a second view. Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an die Bücherverbrennung vom 15. Mai 1933, gestaltet nach dem Entwurf des Künstlers Wolfgang Finck (1945-2011), errichtet 1895 in der Grünanlage am Isebekkanal Ecke Heymannstraße / Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d201da12-1f00-41ff-8e9b-38317e9210fd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahnmal_B%C3%BCcherverbrennung_Hamburg-Eimsb%C3%BCttel_(1).jpg
- **2023-04-03**, A free digital library in court. ABC7 on the legal battle between publishers and the Internet Archive's Open Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/329857cb-a05f-4143-8d49-c6004e72fffa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P40h4vvcTRI
- **2023-04-19**, Unboxing Shakespeare's First Folio. V&A curators unwrap and examine a copy of the 1623 Folio, discussing its binding and printing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/541b4b0f-c6e1-4052-af15-f9553e34b672) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Ytsmn4gv4
- **2023-04-21**, Of Kings and Paintings: Persian art history. A documentary on Iranian painting traditions, including the illustrated manuscript and its Qajar-era transformations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f1981d94-d3b7-4370-a3f0-f59eb29b3251) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lab9-TDqqc
- **2023-04-23**, The fight over banning books. CBS Sunday Morning covers a school-board dispute, interviewing parents and librarians on both sides. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bc49992d-4ded-4515-9487-4c1cc94e3045) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsEJ29xV-A
- **2023-04-24**, The most challenged library books of the year. PBS NewsHour reviews the American Library Association's annual list of titles people tried to remove. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f0a66c66-a106-4617-ace3-40a31b6d74eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syrgYHV9VW0
- **2023-04-27**, Emptying the Long Room. Trinity College Dublin timelapse of the Old Library decant: by the end of April 2023 six kilometres of books had been removed from the Long Room for the conservation project. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1a65f60-6013-48c5-8010-7b1059435cc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMIIBm9nDU
- **2023-04-28**, Judy Blume on the current wave of book bans. The author, whose books were challenged in the 1980s, responds to renewed removal campaigns. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1c3f96a2-59e6-4094-9245-1352cde464b4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51jT_qam_I
- **2023-05-01**, Anne Frank: her world and her diary. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents the diary and the circumstances in which it was written and preserved. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f27b1bbe-bbc7-42a9-aff7-ce7da60d155b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5g1J6MNQWo
- **2023-05-02**, How old books were made. A hands-on look inside a bindery at the structures and tools behind hand-made books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/73962dd7-32d0-4513-b7fc-120f01dfae2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uauXBgeImFc
- **2023-05-07**, How the Nazis burned books and then people. A DW documentary investigating why German universities embraced the 1933 burnings and which authors were blacklisted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f870350-c95e-4193-b1e5-05fbedb9faeb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebXGAOCxtaI
- **2023-05-11**, Conserving and remounting Chinese paintings. The British Museum's Chinese paintings conservation team disassemble, treat and remount scroll paintings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/140cac1f-8e63-4700-aff7-b4e57e581416) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQJlKxm5TU
- **2023-05-17**, Penguin Random House and PEN America sue over Florida removals. A local news report on litigation brought by a publisher and a free-expression group against a school district. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b7472b28-2568-49d0-8831-0f89c36ad3af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-IDHxhJ4Y
- **2023-05-17**, Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest book of the Americas. A close reading of the roughly 900-year-old Maya screenfold that tracks the movements of Venus, one of only four surviving Maya books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/40ceec1b-d86e-4fb5-87de-b8f7041acc61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOY_hMko8w
- **2023-05-19**, Conservation at the British Library. A tour of the studio where conservators care for manuscripts, maps and bindings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a8908318-ff56-4d12-993f-07e004f1679c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpD4msRoNk
- **2023-05-24**, Authenticating the oldest book of the Americas. The Getty's Andrew Turner recounts the decades-long controversy over the Maya codex once called the Grolier, and how it was finally authenticated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/94c12aa1-2f10-4089-940c-bf5b6af1be46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp9JC9LFPJ8
- **2023-05-25**, Book banning in Utah. PBS Utah examines removals in the state, hearing from librarians, parents and legislators. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/75019171-8e88-48e9-8cba-14b9f05f160f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IVYh0qNBw
- **2023-05-30**, Ethiopians recreate ancient manuscripts. A news report on priests and lay scribes replicating centuries-old Ethiopian religious manuscripts to keep the tradition alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b0dbdeb8-9b2a-4ad2-9d9a-afb0f8d0e1a5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcDtNXsfc90
- **2023-06-08**, Why the codex replaced the scroll. Irish Dominicans on the shift from roll to folded, stitched pages, and what that format made possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/233b7917-2900-4c36-8a41-6e9b933ecbc3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50XeVlcNJ84
- **2023**, Filzpantoffeln Stiftsbibliothek St.Gallen. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/12918c73-9bcf-4a57-94ea-72ce8b9f3b43) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filzpantoffeln_Stiftsbibliothek_St.Gallen.jpg
- **2023**, Biblioteca Nacional de España en abril de 2023 04. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1aa51476-d633-44cf-bde4-26c7c94b7eba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Nacional_de_Espa%C3%B1a_en_abril_de_2023_04.jpg
- **2023**, Buchhandlung Oberweißbach. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3e7a2bc5-1334-41bd-bfbf-92b182d8b800) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buchhandlung_Oberwei%C3%9Fbach.jpg
- **2023**, Biblioteca Nacional de España en abril de 2023 06. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/831d9de7-acb4-4a2e-8602-142ff101fc01) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biblioteca_Nacional_de_Espa%C3%B1a_en_abril_de_2023_06.jpg
- **2023**, Jikji. The Jikji, printed in Korea in 1377 with movable metal type, 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e1bf52f5-4951-4d49-a905-2a4cc5add58a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jikji.jpg
- **2023**, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen - Gewölbekeller-Codex-Modell-09721. Ein Codex besteht aus Papyrus-, Pergament, oder Papierblättern zwischen zwei Holz deckeln. Diese werden gefaltet und zu Lagen zusammengestellt. Dann liniert und beschrieben. Die Lagen werden auf Kordeln, oder Leder bünde geheftet, die in die Holzdeckel verankert werden. Zu dieser Heftung zählen auch die Fitzb Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca9ea246-9665-42f7-b8d4-e3cf9297b79f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftsbibliothek_St._Gallen_-_Gew%C3%B6lbekeller-Codex-Modell-09721.jpg
- **2023-06-16**, A circuitous history of print. A Yale art gallery programme on the history of printed images and texts across cultures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/172cff7c-8836-4765-9ce4-cd8bbb47d524) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73iBaIu2RTg
- **2023-06-23**, Deathless fragments. Curator Eric J. Johnson tours an Ohio State exhibition of medieval manuscript fragments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dfaf4146-49e1-407f-ae03-250e0a0d4d74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJibGEYxqYQ
- **2023-07-05**, Bringing books back to life. Inside the British Library conservation studio, where a damaged book is treated like a patient. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/994b25d8-d425-4632-bec5-9b57161796c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PNExKUpQwA
- **2023-07-07**, Why the Nazis burned books. German-language DW documentary on the 1933 book burnings, the authors targeted, and what happened to their work and their lives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/81236445-222d-42a8-8262-fa16ea778d7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7ho2Ml3E8
- **2023-07-12**, The Library of Congress card catalog. The Library of Congress on the card catalog's purpose, its legacy and why it was retired. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3eeea229-0627-45a0-a49c-ecbfb2cc7043) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn47S-bsrsA
- **2023-07-12**, Rewriting Kenya's colonial libraries. Al Jazeera documentary on Book Bunk, restoring Nairobi's oldest public libraries, built for colonial readers, and rebuilding their collections for the city that uses them now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/327ad345-45d2-400e-b3c6-dc7fe2520e57) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w5-q-A24Gk
- **2023-07-19**, Framing a page from Leonardo's notebook. British Library conservators prepare a c. 1500 Leonardo da Vinci notebook page for display. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/69924c40-0c15-4924-96be-dd21eb4f7de3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yp-seh5JZs
- **2023-07-21**, Cleaning a five-hundred-year-old embroidered book. A British Library conservator works on a tiny embroidered binding in the conservation studio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3194bbb6-f9d1-4d33-bb03-6213250aa442) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yY1OWjT4zA
- **2023-07-26**, Printing a cut on a Gordon jobbing press. Sacramento History Museum runs a decorative cut through its Chandler and Price press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1d48edc2-8241-4157-900c-2c3816749e1b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__0YnquNYtQ
- **2023-07-27**, Have the libraries of Timbuktu been lost?. A Gresham College segment on what actually happened to the manuscript collections of Timbuktu. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b49f1e9f-88db-444f-ba6a-f513b483e0d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39hhQyclb8
- **2023-08-14**, What exactly was the Book of the Dead?. Egyptologist Dr Ilona Regulski explains that the Book of the Dead was never a fixed book but a menu of around 200 spells, selected and copied per customer, on rolls that could run tens of metres. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9d37c21b-2201-4d77-b89e-4e73bab2a1a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh3H0JXEro
- **2023-08-19**, Hanji: the Korean paper that lasts a thousand years. A report on hand-made Korean hanji from paper-mulberry fibre, and why the number of workshops keeps falling. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/40f4f3d8-97ac-44d3-b98d-7eaf7c3a551b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dy4nMR0X8
- **2023-08-24**, Twenty years to read the unreadable. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky on the long effort to read the Herculaneum scrolls without opening them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/41dde567-9555-478e-a18c-3dde09a4381f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_L1oN8y7Bs
- **2023-08-25**, Copyright for all. Library of Congress on how copyright works for anyone who writes, records or photographs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e2f4c372-0c87-46af-9295-a6f5a108b229) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJix9Thb4Xc
- **2023-08-25**, NLS: an accessible library. The Library of Congress on the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, which with around 100 affiliated libraries provides braille and audio books free by post across the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b5b2127e-3e4c-4e26-a85e-8877d362c701) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj89dhfzCIs
- **2023-08-30**, Murasaki Shikibu and the writing of The Tale of Genji. History podcast episode on the Heian court lady-in-waiting who wrote The Tale of Genji around 1010, a 54-chapter work often called the world's first novel. Covers who she was, how the text circulated in manuscript, and why no autograph copy survives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a262785-4e53-4a2f-86ef-af950490e48c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLGS6mWCk2E
- **2023-08-31**, What legal deposit is and what it collects. Singapore's National Library explains its statutory duty to collect the nation's published output. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5ded0c0a-3483-402d-990f-3c82ba418339) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdQVX_zch4
- **2023-09-05**, How a book is made today. Book Manufacturers' Institute walks through modern print methods and binding lines. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0b35f14a-e378-40dd-9ca8-a96c78863d00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YDL7cwh1o
- **2023-09-11**, The library that holds every book ever published. A visit to a legal-deposit library and the practical problem of storing a copy of everything printed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2756b722-89a2-448c-8aff-0d1ad607917a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVuIU6UUiM
- **2023-09-12**, Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie libraries. A talk connecting Carnegie's steel fortune to the 2,509 free public libraries he funded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3351205c-6ad8-4ef4-b5ad-7eefccdfc9ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzA2KiwEoC0
- **2023-09-21**, Authors sue OpenAI over books used in training. A report on the Authors Guild suit brought by novelists alleging their books were used without permission to train language models. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5c111009-5d6e-4477-b32a-6679063e14b1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQgF6TAYY
- **2023-09-25**, A Monotype operator explains his machine. Former Monotype operator Claude Clotier walks through the keyboard and caster he worked on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a74a818e-20eb-46e3-b0aa-3b352b7331dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_tQdMIASI
- **2023-10-03**, Restoring the world's most precious books. A report from inside a manuscript conservation lab on stabilising parchment and paper that is actively deteriorating. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f0230e05-6f27-49f0-831c-bdfa98ebfe8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sksuP0opgA
- **2023-10-04**, The Queen of France's prayer book. The Morgan Library examines a royal devotional manuscript and the questions about its making. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/01cc6f5b-cd78-4b34-8216-fbc11aed9186) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WXZksB62hQ
- **2023-10-07**, Kurotani washi, used to restore the Louvre's works. A Kyoto workshop makes an exceptionally strong washi that conservators worldwide use for repairs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/28df8790-7723-44b6-9bba-52d36c4d496d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZeBwS1OUQY
