There was a time when the printed book was high tech, Robin Sloan reminded people at the Friends of Rowan Public Library Thursday evening. Sloan knows about words and technology. His book, “Mr.

The University has received the first printed edition of Plato’s works in Greek. This book, inbound with cowskin vellum, was first printed in 1513 by Aldus Manutius, a Venetian printer and publisher.

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

At the end of the fifteenth century, fifty years after Gutenberg invented movable type, Greek literature was still being kept alive with handwritten manuscripts. As this fascinating exhibition reveals ...

Aldus Manutius is not a household name in the same way that his predecessor by a few decades, the printing-press visionary Johannes Gutenberg, is. Yet by all accounts Manutius (1455-1515) was the ...

Elettra Conoly (A’21) wants the students of Tufts to read more early printed books. Conoly works full time for Tisch Library’s Special Collections. She started her job at the end of January and works ...

Have you ever wondered when books as we know them today first took shape? An exhibition at the National Museum of World Writing Systems in Songdo, Incheon, sheds light on this question by introducing ...

Aldus Manutius would be so proud. The Italian printer left us more than five centuries ago, but he likely would have loved how a missing comma recently helped an Ohio woman get a parking violation ...

Aldus Manutius would be so proud. The Italian printer left us more than five centuries ago, but he likely would have loved how a missing comma once helped an Ohio woman get a parking violation ...