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Title:Care & Conservation of Manuscripts, Volume 8 : Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 16th-17th October 2003
Series:(Care & Conservation of Manuscripts Series)
Author:Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (eds)
ISBN:8763502577 : 9788763502573
Illustrations:b/w tables & photos
Format:Paperback
Size:165x235mm
Pages:300
Weight: .69 Kg.
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - April 2005
List Price: 25 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Care & restoration of antiques: Antiques & collectables: books; manuscripts; ephem


Much work is required to ensure the well-being of the manuscripts in the care of our libraries, archives and other collections and the regular seminars in Copenhagen provide a good opportunity for conservators, archivists, librarians and those who work with manuscripts to meet and discuss their problems. The eighth seminar deals among other things with wooden bindings, the manufacture of parchment, the conservation of embroidered bindings, the study of paint layers, the restoration of heat-damage parchment, binding decoration and hand tools for Ottoman period manuscripts, biomonitering of rare books and documents, German stamped bindings, new recipes for the conservation of leather and parchment, as well as codicology and palæography. The book is well illustrated and contains references and a list of manuscripts.

Wooden Bindings and Tree-Rings. A Preliminary Report; Wood in the History of Medieval Book Techniques: Aims and Know-How -- First Restorations; Codex Scardensis: History and Restoration; New Projects for the Care and Conservation of the Manuscripts in the Vatican Library; The Manufacture of Parchment for Writing Purposes and the Observation of the Signs of manufacture Surviving in Old Manuscripts; Pens and Ink Through 2,000 Years -- A World of Words; The Examination and Conservation of a Medieval Manuscript with Embroidered Repairs: A Textile Binding Once the Library of Henry VIII -- Technical Examination and conservation; The Study of Materials Used for the Consolidation of the Pan Layer in Illuminated Manuscripts; Conservation Treatments of a Heat-Damaged Parchment Manuscript; Kodikologie und Restaurierung -- der Kodex BPU Geneve Ms Gr 19; The Danish Connection: The Gotha Manuscript of Paul the Deacon and its History; The Census of Western Medieval Bookbinding Structures to 1500 in British Libraries, Stage One: Cambridge. A Final Report -- and a Glimpse of Some 'Treasures'; Conservation Aspects of Ottoman Period Manuscripts: Binding Decoration and Hand Tools for Making Bindings; Care and Conservation of Manuscripts at the Library of Congress: An Overview; Palaeography, Scribal Identification and the Study of Manuscript Characteristics; Biomonitoring of Rare Books and Archive Documents; Digital Ephemera -- Virtual Book History Exhibitions as Historical Resources; German Stamped Bindings from the Sixteenth Century on British Library Manuscripts: A Review; New Trends in the Care of Leather and Parchment.