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What’s a #genizah? In Judaism, it is forbidden to throw away writings containing the name of God. To store the texts prior to proper cemetery burial genizot are used. Here is a contemporary genizah of the Grand Choral Synagogue in Saint Petersburg, Russia ibookbinding.com/blog/galleries…










Some examples of repairs on vellum manuscripts. Many thanks for finding them to @atelierlibri, Anna Jaworska, UppsalaUniLib instagram.com/p/CbvjuBDMLHn/…


For anyone interested in seeing a fledgling antiquarian bookseller take live interview questions for the first time in their life, I'll have a spot on iBookBinding this upcoming Wednesday, 12 PM EDT. Feel free to drop by. youtu.be/yB0Ku66DFi4




Huge thanks to Stepan Chizhov from iBookBinding & to Pavel Voronin for inviting me for a cosy chat about the printing department of the Industriemuseum Gent lnkd.in/eabdCaUC