- **2023-10-14**, The Arm Letterpress Counter. A photo of a counter in The Arm, a letterpress shop in Brooklyn, New York. Prints are placed in wooden boxes. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/88a52a19-3750-4efa-aaf9-42c8517a986c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Arm_Letterpress_Counter.jpg
- **2023-10-19**, Belle da Costa Greene, the Morgan's librarian. The Morgan Library tells the story of the librarian who built and ran its collection for decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/34ad5ad0-4599-464b-acdc-db8ba984d758) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fin67OHO068
- **2023-10-20**, Building a community library in Uganda. African Library Project film on a library established at a Jinja community organisation, and how the books arrive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/72cf7256-901b-4d9e-8b3e-5dd6512a2f6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJT6vdb5PBk
- **2023-10-22**, The origin of Alice in Wonderland. A rare-book dealer explains how the story reached print from a boating trip and a handwritten gift. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a1ac1015-98ff-483e-96c9-be5a06c084ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbtWAKjFWVw
- **2023-10-23**, Traditional movable-type printing, step by step. A Chinese craftsman demonstrates composing, inking and pulling an impression from movable type. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f5ab00a-25df-4768-8f02-136933d9d807) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxIhK_uTE0
- **2023-10-24**, A day with a bookmobile librarian. Georgia Public Library Service follows a bookmobile route serving people with no transport to a library building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e7b5b45e-da15-4758-b1d0-3898a5d573ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl9Yfr8sObY
- **2023-10-26**, What is a codex?. Getty short defining the codex, prompted by the digital edition of the twelve-book Florentine Codex. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7661d878-5c50-4afa-9bb2-38b02d8c8d1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWxXpFhbGMk
- **2023-10-26**, Adult education in Mozambique. UNESCO on supporting adult literacy and access to education in Mozambique since 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b887bd56-c667-48fa-8f8c-e4702967c7c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFPm76ydQJ8
- **2023-10-29**, Serialisation and the Victorians. A discussion of how Victorian novels were published in instalments and how that shaped their writing and sale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d1e01348-1b47-49d4-b1e7-963984deabb9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQpQQJ1OQ8
- **2023-11-10**, The Baghdad House of Wisdom. Overly Sarcastic Productions on the Abbasid translation movement that carried Greek learning into Arabic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7daa6b46-67f1-4508-b697-04ad23b806ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlpGelZItY
- **2023-11-23**, The Booksellers. A documentary on the antiquarian book trade in New York, following dealers, auctions and collectors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8f168003-43a6-4b1d-8909-378b04755cc9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQNtxhTBjU
- **2023-11-24**, William Caxton, England's first printer. Reading the Past on Caxton, who set up his press at Westminster in 1476. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8c2156f7-0305-4e5e-9507-d6ceb9f9159b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0OfU1ZX2M
- **2023-11-30**, Arthur Houghton and the founding of Harvard's rare book library. A Library of Congress lecture on the collector behind Harvard's Houghton Library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5d91b322-de2b-4326-9d04-ca66eaff4f5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dls9l3pOE
- **2023-11-30**, A history of the Armenian print tradition. A Library of Congress lecture on Armenian printing from its 1512 beginnings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6882b789-d278-4935-9ab6-15ec82419e72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWG0HhtP18
### 2024
- **2024-01-08**, Typesetting and printing for World Typing Day. Sacramento History Museum sets type by hand and prints the result. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d873a634-b90c-47d5-8cd3-f7b6fd5d1b00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5z5kmCmh8
- **2024-01-08**, Letterpress printing: a dying craft?. A Dutch documentary, subtitled in English, asking whether letterpress survives as a working trade or only as an art. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/252c6ac4-7760-4655-9484-77b61df00a8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBVXuYayNRE
- **2024-01-21**, Why are more books being challenged than ever?. A report on the sharp rise in formal challenges and the competing explanations for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0a8e7a3f-e6f9-44f4-8a64-20054d7dc306) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HErodnjrqxQ
- **2024-01-24**, Jefferson and the Library of Congress. Monticello on how Jefferson's private collection became the core of the national library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/28832f7b-d506-4c9a-9258-4eedba59b83e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDCQp52oo3Q
- **2024-01-24**, Fifty years of press struggle under apartheid. A documentary on newspapers and publishers that resisted apartheid-era censorship in South Africa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/45db5e12-e28b-4203-abc2-c6893cbc21c7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rykhOdyu7S8
- **2024-01-26**, The Ulysses obscenity case. A history programme on the 1933 case and the judge whose decision redefined literary obscenity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a6dfa750-b68d-477e-ba86-f7cbe9b33f25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6iQTs9dpWk
- **2024-01-27**, Vesalius's Fabrica, annotated by its author. Christie's on De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the anatomical atlas whose woodcuts were cut in Venice and printed in Basel, and on an annotated copy revealing Vesalius's own corrections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5058203d-3ba2-4d43-a352-501bccdd696b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOybFKvTHw
- **2024-02-02**, A virtual visit to the Cairo Genizah collection. The Bibliographical Society tours the Cambridge Genizah collection with its curators, showing fragments and how they are handled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d28def87-79b6-478b-b3ed-7ab25dc376f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJwfI-pPQ4
- **2024-02-08**, Responding to book challenges in schools. A workshop for educators on how challenges are filed and what a reconsideration process involves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fc5d0c76-0b70-4bdf-9fd3-4f8b7722708b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lif6mfJRps
- **2024-02-13**, Write yourself into history with legal deposit. National Library of Australia on how a published book enters the national collection by law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c07588f0-7501-4a33-bd45-34724273be58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9WbUOsE3w
- **2024-02-18**, A medieval leather binding with brass clasps. A binder makes a leather-covered book with blind tooling, hand sewing on double cords and metal clasps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/52a807e9-98c9-44c3-b819-cd92bb57c4ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBn76DTAGw8
- **2024-02-22**, Book bans, or are they? A free-speech debate. A Hoover Institution discussion questioning how the term book ban is applied and where curation ends and censorship begins. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0d003284-596b-48c1-8ef4-ac6641194414) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wef9x9QeEmc
- **2024-02-22**, PEN America's Kasey Meehan on book bans in Florida. A public television interview with PEN America's Freedom to Read programme director about the state's removals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eef61a31-63fa-45e6-9daf-04fede0811c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1K-3obNOE
- **2024-03-01**, The cost of the literacy crisis. National Literacy Trust on how the cost of living is depressing child literacy in the lowest-income UK households. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e42d3d9f-078b-4219-8218-821330693ce3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ4jzg93Y-g
- **2024-03-03**, Deciphering the scrolls of Herculaneum. 60 Minutes on the buried Roman library and the imaging effort to read its charred rolls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/491f2800-a7a4-4ff7-98a5-07039071f5f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDq6tAuOu8
- **2024-03-11**, The future of reading. Stanford's Rebecca Silverman on decoding, comprehension and what changes when children read on screens rather than paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c2392d3b-318f-442f-b597-5b373ae97620) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yEFJmIU3zE
- **2024-03-12**, Gutenberg Bible on display at the U.S. Library of Congress [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fcd719f0-2cad-4e4c-87e7-048df71d86aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_Bible_on_display_at_the_U.S._Library_of_Congress.jpg
- **2024-03-13**, Printing Press Single Cylinder Perfecting 1880 Mackenzie National Encyclopaedia. From National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Published by William Mackenzie, 1880. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0811f2e9-9cb0-461f-8845-ea8a3c82dddd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Printing_Press_Single_Cylinder_Perfecting_1880_Mackenzie_National_Encyclopaedia.jpg
- **2024-03-15**, How a leatherbound book is made. A publisher documents the production of a leather-bound edition, from printing through foil stamping and casing-in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3eec78b8-5cb7-434c-b59f-0ba809dedff2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTAJsMrwr7Q
- **2024-03-17**, How a palm-leaf manuscript is made. A demonstration of palm-leaf manuscript production, a technique with a documented history of over two thousand years in South and Southeast Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/59b3490a-3a47-4262-a60c-e0a57e262947) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ylu5IECJiU
- **2024-03-25**, The Alkmaar Old English fragments. Dr Thijs Porck on the discovery of more than twenty fragments of an Old English glossed psalter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/87c3de09-fa41-485c-ad37-92c9e55ea1d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEXfFb1vDw
- **2024-04-03**, 150 years of Publishers Weekly. C-SPAN marks the anniversary of the book trade's principal journal and its record of the industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08ff0630-4f68-4c93-87e3-efee2f32625e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vho6e5RfwU
- **2024-04-03**, Richard Howorth of Square Books. The owner of the Oxford, Mississippi bookstore discusses independent bookselling and its relationship with publishers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/09e1d85d-4cb6-42eb-b82d-2c08330335a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNPa7eX6oqc
- **2024-04-03**, John Sargent on running Macmillan. The former Macmillan CEO discusses his memoir Turning Pages and decades of decisions inside a major publishing house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/14145833-b12a-434f-8677-37b7af5b5bb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jeXKCUQuU
- **2024-04-03**, Inside the book supply chain: Brian O'Leary of the Book Industry Study Group. C-SPAN's About Books interviews the executive director of the Book Industry Study Group on how the trade's production and distribution systems work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f9f4dae-8b88-4cfa-960b-142323e7f1c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJxPMCjkjxc
- **2024-04-03**, Tracie Hall of the American Library Association. The then-executive director of the ALA discusses libraries as book buyers and as institutions under political pressure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/32c8ad03-bf96-432d-a68f-64914329ee95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRx0_qxVLA0
- **2024-04-03**, Reginald Dwayne Betts on prison libraries. The poet and founder of Freedom Reads discusses placing book collections inside American prisons. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/343efaea-79b9-44fe-90dd-1d71fe86502a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWV337uBVHg
- **2024-04-03**, Keith Urbahn of the literary agency Javelin. A literary agent explains how books are pitched and sold to publishers and how advances are negotiated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3de5a4a2-8494-464e-b98b-a954584d2585) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_HpYlBPKU8
- **2024-04-03**, Craig Fehrman on presidents as authors. A discussion of Author in Chief, on the long history of American presidents writing and publishing books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/52efe195-d55b-4d79-8ee3-6ffa9345ec9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKJ2CW9OECA
- **2024-04-03**, News about books and the publishing industry. A C-SPAN roundup of current book-trade news, covering sales, imprints and industry developments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/62ca21fa-63b3-4fcb-837f-40e3eca75b72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28dAVOx3KAU
- **2024-04-03**, Artificial intelligence and the publishing industry. C-SPAN examines how generative AI is affecting publishers, authors and copyright, an active controversy in the trade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/634a52d5-98b0-4067-bac7-6cb7e831c248) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QgDGQ8x9TQ
- **2024-04-03**, Jeff Deutsch on what bookstores are for. The director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op discusses the economics and purpose of bookselling, from his book In Praise of Good Bookstores. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b41e3d6-d645-46a2-975a-1f34637ee66b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkZbhfprdUA
- **2024-04-03**, Washington Post books editor John Williams. A newspaper books editor discusses reviewing, coverage decisions and how criticism interacts with the trade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/73a4be13-2e62-4b0e-b81d-fdf072a1dc6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkOyJ7BBeD8
- **2024-04-03**, Cormac McCarthy and the publishing industry. C-SPAN's About Books discusses McCarthy's career alongside wider questions about how literary fiction is published. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f8463fd-9296-417e-b0ce-da8bfaa61d92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsf69HZFzkY
- **2024-04-03**, Publisher Peter Osnos on political books. The founder of PublicAffairs discusses a career in publishing and the market for political titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/971eb960-bd45-4694-b776-d09848f0728f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA8wnH8uSSs
- **2024-04-03**, Elizabeth Harris on BookTok and book sales. A New York Times reporter explains how TikTok book recommendations began driving measurable sales for publishers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a06dab58-fb10-4a50-88ac-c4dca8ec8bcb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51l6ce6PlY
- **2024-04-03**, The art of the blurb. C-SPAN examines the publishing convention of cover endorsements and how they are solicited and used to sell books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b61a7665-3b7d-48bd-8503-50a098ed8ce6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XBJSNvW30
- **2024-04-03**, Book bans and school libraries. A C-SPAN programme setting out the arguments made by advocates and opponents of removing books from school collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d0593221-0129-4e21-86cf-b0a8c7e4ab83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtHtpq1yDI
