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Care and Conservation of Manuscripts
History: General History
Table of Contents
Preface
xi
Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson
Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection
1
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan
Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks. A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts
15
Jirí Vnoucek
Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so
27
Marieka Kaye
Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts
61
Chantal Kobel
The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts. A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337)
77
Sarah Kilroy
The Birmingham Qur?an manuscript. An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation
89
Kristine Rose-Beers
Preparing to conserve an early Qur?an manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book
107
Nil Baydar
Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century. Kashf al-Bayan an Sifat al-Hayawan
135
Rebecca Honold
Same, same but different. The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel
159
Julia Poirier
A short review of Samaritan binding practices. A closer look at wooden endband plate structure
177
Georgios Boudalis
The codex and crafts in late antiquity
199
Giada Genua & Marco Di Bella
Codex Ms02. Conservation of a restoration
217
Gayane Eliazyan & al.
The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
233
Jasdip Singh Dhillon
Sikh codices. The development of a conservation approach
245
Maria Rosaria Castelletti, Marta Grimaccia & Silvia Foschetti. Preservation and conservation of the Marega collection in the
Vatican Library. A multifaceted project
261
Nancy K. Turner & Catherine M. Schmidt Patterson
Documenting interventions in manuscript illuminations with macro-XRD scanning
279
Alessandra Pasqualucci
Integrating multispectral and thermographic imaging techniques to recover hidden details in deteriorated parchment manuscripts
289
Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge
Illuminating Bernward. Some results of an art technological analysis of manuscripts from Ottonian Hildesheim
303
Diana Avelar Pires
Moments of transformation as moments for learning. The conservation treatment of an account book from 1508
323
Aida Pereira Nunes
Behind the scenes of the exhibition ‘The Lisbon that could have been’
349
Jane Eagan
Conservation in the round and up a spiral staircase. Preserving a collection and a medieval space
365
Christine McNair & al.
The Salzinnes Antiphonal project continued. Treatment and exhibition of a sixteenth-century liturgical manuscript
381
Cathie Magee
The conservation of the Saint Francis Missal. Modern materials used to revive a relic
395
Andrew Honey
Practice makes perfect?. Lessons learnt from the binding of the Winchester Bible
415
Barbara Wills & al.
Conserving, analysing and studying the ‘Hay cookbook’. Revelations from ancient ‘magical’ texts on leather
431
Justine Provino
A medieval monster book. History, treatment and rebinding of the Fountains Abbey bestiary (MS M. 890)
449
Nikolas Sarris, Zoitsa Gkinni & Christina Tsaroucha
Moving the manuscripts of the National Library of Greece to a new home
463
Solange FitzGerald
The conservation of textile linings and seal cords with a little help from textile and painting conservation
481
Anna-Arietta Revithi, Konstantinos Choulis & Efthymia
Mikropoulou. A long-stitch structure with an unusual decoration
495
Caroline Riberaigua & Marie Messager
Codicology and conservation issues of the Asian palm-leaf manuscripts of the Collège de France, Paris
511
Eve Menei & Laurence Caylux
Conservation of the great medical papyrus Louvre E32847
535
Jennifer Evers & Gwenanne Edwards
Adaptations of iron gall ink protocols. The conservation treatment of an American Revolutionary War diary
547
Cédric Lelièvre
Dust to dust? Spine reshaping implications on ledger bindings
563
Nikki Tomkins
Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch. Conservation documentation of a seventeenth-century library
585
Paul Hepworth & Karin Scheper
Communicating about Islamic manuscripts
597
Miriam Rampazzo
Venetian sunk-panel binding and ‘Commissioni dogali’. A historical and technical introduction
611
Vania Assis
Unfolding Tangut’s lost world. Preserving Tangut fragments from the Stein Collection at the British Library
629
Konstantina Konstantinidou & al.
