Conservation of stationery limp vellum bindings with flap
- Owner: Regional Archive of Baix Empordà (La Bisbal, Girona, Spain), Government of Catalonia.
- Object: Two stationery manuscripts on laid paper. They have limp vellum bindings with tacketing onto exterior leather supports (see heading image). Both with flaps, are sewn on leather tackets (see header image) and have clasp button of alum tawed leather. Turn ins have alum tawed leather tackets.
- Date: 1719-1752 (llibre de rendes) and 1713-1852 (llibre de canalar, the one shown on the images of this post).
- Damages: wrinkles, parchment loss, damage in the flaps, breackage of the alum tawed turn in tackets and button clasps. Folios have discrete damage: water tide lines, mould stains of former biological damage.
- Conservation treatment: Dry cleaning, consolidation and flattening of parchement covers. Wet cleaning of first and last folios, tear mending. Restitution of tie buttons and leather tackets. Re-sewn.
- Conservators: Se Hee Song, Rita Udina.
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 stationery limp vellum bindings with flap
- Owner: Regional Archive of Baix Empordà (La Bisbal, Girona, Spain), Government of Catalonia.
- Object: Two stationery manuscripts on laid paper. They have limp vellum bindings with tacketing onto exterior leather supports (see heading image). Both with flaps, are sewn on leather tackets (see header image) and have clasp button of alum tawed leather. Turn ins have alum tawed leather tackets.
- Date: 1719-1752 (llibre de rendes) and 1713-1852 (llibre de canalar, the one shown on the images of this post).
- Damages: wrinkles, parchment loss, damage in the flaps, breackage of the alum tawed turn in tackets and button clasps. Folios have discrete damage: water tide lines, mould stains of former biological damage.
- Conservation treatment: Dry cleaning, consolidation and flattening of parchement covers. Wet cleaning of first and last folios, tear mending. Restitution of tie buttons and leather tackets. Re-sewn.
- Conservators: Se Hee Song, Rita Udina.
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)