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Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18

Care and Conservation of Manuscripts is committed to the study of various aspects of manu­script conservation, preservation, and use, as well as to other related issues concerning the history of books and manuscripts.

The series is based on seminars held at the University of Copenhagen.
 

464 pages | 362 color plates, 17 halftones | 6.3 x 9.45 | © 2023

Care and Conservation of Manuscripts

History: General History

Library Science and Publishing: Library Science


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Table of Contents

Preface
ix

Amy Baldwin
Risen from the ashes. Balancing the historic and archival in the conservation of Charlotte Canning’s Indian journals
1

Penelope Banou & Angeliki Stassinou
Letters patent for the establishment of Roman Catholic confraternities in the seventeenth century in Greece. Typology, materials and aspects of preservation
15

Katherine Beaty & Kelli Piotrowski
From Florence to Rome. Conserving Italian stationery bindings at Harvard University
31

Marlen Börngen, Maike Linden, Bert Jacek & Andrea Pataki-Hundt
Naumburg choir books. Oversized wooden-board conservation
55

Cécile Brossard
Decorative remnants beneath a sixteenth-century Syriac binding
71

Lisa Camilleri
Fantastic features and where to find them. Title-tabs and other unique features of notarial bindings in Malta
89

Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
Book culture in north-western India. An insight into the production and materiality of Indic handwritten artefacts in the nineteenth century
103

Patricia Engel & Andreas Gamerith
Care and conservation in the Cistercian Abbey of Zwettl, Lower Austria. Monastic tradition addressing a modern problem
129

Fenella G. France & Andrew Forsberg
Accessible linked scholarly and scientific data-visualisation for manuscripts
147

Mary Hamilton French
Honouring the past while preparing for the future. Conservation of a fifteenth-century manuscript on the life of St. Augustine
163

Ina Fröhlich
An illuminated Egyptian manuscript from the seventeenth century. Codicology, ink and copper corrosion, conservation
181

Andrew Honey
Winchester’s binder. Beatrice Forder at work, 1947–1948

193

Silvia Hufnagel, Vasare Rastonis, Robert Fuchs & Andreas Herzog
Paper trails. Hyperspectral imaging of watermarks in Icelandic paper
213

Ariane Langreder
The challenges of a Romanesque rebinding. The Psalter of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
227

Heather Marshall
The conservation of an eleventh-century Greek codex. Its role as an artefact and a functioning binding
239

Ekaterina Pasnak
Sixteenth-century German-style bindings produced in Bergen from the University of Bergen Library
261

Gaia Petrella
Estense Digital Library. Preparing materials for digitisation
281

Silvia Pugliese, Michael B. Toth & Sara Gottoli
Scientific investigation and conservation
289

Abigail Quandt
Real or fake? Conservators, scientists and scholars join forces in debunking manuscript forgeries
315

Vasare Rastonis, Jirí Vnoucek & Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
The conservation of Flateyjarbók
349

Alessandro Scola
Conserving and preserving a fifteenth-century Italian antiphonary. Non-traditional binding conservation techniques and an innovative multifunctional device
371

Shaun Thompson, Cécilia Duminuco & Samuel Foley
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project. A collaborative digitisation project in progress
399

Lieve Watteeuw & Marina Van Bos
A manuscript for the head. The study and conservation of the thirteenth-century illuminated parchment mitre of Bishop Jacques de Vitry
417

Valentina Yañez Langner
Inter-agency collaborations for the preservation of choir books at the National Museum of Viceroyalty, Mexico
435

Index of manuscripts
451

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