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Book conservators working from home and in need of inspiration? Let’s see what we can find to read... (MS No.A2127, Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, 13th century, @topkapi_sarayi ) #ConservationBookClub #CBLconservation
Still essential reading, The Movement of the Book Spine, by Tom Conroy (1987, BPG Annual) https://cool.culturalheritage.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v06/bp06-01.html #ConservationBookClub ( @theUL Ms Dd.4.24, Canterbury Tales, early 15th century) #ConservationBookClub
For historic structures, this remains our exemplar: The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding, J.A. Szirmai (1999). @CBL_Dublin CBL Cpt 813, model by Charles Lamacraft #ConservationBookClub
You should also add this to your @chaptersbooks or @AmazonUK wish list immediately: Georgios Boudalis, The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity, @BardGradCenter (2018). Portrait of Terentius Neo, 55-79AD, Pompeii @MANNapoli #ConservationBookClub
Interesting choice of title, fascinating book: Sacred Trash, published by @PantheonBooks (2011), explores the discovery of the Cairo Genizah now @theUL T-S AS 183.272, 12th century) #ConservationBookClub
Let’s get technical. Another classic: Recent Developments in the Conservation of Parchment Manuscripts, by Abigail Quandt @walters_museum (1996, BPG annual) https://cool.culturalheritage.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v15/bp15-14.html @CBL_Dublin Is 1404, Qur’an, 8th century #ConservationBookClub
This is such a useful technique for parchment and paper, Islamic or western: Rendering the Invisible Visible, Jacobi et al. (2011, JPC) http://practice-in-conservation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Jacobi-2011-Rendering-the-invisible.pdf @CBL_Dublin Per 245, dated 1003/1595 #ConservationBookClub
Thinking about material analysis? Non invasive analysis of miniature paintings: Proposal for an analytical protocol, Aceto et al. (2012) https://www.academia.edu/2080256/Non_invasive_analysis_of_miniature_paintings_Proposal_for_an_analytical_protocol #ConservationBookClub
@DukeLibraries shared this excellent post which should keep us all busy https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2020/03/11/working-from-home-options-for-conservation-labs/ #ConservationBookClub