- **2024-04-03**, Hillel Italie on the Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster merger. An Associated Press books reporter explains the blocked $2.2bn merger and what the antitrust trial revealed about publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d81e0469-3e37-41e6-89f9-05f275a7ac7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsI2fK4qeb4
- **2024-04-03**, The interview Salman Rushdie came to regret. Archive footage of Rushdie discussing religion and the fallout from The Satanic Verses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e178b448-c78c-40fa-8367-5ac70770c0ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se6e5kd9_aA
- **2024-04-11**, Her education, our future. UNESCO documentary following four young women in different countries whose schooling and literacy are at stake. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ce6ade69-fbf8-41c5-b989-f7d747a51137) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QQKavtcfM
- **2024-04-15**, Material evidence in incunabula. Beinecke Library on reading rubrication, annotation and binding as evidence of a printed book's life. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f54cb93-2e7e-4778-85d5-43cedd17d8e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVSi-0fFVFE
- **2024-04-17**, 700,000 items moved out of the Old Library. Trinity library staff mark the completion of the decant, 350,000 volumes among over 700,000 items relocated before conservation work began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/46ccabc4-6911-464a-9f96-e68c5e5887b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQhWYZaySRI
- **2024-04-20**, Colour E Ink under a microscope. Extreme close-up footage of a colour electronic paper screen, showing how the filter layer produces colour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d354b9e5-67b1-42bd-bf4a-8bda7524cef2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9fLxKY8UQs
- **2024-04-25**, Publishing analyst Brenna Connor on book sales. A Circana book-market analyst reviews sales data for the year, including which categories grew and which declined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/129a809d-d74c-4cc7-8f65-b15830f0ef6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADmA-yYESy0
- **2024-04-25**, Around the Library of Congress Spring 2024 - 4. Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner George Saunders speaks about his work, April 25, 2024. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7f229d16-5b0e-439b-acd8-02e9c6e36494) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Around_the_Library_of_Congress_Spring_2024_-_4.jpg
- **2024-04-29**, Vesuvius Challenge: how the scrolls were read. The 2023 Grand Prize winners present their ink-detection and segmentation methods for virtually unrolling the carbonised Herculaneum papyri. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/44b28a69-0e62-4ae7-aaac-b4bbb87124e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ak1pRaqVo
- **2024-05-10**, Around the Library of Congress Spring 2024 - 20. Author and actor George Takei speaks to local school groups at the Library of Congress, May 10, 2024. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/11879940-7838-4174-96b9-31aad6e5d534) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Around_the_Library_of_Congress_Spring_2024_-_20.jpg
- **2024-05-16**, The Ottoman transition from scribal to print culture. Historian Orlin Sabev on how and why manuscript copying persisted in the Ottoman Empire long after print was available. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/377777f0-0dfb-4f9b-996f-99f9595da1f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mbfz6-4K0
- **2024-05-16**, Naskh types from Europe, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Borna Izadpanah on how Arabic-script naskh typefaces were cut in different centres and reached 19th-century Iran. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/be360bce-186d-4d68-a88c-8e9c6ff7823d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMMMKoUxH1c
- **2024-06-02**, Is being bilingual good for your brain?. BBC on the evidence for and against claimed cognitive benefits of bilingualism. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/62bc17b8-8eef-4207-b610-e4b78aac5110) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUj3PRvzzg
- **2024-06-07**, Mesmerising manufacturing films of the 1950s. A British Pathe compilation of 1950s industrial process films, including printing and paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/98817572-ed14-4bbd-825b-c433f375982a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfxGMFv9ik0
- **2024-06-12**, The Plantin-Moretus printing dynasty. A tour of the Antwerp house and workshops of Christophe Plantin, the greatest printer of the sixteenth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6dda683b-1f0b-4e81-af80-364a515a1059) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7q3y6KKpk
- **2024-06-12**, Andrea Fleck-Nisbet on independent book publishing. The head of the Independent Book Publishers Association discusses how small presses operate alongside the conglomerates. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d85d4e5b-3f6f-4df0-af02-226d01c59e08) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpuT5CiRYk
- **2024-06-13**, Sewing a medieval girdle book. Cat Tail Run Bookbinding sews a text block on double raised cords with sewn endbands for a girdle book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/958ab11e-f31d-433d-80b5-0728f02687c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPFY0eOZJU
- **2024**, A portal of Abbey Library of St. Gallen. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/03c59989-2b68-4bb6-a400-4464263c7a2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_portal_of_Abbey_Library_of_St._Gallen.jpg
- **2024**, Faqir Chand Book Store. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/088fc907-c0d8-4886-b358-d9e0e6c85e41) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faqir_Chand_Book_Store.jpg
- **2024**, Part of the rotunda in the National Library of Finland 2024. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3ddfccfa-fa04-4262-a351-b5629ad85d6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Part_of_the_rotunda_in_the_National_Library_of_Finland_2024.jpg
- **2024**, A portal of Abbey Library of St. Gallen cutout. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/693f96f6-f4a3-4d84-92de-3b959194e270) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_portal_of_Abbey_Library_of_St._Gallen_cutout.jpg
- **2024**, Method of Block printing Chikankari. Woodblock printing, text and image cut in relief into a wooden block and inked, the dominant printing method in East Asia for centuries. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/825e2e0c-fde2-43de-b123-e8b0c036cfa7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Method_of_Block_printing_Chikankari.jpg
- **2024-06-20**, How Chinese characters work. The structure and history of the Chinese writing system, and how its logographic principle differs from an alphabet for the reader. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9c6a7ccc-7d86-4e5f-9ffb-7be5e4d332e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EySK4T2aY
- **2024-06-24**, Preserving Islamic manuscripts in Qatar. A BBC Arabic segment inside Qatar National Library's conservation programme for Islamic manuscripts, combining scientific and traditional methods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0f6c434-2798-4ecc-8e77-9dca9d338171) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5j0xT5lBA
- **2024-07-05**, Printing a letterpress type reproduction proof. RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection pulls a proof of metal type in its pressroom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d6942342-b4b7-4418-984d-3935a5500d03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiuh67R7cos
- **2024-07-11**, Papyrus, parchment and paper. American Bookbinders Museum compares the three great writing supports and what each made possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a5559fdc-8e9c-4234-a976-a54c3846dbff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8tOKR9EOI
- **2024-07-12**, The New York Times names the best books of the century so far. NBC News reports on the newspaper's ranked list of twenty-first-century books and how it was assembled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/def13cca-9350-437d-9a51-8b45fa6dea19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16P0NEAzeQI
- **2024-07-12**, The Vatican's restricted library. A short history-podcast account of the church's holdings of prohibited books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08ecf83f-707b-4cd6-9a03-c28a827563b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0goQiEBYA
- **2024-07-19**, What the Dresden Codex records about the sky. Spanish-language DW report on the astronomical content of the Maya codex in Dresden and the researchers decoding its tables. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6ef2c47c-6126-4c56-8052-97b9a452fb07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu_LRuoza4E
- **2024-07-25**, Why read books rather than screens?. A BBC programme discussing research comparing comprehension when reading print and digital text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/244f69e4-63c6-4c90-aaf8-141aa128a3d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pvijqmolQ
- **2024-07-25**, Inside a Japanese notebook factory. A tour of the Kokuyo Campus notebook plant, showing paper handling and binding at scale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9ca01b59-a52e-441a-8c07-cce7f725b7c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlB1D7oxXDg
- **2024-08-01**, The Babylonian Map of the World. British Museum Curator's Corner: Irving Finkel reads a clay tablet carrying the oldest known map of the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3e1f283e-efa6-4197-b3ec-bcaa235963d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r384
- **2024-08-10**, Book restrictions pressure Indiana schools and libraries. PBS NewsHour reports on a state law and its effect on what school and public libraries stock. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b78bae3e-6a64-4000-89f0-655fc2b5a535) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieXgWjS-9Q
- **2024-08-21**, UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books. France 24 reports survey findings that British school librarians have faced requests to withdraw titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4dad0a95-3c1b-4011-8345-0499b7d7575d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPppf2etbVY
- **2024-08-21**, Evan Friss on the history of the American bookstore. A bookstore event with the author of The Bookshop, tracing how American bookselling developed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b084d48-1641-4236-be6a-674cb3ea6b7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ZjIbaZWaI
- **2024-08-22**, Thailand's palm-leaf manuscript collection. UNESCO on the Phra That Phanom chronicle manuscripts and their preservation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f4cc0fb3-f443-4f3f-8cb3-5ebd0cf18c9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb1fsga2_jI
- **2024-08-29**, Hand papermaking demonstrated in a museum. A working papermaker forms sheets at the North Carolina Museum of Art and explains pulp preparation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/df51c108-dd2c-4b70-98c9-fb13c9acd986) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAZ81L4Zuq8
- **2024-09-09**, The Bookshop: a history of the American bookstore. A library author talk on the history of bookselling in the United States and its recurring crises. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0a33ffad-845e-478a-b0b9-4da645cdf02e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PofPz607M-Y
- **2024-09-09**, Why publishers sued the Internet Archive. TechCrunch on the Hachette case and the defeat of controlled digital lending. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/334100ec-d557-469b-85f3-85c84b62de30) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS4-WWvIxbY
- **2024-09-16**, Inside the transformed Folger Shakespeare Library. A public television visit to the renovated Folger, including its rare book vault and exhibition spaces. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0e082d37-e626-4939-99ee-f75bde7431e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkhe4Ncb81E
- **2024-09-21**, The whole letterpress process. Sacramento History Museum walks through composing, locking up and printing in its working print shop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/86eb1624-a63f-45de-a1d8-ea26803926f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJJ6uKlaZA
- **2024-09-23**, Japan's National Diet Library. The NDL's own introduction to its role as the only national library attached to the Japanese Diet, its legal deposit function and its digital collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f05ef32a-2a97-49d5-8a75-e4a306f429a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJXLA2efshs
- **2024-09-26**, The scandal that shook Britain. Tim Tate on the Spycatcher case and what the failed suppression revealed about MI5. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8c467c9d-d979-4028-ad76-e2ff0b94b123) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gEe0zxL6CU
- **2024-09-29**, What happens in a multi-literate child's brain. Interview with Dr Froso Argyri on reading in more than one script or language and its cognitive effects. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a8bf9b7d-f681-4df1-93e2-d19ab6f17b8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccaEWPTyNf8
- **2024-09-30**, Piecing together Dunhuang fragments. A case study in reassembling scattered Diamond Sutra manuscripts from fragments held in different collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d530782b-1c06-492c-9202-021c4b995d3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPZycvvtOY
- **2024-10-07**, Tools for libraries facing book challenges. An American Library Association session on the reconsideration process and how libraries handle formal complaints. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ee64f7d-4083-42d7-a931-5f6a370792ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINeCnHl8t4
- **2024-10-11**, Inside the British Library's manuscript collections. Dr Andrea Clarke, lead curator of medieval and early modern manuscripts, tours the collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c38fe4ab-0c12-4409-bb7f-f1a6f81253e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_zm_6ejhM
- **2024-10-16**, From paper to finished notebook. A factory line taking paper through printing, folding, binding and trimming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/04dd65f1-b0e8-46fc-8e5e-9f5a01dce984) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXajQBdc-r0
- **2024-10-19**, Parchment makers in present-day Ethiopia. A documentary on Ethiopian parchment production, an unbroken craft still supplying scribes and church manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/34ffdb96-e3d8-482c-af40-598666dedd21) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yJO4ZddkU
- **2024-10-20**, The Great Mongol Shahnama, reassembled. Smithsonian curators on an early 14th-century Persian manuscript whose surviving pages were split between collections in the 20th century, brought together for exhibition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a42c1e11-dcd3-4e00-b82e-28b6482f415f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWFxLrQAaQ
- **2024-10-21**, The Satanic Verses thirty years on. A BBC documentary revisiting the 1989 fatwa, the protests and the book's publication history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/26b5e0c9-cd6b-4c46-ab4e-73cfc188022d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlvDQ0DvHsA
