Conservation of parchment codex with wooden boards

  • Owner: Sant Martí Sarroca council (Barcelona, Spain).
  • Object: Manuscripted codex, with parchment sheets and wooden boards covered with leather. 16th century score with gregorian songs from the chapel Sant Pere ad Vincula of the Vernet tower.
  • Damages: Mold, woodworm and rat losses, mutilation, Infecció i floritures, llacunes per rosegadors, corcs, mutilacions, failure of the sewing, loss of the locks and other elements, abrasion of the leather, wrinkles on the parchment sheets.
  • Conservation treatment: Mold treatment, cleaning, flattening of the parchment sheets, sewing, leather conservation treatment, restitution of the lost locks and treatment of the old remnants, bookbinding on the original covers…

Wooden boards book before (top) and after (below) conservation treatment

Parchment sheets. Before (left) and after (right) the conservation teatment

Bronze locks before (left) and after (right) the conservation treatment

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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Conservation of parchment codex with wooden boards

  • Owner: Sant Martí Sarroca council (Barcelona, Spain).
  • Object: Manuscripted codex, with parchment sheets and wooden boards covered with leather. 16th century score with gregorian songs from the chapel Sant Pere ad Vincula of the Vernet tower.
  • Damages: Mold, woodworm and rat losses, mutilation, Infecció i floritures, llacunes per rosegadors, corcs, mutilacions, failure of the sewing, loss of the locks and other elements, abrasion of the leather, wrinkles on the parchment sheets.
  • Conservation treatment: Mold treatment, cleaning, flattening of the parchment sheets, sewing, leather conservation treatment, restitution of the lost locks and treatment of the old remnants, bookbinding on the original covers…

Wooden boards book before (top) and after (below) conservation treatment

Parchment sheets. Before (left) and after (right) the conservation teatment

Bronze locks before (left) and after (right) the conservation treatment

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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