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Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18
464 pages | 362 color plates, 17 halftones | 6.3 x 9.45 | © 2023
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts
History: General History
Library Science and Publishing: Library Science
Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Amy Baldwin
Risen from the ashes. Balancing the historic and archival in the conservation of Charlotte Canning’s Indian journals
1
Penelope Banou & Angeliki Stassinou
Letters patent for the establishment of Roman Catholic confraternities in the seventeenth century in Greece. Typology, materials and aspects of preservation
15
Katherine Beaty & Kelli Piotrowski
From Florence to Rome. Conserving Italian stationery bindings at Harvard University
31
Marlen Börngen, Maike Linden, Bert Jacek & Andrea Pataki-Hundt
Naumburg choir books. Oversized wooden-board conservation
55
Cécile Brossard
Decorative remnants beneath a sixteenth-century Syriac binding
71
Lisa Camilleri
Fantastic features and where to find them. Title-tabs and other unique features of notarial bindings in Malta
89
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
Book culture in north-western India. An insight into the production and materiality of Indic handwritten artefacts in the nineteenth century
103
Patricia Engel & Andreas Gamerith
Care and conservation in the Cistercian Abbey of Zwettl, Lower Austria. Monastic tradition addressing a modern problem
129
Fenella G. France & Andrew Forsberg
Accessible linked scholarly and scientific data-visualisation for manuscripts
147
Mary Hamilton French
Honouring the past while preparing for the future. Conservation of a fifteenth-century manuscript on the life of St. Augustine
163
Ina Fröhlich
An illuminated Egyptian manuscript from the seventeenth century. Codicology, ink and copper corrosion, conservation
181
Andrew Honey
Winchester’s binder. Beatrice Forder at work, 1947–1948
193
Silvia Hufnagel, Vasare Rastonis, Robert Fuchs & Andreas Herzog
Paper trails. Hyperspectral imaging of watermarks in Icelandic paper
213
Ariane Langreder
The challenges of a Romanesque rebinding. The Psalter of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
227
Heather Marshall
The conservation of an eleventh-century Greek codex. Its role as an artefact and a functioning binding
239
Ekaterina Pasnak
Sixteenth-century German-style bindings produced in Bergen from the University of Bergen Library
261
Gaia Petrella
Estense Digital Library. Preparing materials for digitisation
281
Silvia Pugliese, Michael B. Toth & Sara Gottoli
Scientific investigation and conservation
289
Abigail Quandt
Real or fake? Conservators, scientists and scholars join forces in debunking manuscript forgeries
315
Vasare Rastonis, Jirí Vnoucek & Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
The conservation of Flateyjarbók
349
Alessandro Scola
Conserving and preserving a fifteenth-century Italian antiphonary. Non-traditional binding conservation techniques and an innovative multifunctional device
371
Shaun Thompson, Cécilia Duminuco & Samuel Foley
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project. A collaborative digitisation project in progress
399
Lieve Watteeuw & Marina Van Bos
A manuscript for the head. The study and conservation of the thirteenth-century illuminated parchment mitre of Bishop Jacques de Vitry
417
Valentina Yañez Langner
Inter-agency collaborations for the preservation of choir books at the National Museum of Viceroyalty, Mexico
435
Index of manuscripts
451
ix
Amy Baldwin
Risen from the ashes. Balancing the historic and archival in the conservation of Charlotte Canning’s Indian journals
1
Penelope Banou & Angeliki Stassinou
Letters patent for the establishment of Roman Catholic confraternities in the seventeenth century in Greece. Typology, materials and aspects of preservation
15
Katherine Beaty & Kelli Piotrowski
From Florence to Rome. Conserving Italian stationery bindings at Harvard University
31
Marlen Börngen, Maike Linden, Bert Jacek & Andrea Pataki-Hundt
Naumburg choir books. Oversized wooden-board conservation
55
Cécile Brossard
Decorative remnants beneath a sixteenth-century Syriac binding
71
Lisa Camilleri
Fantastic features and where to find them. Title-tabs and other unique features of notarial bindings in Malta
89
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
Book culture in north-western India. An insight into the production and materiality of Indic handwritten artefacts in the nineteenth century
103
Patricia Engel & Andreas Gamerith
Care and conservation in the Cistercian Abbey of Zwettl, Lower Austria. Monastic tradition addressing a modern problem
129
Fenella G. France & Andrew Forsberg
Accessible linked scholarly and scientific data-visualisation for manuscripts
147
Mary Hamilton French
Honouring the past while preparing for the future. Conservation of a fifteenth-century manuscript on the life of St. Augustine
163
Ina Fröhlich
An illuminated Egyptian manuscript from the seventeenth century. Codicology, ink and copper corrosion, conservation
181
Andrew Honey
Winchester’s binder. Beatrice Forder at work, 1947–1948
193
Silvia Hufnagel, Vasare Rastonis, Robert Fuchs & Andreas Herzog
Paper trails. Hyperspectral imaging of watermarks in Icelandic paper
213
Ariane Langreder
The challenges of a Romanesque rebinding. The Psalter of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
227
Heather Marshall
The conservation of an eleventh-century Greek codex. Its role as an artefact and a functioning binding
239
Ekaterina Pasnak
Sixteenth-century German-style bindings produced in Bergen from the University of Bergen Library
261
Gaia Petrella
Estense Digital Library. Preparing materials for digitisation
281
Silvia Pugliese, Michael B. Toth & Sara Gottoli
Scientific investigation and conservation
289
Abigail Quandt
Real or fake? Conservators, scientists and scholars join forces in debunking manuscript forgeries
315
Vasare Rastonis, Jirí Vnoucek & Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
The conservation of Flateyjarbók
349
Alessandro Scola
Conserving and preserving a fifteenth-century Italian antiphonary. Non-traditional binding conservation techniques and an innovative multifunctional device
371
Shaun Thompson, Cécilia Duminuco & Samuel Foley
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project. A collaborative digitisation project in progress
399
Lieve Watteeuw & Marina Van Bos
A manuscript for the head. The study and conservation of the thirteenth-century illuminated parchment mitre of Bishop Jacques de Vitry
417
Valentina Yañez Langner
Inter-agency collaborations for the preservation of choir books at the National Museum of Viceroyalty, Mexico
435
Index of manuscripts
451