- **2024-10-21**, Salman Rushdie: through a glass darkly. A BBC documentary profile of Rushdie covering the years he lived under the fatwa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dd89a0d7-cc96-4109-86e2-b010392747bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv1uvfPmphI
- **2024-10-23**, ইসলামী বইমেলা ২০২৪-৭. বায়তুল মুকাররম ইসলামী বইমেলা ২০২৪ এর বিভিন্ন স্পটের ছবি। উক্ত ছবি গুলো শিল্পী আতিক তাশরীফ এর মোবাইলে ধারণকৃত। আর সেগুলো আমাকে দিয়েছেন তিনি। [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aa510d8e-4c75-4e2b-9691-3b891148ba7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%AA-%E0%A7%AD.jpg
- **2024-10-23**, Talking book and braille library services today. Library conference session on how a state talking-book and braille library operates and reaches readers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/47f754b1-1c4c-463c-bf45-4969db564d2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSd_y8gaKo
- **2024-10-24**, BookWars: New York's street booksellers. A documentary following secondhand book vendors on the sidewalks of New York and the trade they built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e78ad97e-c392-440c-aeb0-6df861247a8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1yArHAPGp0
- **2024-11-22**, A researcher on library book challenges. Shannon Oltmann presents research findings on how librarians actually experience and handle challenges. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/08cb6144-a4c6-4b46-8f7b-c2da267aceb2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIiKrziHRP8
- **2024-11-25**, Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal. British Museum curator Dr Jon Taylor on the 7th-century BCE Assyrian king's collection of cuneiform tablets from Nineveh, around 30,000 fragments, the oldest surviving systematically assembled library, and the source of the Epic of Gilgamesh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7d383990-89b1-40e9-9c92-1799eff3911f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCVMzm1rfc
- **2024-12-08**, Why Stalin banned popular books. A survey of the literature suppressed under Stalin and the reasoning offered at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/65e56208-e850-4aaa-bcdb-8ece4a80198d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUbCkWrFPGM
- **2024-12-10**, Sending books through prison censorship. KPBS on Books Through Bars San Diego, whose volunteers ship books to incarcerated people nationwide and navigate what each facility will allow. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/54e74d92-17ed-4be5-9064-5ba1c542ee37) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSdExbqFX7Q
- **2024-12-12**, Diamond Sutra Rev 12-12-24. repainted based on a sketch of the Diamond Sutra found in the Mogao Caves [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d3813b02-70ca-4027-901e-817972aabd43) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diamond_Sutra_Rev_12-12-24.jpg
- **2024-12-19**, How were ukiyo-e prints made?. A curator walks through the collaboration of publisher, designer, block-cutter and printer behind a Japanese print. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3c1a7f47-5589-4508-989f-8a61ac370387) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSGxzKNnR0
- **2024-12-27**, Silent resistance: Romanian film under communism. How Romanian filmmakers worked around Ceausescu-era censorship, a parallel to what writers faced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4792e5c8-0f90-4b0a-99d0-ac3de5173605) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3aKvHlkemw
- **2024-12-28**, Rushdie on the fatwa. Salman Rushdie speaks about the fatwa, secularism and what the affair did to publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/701eff24-936e-4d8b-83d4-346845ab93b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974b_8PFHs0
- **2024-12-30**, A sharp drop in children reading for pleasure. Sky News reports survey findings showing fewer British children reading for enjoyment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4f4ddc33-4c31-4ffa-af3c-d282eb0c778b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smzd3_0EvUw
### 2025
- **2025-01-13**, Caslon, the typeface that shaped print history. On William Caslon's roman and how it became the default English book face for over a century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b08682fc-b91c-4418-88dd-b0da33bc637d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1gy3qMDsnA
- **2025-01-19**, Could an Arctic vault save our data?. BBC reporter visits the Svalbard archive and asks what happens when the technology that holds our records becomes unreadable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b2cce1f-4a32-4a91-8399-a7a06849e0ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcs6VOcnz8
- **2025-01-21**, Orality and literacy. An examination of Walter Ong's argument about how writing and print changed human thought. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b045ef10-0e06-47ef-b1d9-1f0e2420e0d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Q4yU719FA
- **2025-01-23**, Writing palm-leaf manuscripts in Sri Lanka. A UNESCO documentation of the full Sri Lankan palm-leaf craft: cutting and curing leaves, incising text with a stylus, and inking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af4f1f47-5895-4530-ad38-e6b9588a38c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjEnMTpCm0g
- **2025-01-24**, The Librarians at Sundance. IndieWire talks to director Kim Snyder and the librarians in her documentary about book bans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f1fa4794-1d5d-4a8c-a2fc-65437a3daf6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTKBj9YemIg
- **2025-01-27**, The Abbey Library of St Gallen. One of the oldest monastic libraries in the world, in a Baroque hall built over a collection begun in the eighth century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/493ab9ab-db88-4901-9d62-c5dcbb95b776) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ast2rtOaSM
- **2025-01-27**, The Muteferrika press, 1727-1747. A detailed study of the first Ottoman Turkish printing house and the typographic decisions behind its books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/643c5d50-4c8f-446a-9764-8b2ec4136433) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXD_1eNs6k
- **2025-02-02**, Visiting the British Library. A visit to the British Library, which holds over 170 million items. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3f2cbe1a-c266-4441-a48a-8d47a8585e64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHBd3aNGqrQ
- **2025-03-04**, Mahfouz through Western eyes. An analysis of how Mahfouz was read abroad and the controversy his work generated at home. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/977a170d-23de-48a8-9572-00ff32cf8ec2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3d9IOsEQdg
- **2025-03-05**, Ira Wells on book banning. A critic argues against removal campaigns while also examining objections raised from within the political left. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/69263135-5264-41e1-baa7-bd0d9430e161) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGw4slrJq-k
- **2025-03-10**, PEN America on book banning. France 24 interviews a PEN America representative about its Banned in the USA reporting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8d89e874-6139-4914-af75-a22db6cb9b9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmFvVLaz-sM
- **2025-03-19**, AI-generated audiobooks gain momentum. An authors' association news roundup on AI narration deals between voice firms and audiobook platforms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/745d6102-0886-4f99-a465-f7b476adc94d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=195gjg8z-zk
- **2025-03-27**, The Index of Forbidden Books. An account of the Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum across the four centuries it was maintained. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/65ee04ab-e2eb-45bc-a9ed-bda6212bb2d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlYPYFr8SnM
- **2025-03-27**, The Asian Resources Room at the Kansai-kan. The National Diet Library's Kansai-kan on its Asian-language collections and how researchers use them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e90708b7-f22d-47fb-86bf-2870e931e3c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCGlH0MS3HM
- **2025-03-30**, The inaugural annual history of the book lecture. An Institute of English Studies and Warburg Institute lecture inaugurating an annual series on book history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a78f57ba-4dd3-4fd4-aaa6-5c050655d4aa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfbF6d78i0
- **2025-04-02**, Women collectors and authors. A Library of Congress lecture on women who built book collections and how their libraries were dispersed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1d2afb78-2388-47a3-bdad-0261add130a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwCrCzG33M
- **2025-04-06**, Book bans in the US and Argentina compared. DW reports on removal campaigns in two countries and presents the arguments made on each side. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4e5a3ef7-b62e-43fd-a1b1-482bebe44ea0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-awWliGiBg
- **2025-04-07**, Inside the Abbey Library of Saint Gall. A longer tour of the St Gallen abbey library and its manuscript holdings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/266c4bad-2d2f-462b-b335-82f3044848b4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WvkKPD4f4
- **2025-04-07**, Ohio librarians fight for state funding. WFMJ on Mahoning County librarians campaigning against a proposed funding change. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6924bd70-6cac-42dd-96d6-c14b7cff98c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGaLfLGCqkM
- **2025-04-07**, Shakyo: Buddhist sutra copying as practice. A Zen teacher explains shakyo, the practice of hand-copying sutras, and its place in Buddhist devotional book culture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b4c3ae4-9677-43cc-8a81-afb2c1027d37) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tsWUlOoAT0
- **2025-04-10**, The apocalypse-proof time capsule in the Arctic. Thomson Reuters Foundation report on the Svalbard vault, which holds software, Vatican Museum documents and artworks written to photosensitive film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f61982e8-6f15-4edf-bd38-d5cd9829ad26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuLgCkqFO9M
- **2025-04-11**, Argentine musician Fito Páez looks over a colelctions display during a tour of the Library of Congress on Apri. Argentine musician Fito Páez looks over a colelctions display during a tour of the Library, April 11, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d55114ac-c081-46f1-89cd-10e2f31be461) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Argentine_musician_Fito_P%C3%A1ez_looks_over_a_colelctions_display_during_a_tour_of_the_Library_of_Congress_on_April_11,_2025.jpg
- **2025-04-12**, The Linotype and the machine age of print. A long documentary on the Linotype, the line-casting machine that made the mass-circulation newspaper possible. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5814bf98-3a95-47f9-9b00-37947ab5b04c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtJO59eKJ8
- **2025-04-15**, Actor Hugh Bonneville looks over a collections display with Patrick Hastings during a tour of the Library of C. Actor Hugh Bonneville looks over a collections display with Patrick Hastings during a tour of the Library, April 15, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eee39309-a73d-4508-b610-e621359a164a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actor_Hugh_Bonneville_looks_over_a_collections_display_with_Patrick_Hastings_during_a_tour_of_the_Library_of_Congress_on_April_15,_2025.jpg
- **2025-04-16**, A volunteer bookmobile across the border. KPBS on a volunteer-run mobile library serving rural communities south of the San Diego border with no library budget at all. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a7c3b750-1df2-4159-a30c-b6a440c32a78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz44CbiWt0
- **2025-04-18**, The rise of independent bookstores. A news report on the growth in independent bookshop numbers after decades of chain and online competition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0fe5acd2-c845-493b-b0d3-1f13728c1d2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_-slCLmxM
- **2025-04-19**, The Morgan Library at one hundred. CBS News marks the centenary of the Morgan Library and profiles its founding librarian. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ef12c098-9be6-4bef-a99c-347c387c32c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX0LCS00GvY
- **2025-04-20**, The Penguin archive at 90. A first look at the Penguin Books archive, marking ninety years from 1935 to 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c8dacc7a-c964-4c9c-949b-918ee2ca30ae) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-TSXyDBR8
- **2025-04-21**, Against the state information monopoly in East Germany. A lecture on the media experiments that worked around East German publishing controls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cc158b2c-1c60-4fd6-a126-6b8882d04864) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKk0ajKBWT0
- **2025-04-23**, Reconstructing the Dunhuang Library Cave. A presentation on researching and reimagining the sealed cave that held tens of thousands of manuscripts for nine centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66c4a92f-02a5-456d-9302-d09bf6bfab83) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np9g5tzGfDg
- **2025-04-24**, Hebrew treasures from the Library of Congress. A Library of Congress presentation of rare Hebrew books and manuscripts in the collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b0c58631-0f0a-49e3-b7a3-b9cfb599245c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLsi_2ArX48
- **2025-04-25**, Conservators Gwenanne Edwards and Claire Dekle work on Egyptian papyri fragments circa 7th-11th century CE, fr. Conservators Gwenanne Edwards and Claire Dekle work on Egyptian papyri fragments, c. 7th-11th century CE, from the African and MIddle Eastern Division's Fustat Collection, April 25, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/49483968-76d4-455f-b95a-541ba07a18c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservators_Gwenanne_Edwards_and_Claire_Dekle_work_on_Egyptian_papyri_fragments_circa_7th-11th_century_CE,_from_the_Library_of_Congress_African_and_MIddle_Eastern_Division%27s_Fustat_Collection,_April_25,_2025.jpg
- **2025-04-26**, Publishers enter the book banning fight. A report on major publishers taking legal action over school book removals in the United States. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/527798dd-45fd-4526-be4c-537ce1505e6e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S_XPwvefe0
- **2025-04-27**, Americans are reading fewer books. Does it matter?. A public radio programme examining reading survey data with researchers and what the decline implies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4cb6304f-9fc4-42fa-bbc7-369c49f018c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ZXCpGV8BQ
- **2025-04-28**, The Merlin fragment rediscovered at Cambridge. Cambridge University Library on a medieval French Merlin manuscript found reused as a binding, then virtually unrolled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c989ffa3-c462-40cf-9db1-15aeba4156e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSmQesAqmfI
- **2025-05-03**, Can the Internet Archive save our digital history?. BBC News goes behind the scenes at the Internet Archive as it fights lawsuits and preserves the web. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a4dc6de0-0c82-4d81-9ba7-c39e132337a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh98N46DM5k
- **2025-05-09**, Ibn Muqla and the proportioned script. On the 10th-century Abbasid vizier who systematised Arabic letterforms using the rhombic dot and the alif as units of measure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bf5351af-2dc4-4b05-bf42-dc2f480d6a5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReQPalZdz0
