Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling.
Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book.
Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied. Continue reading →
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling.
Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book.
Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied. Continue reading →
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling.
Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book.
Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings with rolled sewing on parchment are studied. Continue reading →
Owner: Historical Archive of Lleida (Catalonia), National Archive of Catalonia, Government of Catalonia. Object: Limp vellum binding mansucript. Rolled sewing on parchment. The covers are a re-used manuscript (disjecta membra). “Manual notarial d’Andreu Soler” (notes by notary Andreu Soler). Date: … Continue reading →
Some projects are extremely complex regarding the ethical professional decision making, and this is certainly one of the toughests!
Rather than trimming the original beautiful bindings with marbled edges, some facsimile dust-jackets were made to protect the books, that were also restored preserving all their features. Continue reading →
Conservation of medieval manuscripts on rag paper and limp vellum binding. Sewing thread made of rolled parchment, with independent knots onto inner parchment stays. Outer leather tackets. Continue reading →
Owner: Alcon-Cusí Museum (Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia). Object: Graduation photograph of the first Pharmacy students in Catalonia (University of Barcelona, 1901). Treatment: Edition of a facsimile (reproduction, or identical copy). The Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia owned … Continue reading →
(Translation pending) Owner: Public Library Carles Rahola (Girona, Spain), Catalonia Government. Object: 23 Incunabula books, with limp and semi-limp vellum bindings, as well as some full leather on board bindings. There a re examples of fragmentology and disjecta membra, as … Continue reading →
