Mapping Early Modern Quiring: Data Mining the Anet Database of Handpress Books

This paper documents the methodology used to digitally map early modern quiring patterns through the analysis of a corpus of bibliographic metadata about hand press books from the period 1471-1861. It describes the application of an algorithm that registers the presence of a certain quiring and the ensuing results, mainly relating quiring to chronological (century) and bibliographic factors (format). In conclusion, the interpretation and future analysis of these results for the study of book history is discussed.