- **2025-05-16**, Audible gives AI narration to publishers. A commentary on Audible's rollout of AI voice narration and what it means for human audiobook narrators. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d6a152a4-5cd6-4af8-b1eb-3d6fd4c701e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwhUs7a6I0k
- **2025-05-17**, Gutenberg Bible in the John Rylands Library (01). A 15th-century Gutenberg Bible, formerly owned by a monastery in Colmar, northeast France, displayed at the John Rylands Library. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/80c9fb74-9693-4e8c-a153-fa90828829c9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_Bible_in_the_John_Rylands_Library_(01).jpg
- **2025-05-23**, An AI voice narrates a memoir audiobook. ITV News reports on the use of a synthesised voice to narrate an audiobook and the debate it prompted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/dfed7764-8b24-4d80-90fa-4c750ca075f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5u8PaAN31k
- **2025-05-27**, The American literacy crisis explained. An examination of American adult literacy statistics and the arguments about what is driving them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/486715b0-0c83-41e2-8974-baad27e9531a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCT31BOLDM
- **2025-05-28**, The Library of Congress. Stuff You Missed in History Class on the institution's founding, burnings and expansion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ee947301-2b88-4c3f-90d2-b5a7dbc6c0ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPVIosnKKY
- **2025-05-29**, The Irish manuscripts at St Gallen. National Museum of Ireland on scientific analysis of the Irish gospel books held at the Swiss abbey, carried there by early medieval Irish monks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4c151277-838b-421a-b8cc-5e9e84ce1dbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXTd-npjcY0
- **2025-05-29**, Kenyan publishers on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Associated Press from Nairobi after the death of the novelist who abandoned English for Gikuyu, and on what that decision meant for African-language publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/74488514-35ad-4e01-9253-7e72c23adf72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3CA0R5I3E
- **2025-06-02**, Women's voices from the Myanmar revolution. PEN America hosts Myanmar writers discussing publishing under renewed military rule. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/82d10411-f182-4b51-8339-35ab1e70e4dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-u3wNVn334
- **2025-06-03**, Fair use or infringement: the Copyright Office report on AI training. A Hudson Institute panel debates the US Copyright Office's analysis of whether training generative AI on copyrighted books is fair use. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/003e32b6-bafc-4b00-974d-43834de9c65e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0STgKoUPlY
- **2025-06-12**, AI decodes the Herculaneum scrolls. Computer History Museum panel on the machine-learning pipeline behind the Vesuvius Challenge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a842f4a0-3e4b-4745-a08e-e1c338d537eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbcqmWFNYs
- **2025-06-12**, Solving the mystery of the Bodleian's Herculaneum scroll. The Bodleian's carbonised scroll is imaged and read for the first time through the Vesuvius Challenge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1208ba29-45bb-4ac2-b15e-bab401c84891) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKdUp1yy5Y
- **2025-06-13**, The only surviving manuscript in Jane Austen's hand. The Morgan Library presents an Austen manuscript and what it shows about her working methods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/230cbc76-2491-4b1f-9cdf-ec9ec85cc951) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntX-FXdn254
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 06. Booksellers and bookselling. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1100ff6f-1990-4bec-aaf1-d0b85b20b8a9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_06.jpg
- **2025**, 1047185 II BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND SCHOOLS QUADRANGLE INCLUDING THE DIVINITY SCHOOL AND THE CONVOCATION HOUSE, RA. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2783f26b-86ff-41b3-bacf-934942846f8f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1047185_II_BODLEIAN_LIBRARY_AND_SCHOOLS_QUADRANGLE_INCLUDING_THE_DIVINITY_SCHOOL_AND_THE_CONVOCATION_HOUSE,_RADCLIFFE_SQUARE_Oxford_20250617_0001.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 04. Booksellers and bookselling. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f10dce1-334e-4987-942d-36011f53834b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_04.jpg
- **2025**, 1047185 I BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND SCHOOLS QUADRANGLE INCLUDING THE DIVINITY SCHOOL AND THE CONVOCATION HOUSE, fro. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2fe80897-289a-443c-8c8c-2c044dfb0a95) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1047185_I_BODLEIAN_LIBRARY_AND_SCHOOLS_QUADRANGLE_INCLUDING_THE_DIVINITY_SCHOOL_AND_THE_CONVOCATION_HOUSE,_from_S_Oxford_20250617_0030.jpg
- **2025**, 1047185 I BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND SCHOOLS QUADRANGLE INCLUDING THE DIVINITY SCHOOL AND THE CONVOCATION HOUSE, fro - Tilman2007. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/39f532aa-4741-4d8d-a988-87bae37074ca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1047185_I_BODLEIAN_LIBRARY_AND_SCHOOLS_QUADRANGLE_INCLUDING_THE_DIVINITY_SCHOOL_AND_THE_CONVOCATION_HOUSE,_from_S_Oxford_20250617_0031.jpg
- **2025**, Example of hardcover sewn perfect binding with a possibly false cloth reinforcement. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/41bd50a3-5ffe-415e-91bd-666c55a1fb44) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_hardcover_sewn_perfect_binding_with_a_possibly_false_cloth_reinforcement.jpg
- **2025**, Example of sewn perfect binding. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4961aba9-af9a-4db0-9b88-3eb39290d39a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_sewn_perfect_binding.jpg
- **2025**, Nacional Library of Aruba, San Nicolas, Aruba 01. A national library building. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4beb3bbb-028f-444c-938e-c7ee7dd41c89) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nacional_Library_of_Aruba,_San_Nicolas,_Aruba_01.jpg
- **2025**, Eugene Ormandy having a Wikimedia lecture for staff members of National Diet Library 20250212. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6526c6ba-a9a6-4b55-8c16-b298ec3b06ca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eugene_Ormandy_having_a_Wikimedia_lecture_for_staff_members_of_National_Diet_Library_20250212.jpg
- **2025**, Linotype 2503-0230. The Linotype, the line-casting machine that from 1886 let one operator set and cast a whole line of type at a keyboard. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/66d823ad-76f8-4476-9894-a32a8bb9057d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linotype_2503-0230.jpg
- **2025**, National Diet Library 20250212. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a100b1b-a08e-4352-a81c-dd2f0b79eadf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Diet_Library_20250212.jpg
- **2025**, Example of a book with a burst binding. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7bb0c358-0e78-46fc-b03d-360d4122d4c3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_a_book_with_a_burst_binding.jpg
- **2025**, Albion Press at Printopia MRD 02. An Albion press, the English cast-iron hand press of the nineteenth century, still used for fine printing. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9cfe9c4f-92b3-43b7-9b41-f3bae1449a6e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albion_Press_at_Printopia_MRD_02.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 01. Booksellers and bookselling. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9e4dd59d-d2c3-46cd-99fe-80b5e757d021) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_01.jpg
- **2025**, Stand de libros en La Feria de Libros Amazonas. A second-hand bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9fdaace9-a802-4268-bb4d-73857c2e027d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stand_de_libros_en_La_Feria_de_Libros_Amazonas.jpg
- **2025**, Albion Press at Printopia MRD 01. An Albion press, the English cast-iron hand press of the nineteenth century, still used for fine printing. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a21d525a-4c83-4936-b5a4-c3ee0370ade6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albion_Press_at_Printopia_MRD_01.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 03. Booksellers and bookselling. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b30027da-2af4-414c-baca-303568a6ffd7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_03.jpg
- **2025**, Type holder. Bookbinders’ tools and equipment, knives, presses, finishing tools and marbling gear. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9db991e-beb7-4d43-8a4f-3fbf83219135) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Type_holder.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 05. A second-hand bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bd95d347-3a28-4fbb-a508-fd6d360ca258) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_05.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 02. Booksellers and bookselling. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e953991c-a73d-4331-a9df-9ada8ad54295) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_02.jpg
- **2025**, McKAY's used bookstore in Chattanooga, Tennessee 07. A second-hand bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/eb532ace-f321-46f1-b288-ff4f1716329c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKAY%27s_used_bookstore_in_Chattanooga,_Tennessee_07.jpg
- **2025**, Flex Printing Machine at dwarka mod. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fdea0dd1-2eed-444c-a3b5-28ee05312c4a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flex_Printing_Machine_at_dwarka_mod.jpg
- **2025-06-16**, Incunabula provenance at the Beinecke. Dr Agnieszka Rec on tracing the ownership history of Yale's fifteenth-century printed books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9f9213c3-606b-4e13-9dd3-cdcb58d6a43b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzdZfHl-FM
- **2025-07-01**, What a number one New York Times bestseller actually means. An explanation of how the bestseller list is compiled and why the ranking is not a simple sales count. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ed556bb-cdac-4e70-886e-dd1c42c27259) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqE_3CQpQf4
- **2025-07-02**, The Bay Psalm Book of 1640. Library of Congress account of the first book produced in what became the United States, printed on a press shipped from England. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/668f9723-0109-45f4-8b1b-066edbec80c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h5x7dictIw
- **2025-07-05**, The Genji Monogatari Emaki: the oldest surviving Genji scroll. Smarthistory art historians examine the c.1130 illustrated Tale of Genji handscroll held at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, ink and colour on paper. It is the earliest surviving pictorial version of the novel, made roughly a century after the text was written. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f2cc0e56-14da-46ae-a6f3-b10a6fbe0821) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwX7NLUr40
- **2025-07-09**, AI training and copyright law: updates from the courts. A Federalist Society panel reviews pending litigation and Copyright Office guidance on AI training data, with arguments on both sides. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/aba77eba-b41d-4f3e-805a-70c6c0b58f15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9z4jJnvIY
- **2025-07-10**, Wayzgoose 2025 at the International Printing Museum. The printing museum's annual wayzgoose and letterpress surplus sale, a printers' tradition kept alive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/712c4636-ae8a-499d-8b3b-31742a4df04a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbnseB7GOs
- **2025-07-14**, Shakespeare's First Folio. A documentary presented by Simon Russell Beale on how the 1623 collection was assembled and printed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7a5254ef-54bb-4a58-8094-d55cd4df82e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwiogDbbho
- **2025-07-16**, David Baldacci testifies on AI and authors' copyright. The novelist gives evidence to a US Senate hearing arguing that AI training on books without licence threatens authorship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/695adcd8-3510-4cf6-b338-f1477aa3c9b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPUWSv2JCI
- **2025-07-23**, Cutting traditional Chinese woodblocks. A carver works a traditional Chinese design into a printing block, showing knife control and the removal of waste wood. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/429beda7-a4f5-4f0e-85c1-4acf6128ca00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_tQIeMJg8
- **2025-07-30**, How to fix a book: hinge repair to page tears. A Huntington Library conservator demonstrates standard book repair techniques. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/83f452f1-0f14-4fd2-b736-fe0dfe9d83d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFtUjS63XUI
- **2025-07-30**, Four digital rights for memory institutions. The Internet Archive argues for the rights libraries and archives need to preserve digital heritage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f3e78eeb-e6d0-4f84-ba0a-d884550c59c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Si4KeKB1TQ
- **2025-08-03**, The 1933 book burnings. An account of how the burnings were organised by student groups and what followed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/0ae0a5bc-3e6e-4889-ac70-44e621cca2ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlt_xq0hSHU
- **2025-08-04**, Where and when was the Voynich Manuscript written?. A handwriting-based analysis presented at Voynich Manuscript Day 2025, arguing from the hands rather than the imagery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/329bc255-3ed9-44a5-bec6-72acf433e5d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tDr9zbtgKY
- **2025-08-07**, Printing bokashi gradation. The British Museum films the hand-graded ink wash that gives Japanese prints their skies and water. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/148965c5-3207-4acf-924f-8c23c77544b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-qkQyrp-Yc
- **2025-08-08**, The Ethiopic Book of Enoch. A Library of Congress lecture on the textual history of a book preserved in Ethiopic manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3e7f6dcf-b437-4dfe-97d1-f5d0ea0f1bfc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NnUpyOB40
- **2025-08-15**, Coffee with a codex: a Voynich facsimile. Curator-led session handling a facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript page by page, discussing quire structure, ink and the limits of what codicology can settle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b704de7b-2dfd-466f-b8d4-86957521e9b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwjwLYTJug
- **2025-08-18**, Two hundred crates of manuscripts return to Timbuktu. Reuters footage of the manuscripts being brought back to the city they were smuggled out of, amid a still fragile security situation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9dcddf7-beef-4bb5-ad27-2018d8fbdfd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUe19xNvOg0
- **2025-08-23**, Inside one of the country's oldest bookshops. CBS Mornings visits a long-established American bookstore and its owners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/680ffca8-d8a2-4b08-b1d7-63dbcc4da75e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyEN1wj0M8
