Gutenberg Yearbook

Gutenberg Yearbook 2022

After almost 30 years, the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2022 is the last to be published under the editorship of Prof. Dr Stephan Füssel. Prof. Füssel had been editor of the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch since 1994 and he dedicated himself to this task with untiring commitment and dedication until the end.

In the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2022, 14 different contributions in three different languages (German, English, French) deal with the latest developments and discoveries in early printing and other topics of book research on a total of 287 pages. These include, for example, a contribution by this year's Gutenberg Prize winner Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger of Harvard University entitled "Between Basel and Lyon: Bernhard Richel, Martin Huss and a Possible Printer's Vade Mercum (The Morgan Library & Museum, Ms M.158)". In it, Prof. Hamburger examines the results of the study of the compendium MS M.158 in New York's Morgan Library & Museum, which was partly printed and partly handwritten. Also worthy of mention is the contribution by Sven Behnke, Matthias Bley, Matthias Bollmeyer and Detlef Haberland, which is devoted to a spectacular find in the Landesbibliothek Oldenburg – you can read more about it under item 4 News from the Book World.

As always, the design with the special dust jacket in summery colours is strikingly new: For the 97th volume, Prof. Ralf de Jong from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen chose the sans serif Comma Base by Martin Majoor as the typeface. De Jong presents the typeface, which was used not only for the content but also for the cover design, in a separate essay.

The Gutenberg Yearbook is the central scientific publication organ of international Gutenberg research. It was founded in 1926 by Aloys Ruppel on behalf of the Gutenberg Society and has been published by the Society ever since.

The Gutenberg Yearbook contains international specialist articles in German, English, French, Italian or Spanish. The academic editor of the Yearbook is Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer of the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media (Department of Book Studies) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

In addition to contributions on the life and work of Johannes Gutenberg and the results of incunabulum research, the yearbook covers a wide range of topics: the history of printing from its beginnings to the present day, the history of paper, the history of libraries, the history of the book trade and publishing, the history of type, modern typesetting and printing processes, developments in typography and new media, book illustration, book binding, newspapers and the press, literature reports on book printing and binding studies.

The high scientific quality of the articles and the appreciation of the printed book are further underlined by the careful typographic design and the high-quality layout of the yearbook. Outstanding typographers have been involved in the design of the Yearbook over the years, including Karl Klingspor, Christian Heinrich Kleukens, Max Caflisch and Ralf de Jong.

Members of the Gutenberg Society receive a free copy of the current yearbook every year.

Digital copies of the Gutenberg Yearbook

The volumes 1926 to 2017 are available fully digitised and can be viewed via the DigiZeitschriften portal at the following link: https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/toc/?PID=PPN366382810

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The Deadline is the 30 September in the previous year. The Gutenberg Yearbook is published annually around the 24 June.

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