Just yesterday afternoon Mrs. Rolda
Hillen was cleaning out her attic when she found the only known copy of Istaborn Tiberfoots Memoirs. It had ceased being printed around 1510. Until today there were no copies. Mrs. Hillen described how she discovered it.
"I was watching my attic clean itself, and I noticed a box full of old books. In that box was a book with a dark blue leather binding and gold lettering that spelled out 'The Memoirs of Istaborn Tiberfoot'. I remembered hearing that the book was considered lost. I grabbed it and, by using the floo network, I took it to Flourish and Blotts. They were overjoyed to see a copy of the book. I let them put it in there vault for safe keeping. Using a spell, they began making copies of it. And they believe it was the original book I had, and not just a copy."
Mrs. Hillen is a Tiberfoot, though her late husband Roalf was a Hillen. She believes that it must have been passed down from generation to generation, and she just didn't know she had it. Flourish and Blotts says they are in fact going to begin selling copies of the book again.
The book has never before read stories about Istaborn. It also gives hints to where the village of Stathford was located when it existed. But its location is still somewhat a mystery. The book was believed to be finished around 1490.
How do we know that he had a memoirs? Well in the book Hogwarts Today (1500) it talks about Istaborn Tiberfoot. It tells how he was the first headmaster to write a memoirs. It also quotes it:
"Istaborn told his life story in his memoirs. He explained what life was like as headmaster 'Hogwarts headmasters don't have it easy. You are very busy. Once I was awake for two days straight catching up on things that happened over the holidays' ".
We also gathered that it was out of production after 1510, as according to records in Flourish and Blotts. Those records also list it being on sale there. Furthermore they also gave the name that Hogwarts Today failed to mention.
(Daily Prophet excerpt from January 16, 2017 issue)