- **2025-08-23**, An underground library in Tehran. A report on a Tehran collection preserving books that cannot legally be sold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2940e976-bdae-4aef-8a60-cff7e08f7e6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6OA8E6lSA0
- **2025-08-24**, Mali returns the manuscripts to Timbuktu. DW reports on the return of thousands of manuscripts evacuated to Bamako in 2013 when armed groups occupied the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9c2c3aaf-6df3-46bd-a100-21bebf49023d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2ZvbQeZ6o
- **2025-08-25**, Citizens who ran into the flames for the books. A Bosnian anniversary report on those who tried to rescue volumes from the burning library. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/85acc1d3-3d10-453f-b423-0f28a71e1b91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X38LIFV-WMI
- **2025-09-01**, Intaglio, offset and letterpress compared. An animated explainer distinguishing the three main printing principles by how ink actually reaches the paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7761085d-35e2-44c2-9c0e-6b22ab90d7ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLEnEoGMSY
- **2025-09-09**, The women who sustained Polish Solidarity. Shana Penn on the women who kept Solidarity's underground press and communications running. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1f19ae25-e723-474e-bf0d-6f607ba959f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmCp9Umcbk
- **2025-09-09**, Ireland's adult literacy agency wins the UNESCO Confucius Prize. Short award announcement for NALA's e-learning platform for adult learners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d74b9cdc-ab2d-4e0c-b8b3-0f477b21296d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OOoFZVzNtc
- **2025-09-11**, Behind the craft of conserving rare books. A conservator at a university library bindery explains the decisions involved in treating a rare book. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0649e81-b650-4588-8f51-71605759d20a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi-j65zcMDI
- **2025-09-14**, The cave temples of Dunhuang. The Getty on the Mogao Grottoes, the Silk Road cave complex whose sealed library reshaped the history of the book in Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed043150-30f5-4306-b58e-11f961555cf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJZFjzk3dU
- **2025-09-15**, Why reading scores dropped to their worst point in decades. PBS NewsHour interviews an education researcher about the decline in American reading assessment scores. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/db7100a6-eb16-462e-b4a2-4b0cd5aec0d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdbCpBn9kc
- **2025-09-15**, Traditional care practices for books. A 2025 Care and Conservation of Manuscripts seminar paper connecting local custodial knowledge to global conservation practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e8502217-5e4d-41a9-95d6-f438d9e089ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Q8pWmIz_o
- **2025-09-15**, The Spycatcher affair. How the British government's attempt to suppress Peter Wright's MI5 memoir turned into a global publishing story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3c4bf4ee-cfd8-4722-ad64-d0e150643a3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAPvtp2bBpc
- **2025-09-19**, Oxford and Cambridge University Press. The history of the two oldest continuously operating university presses and the privileges that created them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f2dcafa9-7040-4932-b07a-19394a2e007f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqiBby46_k
- **2025-09-22**, Why young men stopped reading fiction. An examination of readership data showing a decline in fiction reading among young men and the publishing explanations offered. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/03592295-783c-4a41-a593-28f9f26415c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsk2ezktN2M
- **2025-10-01**, Aldine types in France. A typographic history lecture on how Aldus Manutius's Venetian types were adapted by French punchcutters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/89345f5e-b496-4d03-ade6-0ef508584c18) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIN8woa1IkM
- **2025-10-03**, Working out medieval packed sewing. Four Keys Book Arts reverse-engineers the packed sewing structure seen on original medieval bindings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f29d5964-c014-42b9-9f9d-b209cc5078de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAnTKmmMbXs
- **2025-10-05**, Public school librarians and the fight over book bans. PBS NewsHour reports on a documentary following librarians facing challenges to books in their collections. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8828dcea-d0e7-46a6-890c-5b977604fbfe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2BezIuAiI
- **2025-10-06**, Stephen King tops the list of censored authors in US schools. AP reports on figures naming the authors whose books were most often removed from American school libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/45eeaf1f-7462-4c4d-abb4-8a86c96f355e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UnnY_jRVw
- **2025-10-07**, Carnegie libraries in Oregon. A historical society talk on the Carnegie grants that built Oregon's public libraries from 1906. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c8d3a5d6-145e-4b86-b9a3-a33f5bfc0621) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDichBc4R0
- **2025-10-08**, A critic of sensitivity readers in publishing. Adam Szetela argues that sensitivity reading has reshaped editorial decisions in trade publishing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2f75b005-06e6-4752-9415-347046ecfc71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpSQADhyDv4
- **2025-10-09**, Who should decide which books are banned?. A USA TODAY podcast episode weighing the competing claims of parents, school boards and librarians. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/62367d1d-58b7-4918-9063-d20a17807142) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbHEKRApmM
- **2025-10-09**, The ALA president on book challenges. American Library Association president Sam Helmick on the current wave of challenges and how libraries respond. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/132c51e8-f7bd-4bc6-9c91-2e95543390be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLA4yMB_POI
- **2025-10-09**, Freedom to publish, freedom to read. A publishing-industry panel on the obligations of publishers when titles come under pressure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b0235bfb-e755-4279-be6b-e4080b6bc5c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SZNMl6Zf-8
- **2025-10-10**, A tour of the Penrith print museum. A long tour of a working print museum's presses, type and machinery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e5dd189c-5f79-4b41-8a63-61092023b099) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKt6L7t4bss
- **2025-10-11**, The Librarians documentary on censorship and the freedom to read. ABC News covers a documentary about American librarians caught in disputes over which books schools may hold. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e540b7ba-44f3-4c8a-aa28-2bfda1dd292d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkbXrWlwCx8
- **2025-10-14**, Art, censorship and resistance in Cuba. An academic panel on how Cuban writers and artists negotiate official publishing channels. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9ff8ec8e-ca8f-436f-a76f-95e382a48150) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRugVA7RecY
- **2025-10-15**, The British Museum Reading Room. A 2025 walkthrough of the domed reading room where Marx, Woolf and Gandhi read. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f10da288-6a71-449e-b4f0-e0a6fc334e3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDjopKqmBJQ
- **2025-10-21**, Is book publishing dying? An author's view. Novelist John Green discusses the economics of publishing and whether industry consolidation and platform sales are ending it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/24920e09-4f25-4787-82da-5ef12414acab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvze0lGcZg
- **2025-10-21**, Carnegie's free public libraries. Brian Cox narrates the case for the free public library as Carnegie's central idea. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/65a4a3d8-cb2c-42eb-a372-f88471eff06f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETFnhXVH8s
- **2025-10-22**, Penny dreadfuls and Victorian popular reading. An account of the cheap serial fiction sold to Victorian working-class readers and the moral panic about it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/93c9bd64-95cc-444e-a9c9-fb9039438634) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE8QnShMkIk
- **2025-10-23**, Military families object to book removals in base schools. PBS NewsHour reports on the Pentagon's removal of books from Department of Defense schools and the response from families. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6b70bd89-85f2-432d-b2b4-a18991640453) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQFPAK31Gs
- **2025-10-23**, The future of libraries, 2025. San Francisco Public Library panel on how libraries are responding to urgent needs in immigrant communities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d85607dc-0657-4dea-8021-fabe415b7018) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOmv4FsMpE
- **2025-10-27**, The largest US library vendor shuts down. WBNS on Baker and Taylor's closure and what it means for libraries that buy 400,000 books a year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b697d07b-a6ed-4111-9ab1-eb6078ccac5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0AP2m5izbU
- **2025-10-27**, Why African history textbooks are still printed in London. An examination of where African books are actually manufactured and published, and what that costs the continent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/837a86bd-25f3-4dd7-b13b-8b1932ccd631) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifkyq36Y2qM
- **2025-11-04**, Protesting library funding cuts in Minnesota. Lakeland PBS on rallies against cuts to the Bemidji and Blackduck libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5943846a-d030-4fba-a715-89b351ad36c5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZy3R1txe7Y
- **2025-11-05**, Decorative tools (bookbinding). Decorative tools, including flowers, circles, stars, and leaves, for decorating bookbindings [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d217b672-2fca-408c-9ce1-7b90729fb49e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decorative_tools_(bookbinding).jpg
- **2025-11-06**, Book restrictions in American prisons. KPBS investigates the scale of book bans inside prisons, which restrict far more titles than schools do. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/80d55925-a660-4c5c-a14f-3101f09817cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TSbmykUqiA
- **2025-11-06**, Anthropic settles authors' AI copyright suit for $1.5 billion. NBC News reports the settlement of a class action brought by authors over the use of their books to train AI models. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f373b0f0-8597-4b5a-abfb-da2f364751bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVpIt0Q35uc
- **2025-11-07**, Arabic printing in the Bodleian collections. A curator presents early Arabic-script printed books held at Oxford. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6f7ad658-0f9c-4013-ae70-e49fac241e11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWBFPhdWNU
- **2025-11-13**, Seattle Central Library explained. An architectural analysis of Rem Koolhaas's radical library for the digital age. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8a57ec76-8fd3-4749-ab7f-e6af106a8abb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHoW3Q5YAJw
- **2025-11-13**, The Cairo Genizah: from storeroom to scholarly revolution. How a discarded-paper store in the Ben Ezra synagogue became one of the largest medieval document caches in the world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/35678d65-4e19-4986-ae11-68e5df0b01bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU2JzIwtYng
- **2025-11-14**, A washi papermaker working alone. A Japanese craftsman making washi single-handedly, filmed through the whole process from bark to dried sheet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5a15e548-8019-4400-bf21-b62651387535) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnpWq0kPOE
- **2025-11-17**, Why students score lower on digital tests. A cognitive scientist reviews the evidence that reading and testing on screens produces weaker results than paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8d2d1786-29a1-4dd4-b722-008a141c3fc7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-uQskiWIk
- **2025-11-18**, Library resilience exercises. Brewster Kahle's keynote on book bans, criminalised librarians and the pressures on libraries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7cc6fd23-863c-47a8-8b88-281184ec7ee8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJtj0jLG9A
- **2025-11-19**, Timbuktu's manuscripts return after years in hiding. AP reports on the return of medieval manuscripts smuggled out of Timbuktu to escape destruction by armed groups. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a0988d85-a2a5-411f-9cee-3776324d75ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A20ev0wwYY
- **2025-11-20**, William Ged and the invention of stereotype printing. On the Edinburgh goldsmith who devised stereotype plates in the 1720s and failed to make them pay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bd804e8a-2b9c-4d8c-94c2-10905b4e983f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMcEZ9FK6ak
- **2025-11-24**, Why digital reading fails: the cognitive map problem. A cognitive scientist explains the spatial-memory account of why readers retain less from screens. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/50bff783-a4f8-4a1b-b89e-f4718a4f8a94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVHNGnclP9Q
- **2025-11-28**, A refreshable braille display, demonstrated. Short demonstration of how an electronic braille display renders digital text as raised dots line by line. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4e4ee2aa-0cc9-4cb7-8873-d7c558ee48b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMA_lF2FlA4
- **2025-12-02**, How comics help people learn to read. On the history of comics in education, from the moral panic of the 1940s to their current use in literacy teaching. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ba15b11a-7fd5-44b5-9b6a-d4e34556b563) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofk-aw5G-FQ
- **2025-12-03**, Codex Mashhad, an early Qur'an manuscript. A specialist introduces Codex Mashhad, one of the most complete surviving Qur'an manuscripts from the first Islamic century. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a39cce8e-9eb7-42e0-a978-49f342079783) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpcN4VN2DeI
- **2025-12-04**, Inside the Arctic World Archive. Conference session on the vault in a Svalbard coal mine storing data on film for institutions worldwide, designed to survive without power or maintenance for centuries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/83e507f3-4cf1-4dfe-b7a4-8f914d29fcfe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NOATdwoHg
- **2025-12-06**, The one page of the Voynich we can read. Voynich Talk examines folio 116v, the section written in recognisable script, and why it is still hard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3ae2ca32-48b3-4688-9de6-f963a5aad983) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnGBl5usAMM
