Care and conservation of manuscripts 14 : proceedings of the fourteenth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 17th-19th October 2012 /
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 14 contains over thirty contributions by top scholars in the fiel...
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| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen, Denmark :
Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen,
2014
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| Series: | Care and conservation of manuscripts,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preserving the brain in the box: the scientific analysis and conservation of the Archimedes Palimpset / Abigail Quandt
- The collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive: the role of restorers and emergency plan / Robert Fuchs
- Kind Valdemar's Cadastre: the conservation and observation of a once-divided manuscript / Jiří Vnouček
- Bindings and findings: the conservation of three manuscripts in the Arnamagnœan manuscript collection / Peter Springborg, Mette Jacobsen & Natasha Fazlić
- Deletions in manuscripts: historical sources and physical traces / Patricia Engel
- The seventeenth-century florilegium Gottorfer Codex: examination and restoration of 1180 gouache flower paintings on parchment / Niels Borring, Christian Balleby Jensen & Anja Scocozza
- Adaptive practice, over-familiarity and mirabilia: the problem of training and awareness in the care of rare book collections in Italy / Maria Luisa Russo
- The Altona Haggadah: the history, conservation and rebinding of an eighteenth-century illuminated manuscript / Maria Trojan-Bedynski, Doris St-Jacques, Lynn Curry & Season Tse
- Composition of iron gall inks in illuminated manuscripts (eleventh-sixteenth century): the use by scribes and illuminators / Marina Van Bos & Lieve Watteeuw
- The medieval girdle book: a constant companion / Margit J. Smith
- The illuminated pixel: RTI, infrared and visible light in exploration of medieval manuscripts / Michael Maggen
- Dickens discovered, Tyndale traced and Cyrillic sacraments compared: alll by black lighting / Ian Christie-Miller
- A new portable system for multispectral and full spectral imaging / Felix Albrecht
- Neither weak nor simple: adjusting our perception of Islamic manuscript structures / Karin Scheper
- Field conservation in East Tigray, Ethiopia / Marco Di Bella & Nikolas Sarris
- Changing the will: illuminated endowment deeds of Ottoman royal women / Paul Hepworth
- A survey of some early Greek printed books from local archives in Naxos (1500-1900) / Stamatina Ouzounoglou
- Conservation of incunabula in the Academic Library of Tallinn University / René Haljasmäe & Tiiu Reimo
- Seals and their conservation in Latvia / Ilona Teplouhova
- Passed along from generation to generation: the history and conservation of Magdeburg privileges granted to Lazdijai / Jonas Drungilas & Dalia Jonynaité
- Digitizing Greek manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin: a virtual/virtuous exchange / Barbara Crostini
- Devising assessment strategies for the British Library's 'Treasures' / Paul Garside, Mariluz Beltrane de Guevara & Flavio Marzo
- 'Elementary my dear Watson'
- manuscripts, mysteries and the solving of clues / Pamela Porter
- Preface
- Preserving the brain in the box: the scientific analysis and conservation of the Archimedes Palimpset / Abigail Quandt
- The collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive: the role of restorers and emergency plan / Robert Fuchs
- Kind Valdemar's Cadastre: the conservation and observation of a once-divided manuscript / Jiří Vnouček
- Bindings and findings: the conservation of three manuscripts in the Arnamagnœan manuscript collection / Peter Springborg, Mette Jacobsen & Natasha Fazlić
- Deletions in manuscripts: historical sources and physical traces / Patricia Engel
- The seventeenth-century florilegium Gottorfer Codex: examination and restoration of 1180 gouache flower paintings on parchment / Niels Borring, Christian Balleby Jensen & Anja Scocozza
- Adaptive practice, over-familiarity and mirabilia: the problem of training and awareness in the care of rare book collections in Italy / Maria Luisa Russo
- The Altona Haggadah: the history, conservation and rebinding of an eighteenth-century illuminated manuscript / Maria Trojan-Bedynski, Doris St-Jacques, Lynn Curry & Season Tse
- Composition of iron gall inks in illuminated manuscripts (eleventh-sixteenth century): the use by scribes and illuminators / Marina Van Bos & Lieve Watteeuw
- The medieval girdle book: a constant companion / Margit J. Smith
- The illuminated pixel: RTI, infrared and visible light in exploration of medieval manuscripts / Michael Maggen
- Dickens discovered, Tyndale traced and Cyrillic sacraments compared: alll by black lighting / Ian Christie-Miller
- A new portable system for multispectral and full spectral imaging / Felix Albrecht
- Neither weak nor simple: adjusting our perception of Islamic manuscript structures / Karin Scheper
- Field conservation in East Tigray, Ethiopia / Marco Di Bella & Nikolas Sarris
- Changing the will: illuminated endowment deeds of Ottoman royal women / Paul Hepworth
- A survey of some early Greek printed books from local archives in Naxos (1500-1900) / Stamatina Ouzounoglou
- Conservation of incunabula in the Academic Library of Tallinn University / René Haljasmäe & Tiiu Reimo
- Seals and their conservation in Latvia / Ilona Teplouhova
- Passed along from generation to generation: the history and conservation of Magdeburg privileges granted to Lazdijai / Jonas Drungilas & Dalia Jonynaité
- Digitizing Greek manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin: a virtual/virtuous exchange / Barbara Crostini
- Devising assessment strategies for the British Library's 'Treasures' / Paul Garside, Mariluz Beltrane de Guevara & Flavio Marzo
- 'Elementary my dear Watson'
- manuscripts, mysteries and the solving of clues / Pamela Porter