This collection features twelve studies on bookbinding structures and practices from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, focusing on lesser-explored Portuguese, Estonian, and Slovenian materials. It begins with contributions on bookbinding databases, emphasizing the need for a shared terminology for better compatibility. Anja Dular examines historical life and labor conditions in Carniola during the early post-medieval period. Georgios Boudalis challenges the notion of "Coptic" origins for Early Christian bindings and highlights the documentary expressiveness of book images in early medieval art. Ines Correia presents extensive research on 15 illuminated manuscripts from the Portuguese monastery of Lorvão, analyzing restorative procedures. Rita Castro and colleagues investigate re-bound Romanesque manuscripts from the Santa Cruz monastery in Coimbra. Carlo Federici and Melania Zanetti explore the bindings of books printed by Aldo Manutius, concluding he did not have a preferred bookbinder. Nataša Golob discusses recognizing individual bookbinders through fragment reuse, while Liia Rebane examines the work of Tallinn bookbinder Gerth Kulemann, noting his transition from Gothic to Renaissance styles. Rita Araújo addresses the structural issues and seamanship iconography in Portuguese Books of Hours. The volume concludes with studies by Jedert Vodopivec Tomažič on Johann Weichard Valvasor's bindings and Blanka Avguštin Florjano