- **2025-12-06**, Spain and Franco nostalgia. ARTE examines how Spain handles the memory of the dictatorship, including its cultural controls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/37303eca-8534-4dc5-983f-aa5dee17d2db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1HhkYl4ng
- **2025-12-06**, How the world's most expensive colour is made. A report on ultramarine from lapis lazuli, the pigment that dominated the economics of illumination until the synthetic version arrived in 1824. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f8b41895-5dc4-4f7f-8053-89f08b48741f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBjgngg6_bE
- **2025-12-10**, What books were actually burned in 1933. A detailed examination of the titles and authors targeted in the Nazi book burnings and how the lists were compiled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d28e6742-92f8-42de-8cac-634c0cd54e8f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ8LBO6PJOM
- **2025-12-12**, Charles Dickens: a short history. A London Review of Books segment on Dickens's career, including his serial publication and commercial success. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8410184f-30e1-437e-8f00-3616ad89b1b4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqDWgntIPQ
- **2025-12-12**, What happened to Book of the Month. An examination of the subscription book club model, its long history and its recent difficulties. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/86b73082-3357-411b-8a62-72d1cecc26a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VkhXymwZo
- **2025-12-18**, Panizzi Lectures 2025: plants, politics and print. British Library annual lecture series on books in their elements, this session on print in South Africa. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/574b0292-9b8d-4d56-a0aa-50999c0414ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOP1o2CD378
- **2025-12-19**, Panizzi Lectures 2025: insects and colonial archives. British Library lecture on postcolonial book history and the material fate of colonial archives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ca048d3a-4e7d-455c-8774-92891252592e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K124TSit-Q4
- **2025-12-26**, Audiobooks outsell e-books as format revenue grows. A publishing-news channel reports industry revenue figures showing audiobook growth overtaking e-book sales. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1e44d949-7082-4374-b86a-4698ac309a9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQQZ4KxBuo
### 2026
- **2026-01-03**, The first library in the world. Irving Finkel, filmed inside the British Museum, on the Assyrian library at Nineveh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b9d6da7f-346b-43fc-afc2-8e56fa43eb64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdTVwUvcLo
- **2026-01-08**, The American Library Association turns 150. A short film marking the anniversary of the professional body that has shaped American library reading since 1876. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/24668a5e-af09-4362-ad9b-b784344962ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5L_7MB8G3c
- **2026-01-08**, Gutenberg and the European invention of printing. A lecture on what Gutenberg actually invented, and why the type mould matters more than the press. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a58ecfea-f138-4cb9-89fc-d6f80525014c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePsdtN17uRk
- **2026-01-11**, Champa manuscript, later leaves. A Champa manuscript describes the early eighteenth-century social culture of the Champa community. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7c4878c5-6bf4-43e3-815e-b4e43b0a0093) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champa_manuscript_(DSCF0873).jpg
- **2026-01-11**, Champa manuscript, opening leaves. A Champa manuscript describes the early eighteenth-century social culture of the Champa community. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ffbda010-ebee-4a9f-a8b7-8c1ff65387c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champa_manuscript_(DSCF0875).jpg
- **2026-01-18**, Making a limp parchment binding. A demonstration of the limp parchment binding that became widespread for cheaper books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e10a4f4d-77c0-4857-a4ed-962f5dacccfd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F8_dmnyKq8
- **2026-01-26**, The ALA Youth Media Awards. The American Library Association's annual ceremony announcing the Newbery, Caldecott and other children's book awards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af95982c-960e-4bd4-97b3-281904107cb9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha0bqig7EbQ
- **2026-01-30**, Codex Sinaiticus. Photo of Codex Sinaiticus in its display case in the British Library in London, England [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/876d18be-edc5-425d-8ca5-27af67aa2ae3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Sinaiticus.jpg
- **2026-02-01**, Reading South African literature against censorship. An introduction to the South African novels suppressed under apartheid and why each was banned. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d855831-3937-4207-b236-60f1e9e96898) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnKv9Lyc3zQ
- **2026-02-04**, Ten years of the Vatican Library digital archive. A report on a decade of the project to digitise and preserve the Vatican's manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e4055f9e-8c75-4f6f-973b-d91508ae1f68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOM9NN-Vdo
- **2026-02-06**, A night inside the National Library of China. Walkthrough of the largest library in Asia in Beijing, and of the reading culture that keeps its halls full. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/fa9ea42a-105f-4a97-bfe4-2cd848307ff4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e10KjG8J0Y
- **2026-02-09**, The Epic of Atrahasis and the history of cuneiform. The Morgan Library presents a cuneiform tablet and the earliest forms of recorded text. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2d097bc5-7dc4-4dd2-9043-5a386456d273) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G95CmxL1UC0
- **2026-02-11**, Mesoamerican maguey paper. A Library of Congress conservator's research on maguey paper, its botanical origin and its regional manufacture. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/780bac26-71d4-41e1-94a6-08818d6f5f27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYruWQrsAi8
- **2026-02-20**, Vesalius and the anatomical atlas. The National Library of Medicine on the 1543 Fabrica: its scale, its illustrations, and why it changed how the body was pictured. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8dbfb77b-150a-4e65-82d7-fc845195cb01) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkzND5Cxmsk
- **2026-02-23**, Incunabula of the second printing revolution. A Grolier Club lecture on the earliest printed books and what the term incunabula actually covers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8b1f6421-7707-4343-8c13-3d2b88497939) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAgZccCUoM
- **2026-02-26**, The seven-day parchment process. A craft documentary following the full traditional sequence from raw skin to finished writing surface. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2b4b6238-6fb6-4dcc-bc65-88a7f1da3ee3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGTmBJF7Eg0
- **2026-02-26**, Why the court banned the textbook. An analysis of the reasoning behind the Indian textbook restriction and the objections to it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/26c5949a-150b-44eb-be70-7eacdd631562) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR8xrVKXW3g
- **2026-02-26**, India's Supreme Court bans a school textbook. A news report on the Indian Supreme Court restricting an NCERT textbook chapter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/74fab79b-4e8c-439b-be24-9bd7675866e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTpaoa-xU4
- **2026-02-26**, Inside a print-on-demand book factory. How a single-copy print-on-demand book is produced, printed, bound and shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e482fda1-ac4b-4656-a34c-c15fc3562ef9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qICkoDU5vKQ
- **2026-02-28**, AI reads a sealed Roman scroll. A PBS segment on the first text recovered from inside an unopened Herculaneum scroll. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f913104e-6b14-4689-a491-e9529c72bf70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mo0T8h4I3o
- **2026-03-03**, Reading the Dresden Codex. Detailed walk through the Maya bark-paper screenfold held in Dresden, whose Venus and eclipse tables encode centuries of astronomical observation. It is the most complete of the four surviving Maya books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bcdbcd3d-1a59-40df-9214-ad3a4ad554ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNC8IiE6_gQ
- **2026-03-03**, Why were these books banned?. HistoryExtra examines specific banned titles and the stated reasons in each case. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e274509a-4f53-4a32-a55c-6cf801c3c4c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJ0i_FFg14
- **2026-03-16**, The blocked merger and the book industry. A District of Columbia Bar panel analyses the antitrust case that stopped Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e579c977-322e-411f-902f-8796928f49bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqG-_ePyUQw
- **2026-03-17**, How libraries address mass incarceration. An ALA book-club discussion on library services and reading access for incarcerated people. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/77d619b0-1f22-4ac2-8e49-b16e64fe753e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_af-rW1CA
- **2026-03-22**, Samizdat: how Soviet citizens escaped censorship. A Cold War history documentary on the clandestine reproduction and circulation of banned texts in the USSR. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/819fbeca-953f-4ccf-8cf3-feb8a985946a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMx3iBf73_0
- **2026-03-27**, Television under Franco. A documentary on Spanish broadcasting under Franco, and the censorship apparatus that governed all media. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/28f9b26f-d142-4692-b597-d183bbfd7976) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Ujz7AJy-c
- **2026-04-01**, Exploring space through rare books. Library of Congress curators present early printed books on astronomy and space from the collection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a96231ed-a525-411f-b1cf-8d0ebbd855d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX2LcZIejGI
- **2026-04-04**, How penny-serial vampires improved literacy. A history series arguing that cheap Victorian serial fiction expanded the reading public. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c56d053e-5f2a-4c51-9bf3-1fe553eff2a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPiLErl2qk
- **2026-04-07**, Casting type on Monotype and Linotype. C.C. Stern Type Foundry volunteers cast type for a poetry project on both hot-metal systems. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/73f697b3-1a4d-4239-997a-3b1827325775) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oXKXl-4An4
- **2026-04-08**, Exlibris XB 4831 UB Mannheim. Exlibris für Maurice Guibert; Exlibris für Julia und Julius Willstaedter. Das Bild zeigt zwei unterschiedliche Werke. Das obere Exlibris zeigt den bekannten französischen Maler Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in einer japanischen Karikatur. Basis für das Exlibris ist eine Fotografie des Exlibrisinhabers Maurice Guibert, der Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec so portraitierte. Das Exlibris in blau wurde von einem [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/de886026-d893-457e-95e6-dcf80870c10b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exlibris_XB_4831_UB_Mannheim.jpg
- **2026-04-09**, The Book-of-the-Month Club launches. A short history of the 1926 founding of the subscription club that reshaped how Americans chose books. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/466e127d-aec1-43ef-9922-d27dfb4a6bb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZspIH8DRgY0
- **2026-04-13**, Macmillan's CEO on what publishing looks like now. An editor summarises remarks by Macmillan's chief executive on the current state of trade publishing and what it means for authors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/31c64547-6e2d-4c9a-95de-6970a2aed604) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7z9nGMplAQ
- **2026-04-15**, The role of x-height in word recognition. A research paper on how x-height affects how quickly letters and words are recognised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d1c38a09-80ae-4f5d-b80d-997a0f223559) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHCcb18Wg74
- **2026-04-16**, Gandhi's printing press in Durban. A lecture on the press Gandhi ran in South Africa and what it says about print in the Indian Ocean world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/21b81105-0b52-465c-9c43-1260b6efd1bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTAnGOUZ_M
- **2026-04-20**, Book bans remain at record highs, ALA says. The Associated Press reports the American Library Association's annual count of challenged and removed titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b10255cc-4245-4a92-878d-f3e07e292497) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsP5mWmmvRM
- **2026-04-21**, The medieval scriptorium, reviewed. A discussion of Sara J. Charles's history of the scriptorium and what recent scholarship says about how monastic book production actually worked. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8bea549d-43a0-4766-a64f-e1307d36d2e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIgzkfa85RU
- **2026-04-26**, The First Folio: the book that saved Shakespeare. A documentary on the compilation, financing and printing of the 1623 collected plays. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/789c51d6-45d2-4b22-ad66-4e35031cef18) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS0TO9w-9rg
- **2026-04-27**, Restoring Armenian manuscript pastedowns. Conservators from the Matenadaran present their treatment of pastedowns in Armenian bindings at a Baltic conservation triennial. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1b8a75d0-f10b-4457-afff-4abf38378a05) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IfcklwRDh8
- **2026-04-28**, The Internet Archive in peril. A 2026 account of how AI crawling and litigation are threatening the Internet Archive. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cb9b52f7-0f09-4255-bfd2-22a42b90c606) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLhQe1_X_Ws
- **2026-04-29**, Censoring publications in twentieth-century Ireland. A lecture on the Irish register of prohibited publications and the reasoning recorded by its censors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/315e37f2-9100-4662-a567-5ad5fb25f68e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HooeOtcys
- **2026-05-01**, A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest resurfaces. RFI report on a long-missing leaf of the palimpsest identified in a fine arts museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/413292de-38cb-44b8-ac36-f5c09566cbd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJONiDeHwSw
- **2026-05-01**, Beyond banned books: censoring African diasporic literature. A panel on which books get challenged and the arguments made for and against removal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/6a41c13b-6e19-4239-bc8c-24041e0b4145) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZkbcXBOi6o
- **2026-05-04**, "The Source," a new experiential research gallery for children, teens and families at the Library of Congress. 9, 2026. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply. Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d99e017e-d9cb-4213-929e-23fe68c67d3d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_Source,%22_a_new_experiential_research_gallery_for_children,_teens_and_families_at_the_Library_of_Congress_in_May_2026_-_10.jpg
