This blog provides reports, updates, information and analysis surrounding a new project, Sammelband 15-16, that studies the creation and use of Sammelbände in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. The extraordinary initial development of the printing industry has been carefully charted and analyzed. But many aspects of the volumes created as a result of this proliferation of printed texts are yet to be investigated.

Based at the University of Rennes, it is a collaborative project created with colleagues in other European universities such as the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and the University of Udine in Italy, as well as staff from the library world.