Owner: Can Pedrals Library (Granollers, Spain), Diputació de Barcelona. Object: Over 300 parchment manuscripts from different dates. Damages: Folds, wrinkles, cockling, tears, losses, superficial grim and dirt. Conservation treatment: Dry cleaning, flattening, consolidation of weakened areas, housing. Old sewn repairs … Continue reading
Owner: Association of Architects of Catalonia (CoAC). Commissioned by: ICO Foundation (Madrid, Spain). Object: Tracing paper and onion-skin plans. Proejct of the Montecarlo Palace and desing for Wütrich house in Papagayo (Canary Islands). Author: Fernando Higueras, Spanish architect. Damages: Fragmented … Continue reading
Event: Cores Symposium. Dilemmas: Between cherishing damage and cleaning up this mess. Restorers, collection managers and researchers on conservation and restoration. Lecture: Reversible vs Irreversible. Organization: Syntrawest, Vlaanderen Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en media Venue: State Archives, Brugge (Belgium). Audience: Paper conservators, curators, historians, librarians, archivists. … Continue reading
Owner: Association of Architects of Catalonia (CoAC). Object: Bound manuscript with inlaid lock. Full leather renaissance binding with brass bosses and clasps, and an iron lock on both covers. It has blind tooling decoration (rectangles and flowers). Laid paper pages. … Continue reading
Owner: Private collection Object: Laminated historical manuscript related to the trams strike in Barcelona in 1951. Damages: Failure of the plasticizing process with severe damage: folds that have been melted to each other in some spots (preventing the document from … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
Date: 7th october 2014. Place: Nationaal Archive (Den Haag, Netherlands).
Owner: Association of Architects of Catalonia (CoAC). Object: Drawings on pencil and watercolour of the romanesque monastery of Sant Pere de Roda (Girona, Spain). Author: Architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Date: 1905
Limp vellum binding with flap. 18th century. Manuscript with cook recipes.
Damages: Parchment loss on the spine and front cover. Broken lock and borken spine reinforcing made of leather which hold the sewing. the locks were lost too. The parchment had been soaked in oil in former interventions to “protect” it. Continue reading
Owner: Documentation Centre of the Orfeó Català – Palau de la Música (Barcelona). Artefact: Manuscripted score on iron-gall ink and laid paper. Renaissance binding on reversed leather and cotton locks. 1643.
Beneficiari: Arxiu Municipal de Barcelona (Districte Sants-Montjuïc). Objecte: Fons documental de Manufacturas Serra i Balet. s.XX. Conté impresos, manuscrits, fulls ciclostilats, plànols en tela…
TRANSLATION PENDING (appologies!) Owner: Arxiu Comarcal del Vallès Oriental (Granollers). Object: Manuscrits en pergamí (s.XII – s.XVII).
Owner: Association of Architects of Catalonia (CoAC). Object: Plans on tracing paper and onion paper dating 20th century. Damages: Folds on paper, tears, losses, tape stains. Conservation treatment: Stain removal for pressure sensitive tapes, consolidation, flattening. This restoration has been complex enough to … Continue reading
(castellano / català) Owner: Private collection. Artefact: Watercolour drawing by Emili Armengol i Gall. Lantern-summer festival (at Terrassa?) view of Sant Llorenç del Munt (la Mola) at the background (spanish countryside). c.1930. Author: Emili Armengol i Gall, catalan painter and jewler. Some of his artwork … Continue reading