The conservation of Paul Hermann’s seventeenth-century Sri Lankan drawings. A unique volume with many challenges
647
Marco Di Bella & Nikolas Sarris
The conservation of a fifteenth-century large parchment manuscript of Gädlä säma?tat from the monastery of ?Ura Mäsqäl. Further conservation experiences from East Tigray,
Ethiopia
663
List of participants at the conference
693
Index of manuscripts
705
xi
Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson
Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection
1
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan
Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks. A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts
15
Jirí Vnoucek
Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so
27
Marieka Kaye
Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts
61
Chantal Kobel
The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts. A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337)
77
Sarah Kilroy
The Birmingham Qur?an manuscript. An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation
89
Kristine Rose-Beers
Preparing to conserve an early Qur?an manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book
107
Nil Baydar
Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century. Kashf al-Bayan an Sifat al-Hayawan
135
Rebecca Honold
Same, same but different. The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel
159
Julia Poirier
A short review of Samaritan binding practices. A closer look at wooden endband plate structure
177
Georgios Boudalis
The codex and crafts in late antiquity
199
Giada Genua & Marco Di Bella
Codex Ms02. Conservation of a restoration
217
Gayane Eliazyan & al.
The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
233
Jasdip Singh Dhillon
Sikh codices. The development of a conservation approach
245
Maria Rosaria Castelletti, Marta Grimaccia & Silvia Foschetti. Preservation and conservation of the Marega collection in the
Vatican Library. A multifaceted project
261
Nancy K. Turner & Catherine M. Schmidt Patterson
Documenting interventions in manuscript illuminations with macro-XRD scanning
279
Alessandra Pasqualucci
Integrating multispectral and thermographic imaging techniques to recover hidden details in deteriorated parchment manuscripts
289
Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge
Illuminating Bernward. Some results of an art technological analysis of manuscripts from Ottonian Hildesheim
303
Diana Avelar Pires
Moments of transformation as moments for learning. The conservation treatment of an account book from 1508
323
Aida Pereira Nunes
Behind the scenes of the exhibition ‘The Lisbon that could have been’
349
Jane Eagan
Conservation in the round and up a spiral staircase. Preserving a collection and a medieval space
365
Christine McNair & al.
The Salzinnes Antiphonal project continued. Treatment and exhibition of a sixteenth-century liturgical manuscript
381
Cathie Magee
The conservation of the Saint Francis Missal. Modern materials used to revive a relic
395
Andrew Honey
Practice makes perfect?. Lessons learnt from the binding of the Winchester Bible
415
Barbara Wills & al.
Conserving, analysing and studying the ‘Hay cookbook’. Revelations from ancient ‘magical’ texts on leather
431
Justine Provino
A medieval monster book. History, treatment and rebinding of the Fountains Abbey bestiary (MS M. 890)
449
Nikolas Sarris, Zoitsa Gkinni & Christina Tsaroucha
Moving the manuscripts of the National Library of Greece to a new home
463
Solange FitzGerald
The conservation of textile linings and seal cords with a little help from textile and painting conservation
481
Anna-Arietta Revithi, Konstantinos Choulis & Efthymia
Mikropoulou. A long-stitch structure with an unusual decoration
495
Caroline Riberaigua & Marie Messager
Codicology and conservation issues of the Asian palm-leaf manuscripts of the Collège de France, Paris
511
Eve Menei & Laurence Caylux
Conservation of the great medical papyrus Louvre E32847
535
Jennifer Evers & Gwenanne Edwards
Adaptations of iron gall ink protocols. The conservation treatment of an American Revolutionary War diary
547
Cédric Lelièvre
Dust to dust? Spine reshaping implications on ledger bindings
563
Nikki Tomkins
Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch. Conservation documentation of a seventeenth-century library
585
Paul Hepworth & Karin Scheper
Communicating about Islamic manuscripts
597
Miriam Rampazzo
Venetian sunk-panel binding and ‘Commissioni dogali’. A historical and technical introduction
611
Vania Assis
Unfolding Tangut’s lost world. Preserving Tangut fragments from the Stein Collection at the British Library
629
Konstantina Konstantinidou & al.
The conservation of Paul Hermann’s seventeenth-century Sri Lankan drawings. A unique volume with many challenges
647
Marco Di Bella & Nikolas Sarris
The conservation of a fifteenth-century large parchment manuscript of Gädlä säma?tat from the monastery of ?Ura Mäsqäl. Further conservation experiences from East Tigray,
Ethiopia
663
List of participants at the conference
693
Index of manuscripts
705