- **2026-05-04**, 150 years of the Comstock laws. A historical society panel on the Comstock Act's long afterlife in American obscenity law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/492e2120-4fa8-4a2f-ba69-b86789ffd937) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q95HLDMXKM
- **2026-05-05**, Can a court ban a book in India?. A legal explainer on the powers Indian courts have over publications, using the NCERT case. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/90362457-8136-42ce-a492-e58467ae220f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odIIoEDpVE
- **2026-05-08**, The story behind the Carnegie libraries. A 2026 local news report on the surviving Carnegie library buildings and their current use. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ef171f2a-db6d-4178-b1a9-6d765795ff50) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOV5g-zVQpY
- **2026-05-12**, Soviet samizdat: imagining a new society. Scholar Ann Komaromi on samizdat as a system: how texts were retyped, circulated and read in the USSR. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/2990853d-acf7-439d-9ba9-b992ef55bb5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTo1SSGD5Q0
- **2026-05-25**, Traditional publishing's quarterly numbers. A publishing-news channel reviews reported quarterly results for the major trade houses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/103eddeb-e6f9-4c0a-a0d4-7e13af8d7f94) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTV2vNr9sS4
- **2026-05-29**, Masterpieces of Ottoman calligraphy. A walk through the Topkapi Palace calligraphy collection and its thousands of rare Islamic manuscripts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f38573ab-d8a7-4e3a-98b9-ab6241b35c51) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-n7Z22X_08
- **2026-06-01**, The dark history of the Jaffna library burning. A Tamil-language documentary assembling witness testimony about the 1981 arson. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/463ffe5a-4345-4287-880a-550316daf669) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LT6V27M9og
- **2026-06-01**, Codex Sinaiticus: the oldest complete New Testament. Detailed manuscript talk on the 4th-century Greek Bible found at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, now split between four institutions, and what its corrections reveal about how the text was copied. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4bcb743e-27b5-4556-9985-00251acc535f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhxu7cZgsVA
- **2026-06-09**, Writers underground: Soviet samizdat, 1967-1982. A history podcast on the network of typists and readers who circulated banned manuscripts in the USSR. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8eb84aed-64d6-42fd-93f3-071623088d64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk1q0E3NyOM
- **2026-06-11**, Inside the Index of Forbidden Books. A discussion of how the Index worked, who administered it and what was actually on it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a5819d9c-91bc-42f7-bd99-c4343b2b1fd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u5r17M09s
- **2026**, FCU - Librería. A bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/708317d2-d65c-432e-a0de-7aa9d738ed5c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FCU_-_Librer%C3%ADa.jpg
- **2026**, Arty Bees Books. A second-hand bookshop. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/76782aa6-3c64-4502-b953-aa027662c63e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arty_Bees_Books.jpg
- **2026**, Lead-made Chinese Movable Types, Hangzhou National Archives 112. Movable type, individual sorts of metal or wood assembled into a page. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/bedafb59-beae-4569-8551-15ee5da9f061) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lead-made_Chinese_Movable_Types,_Hangzhou_National_Archives_112.jpg
- **2026**, Cité eco presse billet 3. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/beee75d1-f205-4fed-99ba-d0d6d3e07ad7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cit%C3%A9_eco_presse_billet_3.jpg
- **2026**, Cité eco presse billet 2. A printing press. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cfd30b74-351c-4a55-8e7a-4b1955becebb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cit%C3%A9_eco_presse_billet_2.jpg
- **2026**, Replica metal print plate of Jikji Shimche Yojeol. The Jikji, printed in Korea in 1377 with movable metal type, 78 years before the Gutenberg Bible. Modern photograph. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d08ff80d-9958-4140-9a0b-93dd65e1bf04) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Replica_metal_print_plate_of_Jikji_Shimche_Yojeol.jpg
- **2026-06-16**, Banned books and freedom of expression. A Gresham College lecture surveying the history and legal theory of book banning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/67a22906-0f5f-4a32-b67e-d69fd7c7e56f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZCvvyNJ1f4
- **2026-06-18**, A discussion of The Librarians. A 2026 panel discussion of Kim Snyder's documentary profiling American librarians under pressure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9239492d-5451-4cf9-af00-38c9cde46b77) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJexq0yHunU
- **2026-06-23**, The science of reading comprehension. A Harvard Graduate School of Education session with researchers on what is known about how comprehension develops. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/a93cfc74-7069-44e3-9301-150fdfd017d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGHoyjrgAM
- **2026-06-23**, Ibrahim Muteferrika brings printing to the Ottoman Empire. On the Hungarian-born convert who established Ottoman Turkish printing in the 1720s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1625d026-ab65-484e-b69b-8cd1d68b2eb2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQF1XdZ7GTU
- **2026-06-25**, Creative dissent against censorship. Burmese artists and writers on the strategies they use to publish around official restrictions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/01ef8704-c536-4826-aada-9963f5e621d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8pchJgUekk
- **2026-06-28**, What the unrolled Vesuvius scroll actually means. An archaeologist assesses the first fully unrolled Herculaneum scroll and the wider set of imaging projects it belongs to. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1c1236af-df30-4f5d-8003-350b8372481c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rF_5_eyIk
- **2026-06-29**, A Herculaneum scroll, burned and saved. Greg Lanier walks through the background of the effort to decipher the Vesuvius-charred scrolls. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/47f6a836-a1f8-45ec-a13e-3b9a871e6048) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3qQO_vRTE
- **2026-07-04**, Lady Chatterley: scandal and courtroom. The publishing history of the novel and the arguments the defence used to win. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/f6868f81-1c2a-497c-b65f-850aa1a30707) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RH4WnscK-g
- **2026-07-05**, The rise and fall of the paperback book. An account of the mass-market paperback as a format, its boom decades and its contraction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d5aea44b-dddd-4c05-8473-93334aac7706) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNQdLEpDF0
- **2026-07-10**, Reader, Come Home as a university pre-read. Princeton on choosing Maryanne Wolf's book about deep reading and digital distraction for its incoming class. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/c878f24b-3dcd-4959-b6bb-a5679c7c08f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJ5gVLQTIs
- **2026-07-15**, The rise of the post-literate society. DW News examines evidence that sustained reading is declining and what researchers make of the trend. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/89aa0bee-c09f-4deb-9f33-31aca1b0b521) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6t-BBQ8fUQ
- **2026-07-15**, Why fewer Americans read for pleasure. PBS NewsHour examines survey data showing a long decline in reading for pleasure and what may explain it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/948a6a1c-e19c-4e18-adb7-7c123f561c74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0a2PnLzUQs
- **2026-07-15**, The Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared. A report on the detention of Hong Kong booksellers who sold politically sensitive titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/093eb285-9b07-4252-80f5-ffde7c00aaaa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7MchoN2R8
- **2026-07-24**, Book trade news: bestsellers and an AI book-award controversy. A roundup of current publishing news including sales figures and a dispute over an AI-assisted book winning an award. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/72bb46d4-707a-40db-ba66-af2b670a8015) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W83BAVPTaZw
- **2026-07-28**, Lady Chatterley's Lover on trial. A history podcast on the trial as a political and legal event, not just a literary one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/3b85dd32-b6dc-4d99-9a36-c0e9a262c833) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC0z1JT-alI
- **2026-07-31**, TU Delft Library. A 2026 study of the Delft library building you walk over rather than into. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/d3d3d5f3-d839-46ee-a638-9aeab944cae1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfgBn-6XCY
- **2026-08-02**, The national library of Sarajevo. A history of the library's collections, its destruction and what could not be replaced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af9abe96-bbaf-4a85-a726-1e99a322494c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRE0vnwsabQ
- **2026-08-03**, Stuttgart City Library. A 2026 study of the Stuttgart library's cube-within-a-cube plan and what it does to reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/e048ec70-3788-4984-b834-307082fb9a1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZbkyTpKBg
- **2026-08-04**, The Vatican Apostolic Library. A visual essay on the library's structure, its holdings and its survival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/15c1ec1a-d135-41a3-8712-e9cff1710ba2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5CrBWT8j60
- **2026-08-04**, The last night a newspaper was set in hot metal. An account of the final hot-metal newspaper composition and the moment the trade ended. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/5fb9decd-9628-4bba-a5d2-29c8d1c9c90d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEizNMkJGC8
- **2026-08-05**, Scriptorium. Revista Mensual. Col·lecció del Museu Etnogràfic de Ripoll 14. Scriptorium. Revista Mensual. Col·lecció del Museu Etnogràfic de Ripoll [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/faf581c3-06c8-4903-9375-ef3e2ad5e265) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scriptorium._Revista_Mensual._Col%C2%B7lecci%C3%B3_del_Museu_Etnogr%C3%A0fic_de_Ripoll_14.jpg
- **2026-08-06**, Forged in fire: the Jefferson collection. A 2026 seminar on the Jefferson collection at the Library of Congress and what fire did to it twice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/1d3b42bf-9bc9-49e4-ac30-31b82bf48b11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZLqTpvB9g
- **2026-08-07**, Television in communist Romania. A documentary on Romanian broadcasting under Ceausescu and the censorship regime that governed all media. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7fc2cbd9-4559-4310-86ca-5486f226075e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ael5Iuqqfxg
- **2026-08-08**, The printmakers of Kolkata. A documentary on Kolkata's surviving letterpress printing houses and the trade that grew from colonial-era presses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/247ecbee-cae0-4f8e-b5c6-7009936b4112) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubctWVByxyU
- **2026-08-08**, The scattering of the Yongle Dadian. Account of how the Ming imperial encyclopedia was lost, fire, theft, and the 1900 sacking of Beijing, leaving only a few hundred of its 11,095 volumes, now spread across collections worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/af97858d-743b-4cb5-8805-aff812f3d9e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRnUS2XzSU
- **2026-08-09**, Bookstores: a CBS Sunday Morning collection. A compilation of CBS Sunday Morning reports on American bookshops and the people who run them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7b2f8955-9e38-4cd9-9cef-0577f8a7002c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBTG5Cd93o
- **2026-08-10**, Massachusetts signs a Freedom to Read law. A local news report on state legislation intended to limit book removals from libraries and schools. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/ed94b320-8472-4762-a822-06839ea3279f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BpeT6gD9c
- **2026-08-11**, Alexandria was not burned down in a night. A sober treatment arguing the library's end was a slow process of neglect, defunding and dispersal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9362a4e0-c3d3-457b-b7f6-ddb0970d5d28) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwgQk6PIT8
- **2026-08-11**, 2.4 million Afghan girls shut out of school. Reuters on UNESCO's estimate of girls excluded from secondary education in Afghanistan since 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/4aa3b6e7-588d-4fe8-b8e7-afdb58e15934) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eUNsYFlM4
- **2026-08-11**, Tibetan manuscript and xylography. An introduction to the Tibetan book: manuscript production, block printing, and the Kangyur and Tengyur as archival systems. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/9ce1240f-9f97-423d-8f72-972753bd9966) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08lMUjL0xc
- **2026-08-13**, Censoring books in schools and libraries. A Centre for Free Expression panel on what school and library censorship means for the future of reading. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/7faf5dfc-3b66-4e19-ab72-d23f92704f0f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJJMOxFdTK4
- **2026-08-13**, Europe's AI rules reach authors worldwide. A publishing-news podcast covers how EU AI transparency requirements affect authors and publishers outside Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/8a0a108b-9b3a-4d25-acdd-a9f85d6f5395) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7hskWGurDU
- **2026-08-16**, Libraries don't die in a day. A long-form account of the Library of Alexandria that rejects the single-fire myth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cad827ff-9b69-4927-ae15-5ac86709d330) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXLl1xyVJ4
- **2026-08-18**, AI firms are buying and destroying antique books. Forbes reports on AI companies acquiring old and rare printed books in order to digitise them for training data. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/16cb1e7e-49f0-46e7-8e25-17fd52167f88) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAslxexwhOU
- **2026-08-19**, AI companies are buying and destroying books to scan them. CBS News covers a 404 Media investigation finding that AI firms buy print books, cut the spines off and scan the pages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/cf659c9c-7fb8-43fb-b560-7c3c0c338099) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1FZzhp5aw
- **2026-08-20**, The novel written on toilet paper in prison. On Ngugi wa Thiong'o, detained without trial in Kenya, who wrote a novel in Gikuyu on prison toilet paper. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/books/scene/b8b63252-deb9-4e5a-a20e-bc298e9b5337) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIJ9FuMxko

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