Preface xi Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection 1 Katarzyna Anna Kapitan Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks. A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts 15 Jirí Vnoucek Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so 27 Marieka Kaye Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts 61 Chantal Kobel The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts. A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337) 77 Sarah Kilroy The Birmingham Qur?an manuscript. An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation 89 Kristine Rose-Beers Preparing to conserve an early Qur?an manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book 107 Nil Baydar Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century. Kashf al-Bayan an Sifat al-Hayawan 135 Rebecca Honold Same, same but different. The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel 159 Julia Poirier A short review of Samaritan binding practices.
A closer look at wooden endband plate structure 177 Georgios Boudalis The codex and crafts in late antiquity 199 Giada Genua & Marco Di Bella Codex Ms02. Conservation of a restoration 217 Gayane Eliazyan & al. The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel 233 Jasdip Singh Dhillon Sikh codices. The development of a conservation approach 245 Maria Rosaria Castelletti, Marta Grimaccia & Silvia Foschetti. Preservation and conservation of the Marega collection in the Vatican Library. A multifaceted project 261 Nancy K. Turner & Catherine M. Schmidt Patterson Documenting interventions in manuscript illuminations with macro-XRD scanning 279 Alessandra Pasqualucci Integrating multispectral and thermographic imaging techniques to recover hidden details in deteriorated parchment manuscripts 289 Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge Illuminating Bernward.
Some results of an art technological analysis of manuscripts from Ottonian Hildesheim 303 Diana Avelar Pires Moments of transformation as moments for learning. The conservation treatment of an account book from 1508 323 Aida Pereira Nunes Behind the scenes of the exhibition ''The Lisbon that could have been'' 349 Jane Eagan Conservation in the round and up a spiral staircase. Preserving a collection and a medieval space 365 Christine McNair & al. The Salzinnes Antiphonal project continued. Treatment and exhibition of a sixteenth-century liturgical manuscript 381 Cathie Magee The conservation of the Saint Francis Missal. Modern materials used to revive a relic 395 Andrew Honey Practice makes perfect?. Lessons learnt from the binding of the Winchester Bible 415 Barbara Wills & al. Conserving, analysing and studying the ''Hay cookbook''.
Revelations from ancient ''magical'' texts on leather 431 Justine Provino A medieval monster book. History, treatment and rebinding of the Fountains Abbey bestiary (MS M. 890) 449 Nikolas Sarris, Zoitsa Gkinni & Christina Tsaroucha Moving the manuscripts of the National Library of Greece to a new home 463 Solange FitzGerald The conservation of textile linings and seal cords with a little help from textile and painting conservation 481 Anna-Arietta Revithi, Konstantinos Choulis & Efthymia Mikropoulou. A long-stitch structure with an unusual decoration 495 Caroline Riberaigua & Marie Messager Codicology and conservation issues of the Asian palm-leaf manuscripts of the Collège de France, Paris 511 Eve Menei & Laurence Caylux Conservation of the great medical papyrus Louvre E32847 535 Jennifer Evers & Gwenanne Edwards Adaptations of iron gall ink protocols. The conservation treatment of an American Revolutionary War diary 547 Cédric Lelièvre Dust to dust? Spine reshaping implications on ledger bindings 563 Nikki Tomkins Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch. Conservation documentation of a seventeenth-century library 585 Paul Hepworth & Karin Scheper Communicating about Islamic manuscripts 597 Miriam Rampazzo Venetian sunk-panel binding and ''Commissioni dogali''. A historical and technical introduction 611 Vania Assis Unfolding Tangut''s lost world. Preserving Tangut fragments from the Stein Collection at the British Library 629 Konstantina Konstantinidou & al.
The conservation of Paul Hermann''s seventeenth-century Sri Lankan drawings. A unique volume with many challenges 647 Marco Di Bella & Nikolas Sarris The conservation of a fifteenth-century large parchment manuscript of Gädlä säma?tat from the monastery of ?Ura Mäsqäl. Further conservation experiences from East Tigray, Ethiopia 663 List of participants at the conference 693 Index of manuscripts 705.