Care and conservation of manuscripts 13: proceedings of the thirteenth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 13th-15th April 2011

Abstract

Care and Conservation of Manuscripts collects the best contemporary scholarship on the conservation, preservation, and use of historic manuscripts, often engaging issues surrounding the history of books and manuscripts as well. Volume 13 contains over thirty contributions by top scholars in the field. It covers an array of topics, including the conservation of two composite Anselm manuscripts from the twelfth century and the refurbishment of a group of medieval manuscripts in the library of Henry VIII. Richly illustrated, the journal sets a high standard for the study of manuscript preservation and management.

Contents

An artefactual philological study / Anne Mette Hansen -- The conservation and reconstruction of wax seals / Lin Rosa Spaabaek -- Documenting bindings and provenance in collections of old prints: A presentation of the ProBok project / Maria Berggren -- Die erste Internationale Konferenz zur Erhaltung und Ausbesserung alter Handschriften / Margit J. Smith -- Storing library collections: A workflow for packing and tracking items in the library of the St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai / Athanasios Velios -- Analysis of written material from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Lynn Brostoff -- Advanced non-invasive spectral imaging for the preservation of manuscripts at the Library of Congress / Fenella G. France -- Seeing through the cover: Studying decorated bookbindings at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai / Nikolas Sarris -- Decision making on the cutting edge: Dealing with waste material used in bookbinding / Femke Prinsen -- The paper in Jammers Minde / Ingelise Nielsen -- Between boon and bane: The use of chemical reagents in palimpsest research in the nineteenth century / Felix Albrecht -- The Salzinnes Antiphonal: The history and examination of a sixteenth-century liturgical manuscript / Judy Dietz -- The ornament: Identifying the origin of a sixteenth-century Slavonic manuscript / Marta Ursescu -- The conservation of an early sixteenth-century bound Greek manuscript: An insight into Byzantine bookbinding through conservation / Georgios Boudalis -- Unrolling a papyrus: Investigations into an extraordinary 3500-year-old Book of the Dead / Robert Fuchs -- The Prague Sacramentary: From manuscript folia back to animal skin / Marek Suchy -- Watermark research: New light on the English Reformation / Ian Christie-Miller -- Iron gall inks in Romanian manuscripts: Between recipes and effects / Gabriela Lisa -- Revelations of a thirteenth-century Bible: From archaeological evidence to digital display / Ines Correia -- The digitisation and conservation of the National Library of Finland's collection of Fragmenta membranea / Wiebke Marina Findeisen -- Multiple-strand bookmarkers and other book-connected textiles / Joy Boutrup -- Traditional or modern conservation materials and techniques? A case study of conservation methods during the binding of manuscripts at the Iranian Parliamentary Library / Kouros Samanian -- The Wellcome Library's Arabic manuscripts: New protocols for surveying and cataloguing in the digitisation process / Gillian Boal -- Fit for a king: Evidence of the refurbishment of a group of medieval manuscripts for the library of Henry VIII / Jane Eagan -- The conservation of two composite Anselm manuscripts from the twelfth century: Two contrasting approaches? / Andrew Honey -- A composite manuscript made by a composite man: Presentation of the conservation of eight manuscripts in a folder / Anne Melgard -- The devastating effects of adhesive tape: The conservation of a nineteenth-century Ottoman document / Georgia Iona -- Conservation of a selection of Islamic manuscripts from the National Library of Spain / Luz Diaz Galan -- From the master's hand? A study of the working methods of the Master of Catherine of Cleves / Francisco Trujillo -- Libri viatici: Protection and usage of portable books in medieval Poland / Jacek Tomaszewski -- Conservation of a fragment of a fourteenth-century illuminated French Bible: Tests of protein consolidants for flaking lead white pigment / Wladyslaw Sobucki -- 'Book in a Bog': The Faddan More Psalter, an update / John Gillis -- ̀The dog that barked in the night': The codex, clues and curatorial conundrums / Pamela Porter.