On 1 October 2025 the BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) Project celebrated the publication of its 3,000th Document Record, a mere 16 months after achieving the 2,000 milestone. This increase represents an average of more than two new records per day! Such spectacular growth is due largely to the dedication and expertise of the project’s student Content Team, which has been meeting on a weekly basis in addition to the biweekly plenary meetings of the full BASIRA team. Each new record represents an incremental advance to knowledge and discovery in the field of book history, and is reviewed by one or more other team members to ensure completeness and conformity to the complex BASIRA descriptive schema.

The 3000th record represents a Scroll held by Saint John the Evangelist a depiction ofin Saint John the Evangelist by Valentin de Boulogne in the Ackland Art Museum.