Care and conservation of manuscripts 9: proceedings of the ninth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 14th-15th April 2005

Contents

Wooden bindings and tree-rings: a conclusion / Niels Bonde, Peter Springborg -- 'Publish or perish': Early Arnamagnæan editions as a means to the care and conservation of manuscripts / Ragnheiđur Mósesdóttir -- Persian miniature and its conervatin / Ted Stanley -- Documentation and conservation of an Islamic manuscript from the eleventh centure / Nil Baydar -- Perservation ethics and practical digitization / Lara Artemis, Tony Bish -- Conservation of a thriteenth-century Biblia Sacra Latine / Jessica Baldwin, John Gillis -- Conservation of Parker MSS 16 and 26 "The Chronica Majora' / Melvin Jefferson -- Story of the Prague fragment of St. Mark's gospel through fourteen centuries: a new approach to an established narrative / Marke Suchý, Jiří Vnouček -- Report on a theft of books, a non-fiction detective story / Jesper Düring Jørgensen -- Medieval Danish bindings / Magdalena L. Midtgaard -- Conservation of leather bindings damaged by mould / Valeria Kobyakova -- Man sieht nur as was man kennt: Schadensphänomene in Inkunabeln / Manfred Mayer -- Early care and conservation and the problems they produce / R.I. Page -- Preserving the past: England, Iceland and the movement of manuscripts / Pamela Porter -- Low energy air conditioning of archives / Tim Padfield, Poul Klenz Larsen -- Russian-Dutch project for the development of universal procedures for document heritage preservation and access / Svetlana Uspenskaya [and others] -- Exhibition conservation: luxury or necessity / Guy de Witte -- Museum Meermanno at the Hague and the Missale Trajectense / Jeff Clements.