Introduction to The Print in the Codex, Part 2 of a series

The following paper by Silvia Massa was first presented at a session sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America that I chaired on 10 February 2021 at the 109th College Art Association Annual Conference. Entitled ‘The Print in the Codex’, the session considered books transformed through the incorporation of independently printed images. This is the second of two papers from the session to appear in this journal; Sarah Schaefer’s study of the impact of extra-illustration on printing history, ‘Bibles Unbound: The Material Semantics of Nineteenth-Century Scriptural Illustration’, appeared in the June 2022 issue