Preface

Anne Mette Hansen:

                AM 421 12mo: An artefactual philological study

Lin Rosa Spaabæk:

                The conservation and reconstruction of wax seals

Helena Strömquist & Maria Berggren:

                Documenting bindings and provenance in collections of old prints: A presentation of the ProBok project

Margit J. Smith:

                Die erste internationale Konferenz zur Erhaltung und Ausbesserung alter Handschriften

Caroline Bendix & Athanasios Velios:

                Storing library collections: A workflow for packing and tracking items in the library of the St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai

Jane E. Klinger & Lynn Brostoff:

                Analysis of written material from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fenella G. France:

                Advanced non-invasive spectral imaging for the preservation of manuscripts at the Library of Congress

Nikolas Sarris:

                Seeing through the cover: Studying decorated book bindings at the Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai

Fenke Prinsen:

                Decision making on the cutting edge: Dealing with waste material used in bookbinding

Ingelise Nielsen:

                The paper in Jammers Minde

Felix Albrecht:

                Between boon and bane: The use of chemical reagents in palimpsest research in the nineteenth century

Sherry Guild, Christine McNair, Lynn Curry, Geneviève Samson & Judy Dietz:

                The Salzines Antiphonal: The history and examination of a sixteenth-century liturgical manuscript

Oana Capatina, Ana-Maria Andrei & Marta Ursescu:

                The ornament: Identifying the origin of a sixteenth-century Slavonic manuscript

Georgios Boudalis:

                The conservation of an early sixteenth-century bound Greek manuscript: An insight into Byzantine bookbinding through conservation

Robert Fuchs:   

                Unrolling a papyrus: Investigations into an extraordinary 3500-year-old Book of the Dead

Jiří Vnouček & Marek Suchý:

                The Prague Sacramentary: From manuscript folia back to animal skin

Ian Christie-Miller:

                Watermark research: New light on the English Reformation

Marta Urescu, Sorin Ciovica, Teodor Malutan, Corina Malutan & Gabriela Lisa:

                Iron gall inks in Romanian manuscripts: Between recipes and effects

Inês Correia:

                Revelations of a thirteenth-century Bible: From archaeological evidence to digital display

Marleena Vihakara & Wiebke Marina Findeisen:

                The digitisation and conservation of the National Library of Finland’s collection of Fragmenta membranea

Joy Boutrup:

                Multiple-strand book markers and other book-connected textiles

Kouros Samanian:

                Traditional or modern conservation materials and techniques? A case study of conservation methods during the binding of manuscripts at the Iranian Parliamentary Library

Gilllian Boal:

                The Wellcome Library’s Arabic manuscripts: New protocols for surveying and cataloguing in the digitisation process

Jane Eagan:

                Fit for a king: Evidence of the refurbishment of a group of medieval manuscripts for the library of Henry VIII

Nicole Golroy & Andrew Honey

                The conservation of two composite Anselm manuscripts from the twelfth century: Two contrasting approaches?

Chiara Palandri & Anne Melgård:

                A composite manuscript made by a composite man: Presentation of the conservation of eight manuscripts in a folder

Georgia Iona:

                The devastating effects of adhesive tape: The conservation of a nineteenth-century Ottoman document

Luz Díaz Galán:

                Conservation of a selection of Islamic manuscripts from the National Library of Spain

Francisco Trujillo:

                From the master’s hand? A study of the working methods of the Master of Catherine of Cleves

Jacek Tomaszewski:

                Libri viatici: Protection and usage of portable books in medieval Poland

Justyna Król, Weronika Liszewska & Władysław Sobucki:

                Conservation of a fragment of a fourteenth-century illuminated French Bible: Tests of protein consolidants for flaking lead white pigment

John Gillis:

                ‘Book in a Bog’: The Fadden More Psalter, an update

Pamela Porter:

                ‘The dog that barked in the night’: The codex, clues, and curatorial conundrums

List of participants

Index of manuscripts

List of Figures

List of Tables