{"title":"The condition survey of the manuscripts in the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai","authors":"Nicholas Pickwoad","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2004.9638640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2004.9638640","url":null,"abstract":"Summary To embark on a conservation programme in the library of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, it was first essential to carry out a survey of the books to assess their condition and record their physical composition. This paper describes how we record the condition of the books. As the collection is largely unknown and situated in a very remote location, it was clear that a definitive methodology was not going to be found until the survey itself had started, with the result that the design of the forms has in some areas changed radically from our first, formative visits. The working method needed also to be as rapid as possible, because our time in the monastery is limited and expensive, and to incorporate internal mechanisms to encourage consistency and accuracy. We therefore use paper forms with many check boxes and drawings, which also reduces written text, an advantage as we use surveyors from several different countries. The surveyors work in pairs, so that the work of one can be checked by the other, and the teams change at regular intervals to encourage consistency. Damage is recorded using a double percentage rating, recording the extent and severity of the different types of damage, to give a more rounded and flexible assessment of condition than a single figure would allow. The survey form consists of ten pages, with six further, optional pages if necessary, and each book is photographed with eight standard images, with some extra images as required.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122585949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An alternative approach to loss compensation in palm leaf manuscripts","authors":"Kimberly Nichols","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2004.9638646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2004.9638646","url":null,"abstract":"Palm leaves were one of the main writing and painting supports in most South and South-East Asian countries prior to the introduction of paper. The leaves are inherently fragile and prone to various types of degradation, making their preservation particularly challenging. In Western collections, palm leaf manuscripts generally comprise a small portion of the overall collection and are infrequently requested for exhibition or study. This can impact how routinely their condition is assessed and limit the contact that a conservator may have with the material. Furthermore, conservation of palm leaf often requires unconventional approaches that can make an otherwise standard treatment more involved. Limited developments in this specialized area have also made it difficult to respond to the preservation requirements of the material. Loss compensation in palm leaves is particularly problematic, as established conservation methods can present a variety of drawbacks which are discussed below. Conservation of a mid-thirteenth-century Indian palm leaf manuscript, in the Department of the Art of Asia, Africa and Oceania at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provided the opportunity to reassess and develop a method of loss compensation particularly suitable for this fragile material.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"130 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124248037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conservation of two Coptic parchment manuscript fragments","authors":"P. Hepworth, M. Michelozzi","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2004.9638641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2004.9638641","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The treatments of two similar parchment Coptic manuscript fragments at two different institutions are compared in this article. Both treatments involved the use of a remoistenable mending material—fish swim bladder membrane, or a fine Japanese tissue. Differences in the mending rationales are discussed and treatment innovations elaborated. Other factors impinging on treatment decision-making, beyond the conservation needs of the individual pieces, are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124845719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conservation of Annotationes in Libro Evangeliorum using a natural cloth hollow over a moulded Japanese paper spine-former","authors":"Andrew Honey","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638626","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This paper describes the conservation treatment of a 1641 Amsterdam-printed folio in a contemporary English tight-back trade binding. Transverse linen liners were used to improve board hinging, and consolidation, with gelatine, of the detaching leather grain layer is described. A method of supporting the consolidated leather using a natural cloth hollow over a moulded Japanese paper spine-former, enabling the spine to open as a shallow but semi-rigid arc, is explained.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"19 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113992169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Story of Time': Managing a major loans-in exhibition at the National Maritime Museum","authors":"Sarah Mccormick, R. Whitford","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638633","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Temporary exhibitions are an important part of the work of many museums and often involve borrowing objects in order to support the museum's own collections. In 1999, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, opened its Millennium exhibition, The Story of Time’, a nine-month-long exhibition which was the largest the museum had ever organized. This paper looks at the problems encountered when dealing with large numbers of objects and couriers, as well as when staging an exhibition in a seventeenth-century listed building. It also offers some practical advice for planning, communication, and decision making from the perspectives of the Registrar and Conservators.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132668529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"160 years of conservation documentation at The National Archives, UK","authors":"M. Aleppo","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125755514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidelines for Authors Preparing Manuscripts for Publication","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638637","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121329804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conservation and preservation of rare ‘dragon’ playing cards","authors":"J. Schirò, T. Lupi","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638627","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Research carried out during conservation treatment of 26 rare ‘dragon’ playing cards at the Malta Centre for Restoration has led to new discoveries in the history of playing cards and printing in Malta. With persistance and collaboration with other conservators and collectors of playing cards, several new finds have been unearthed, among them a complete deck of cards and a unique woodblock, forgotten in a conservation laboratory for many years. The historical background and origins of dragon playing cards are discussed and conservation treatment is explained. An exhibition case which allows examination of the cards from both sides has been constructed and is described.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"68 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132545519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preservation microfilming and digitization at London Metropolitan Archives: Surveying and conservation preparation prior to image capture","authors":"Helen Lindsay","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638630","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The use of surrogates in archives, for preservation or access, is an important element in a collection management programme. This paper presents as a case study the production cycle of microfilming and digitization at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), UK. It takes as its starting point the initial management decision to make a surrogate and goes on to describe surveying, preparation of material prior to image capture, quality assurance, copying, allocation of call numbers, through to the completion of the process as the surrogate is made available to the public. In addition to this overview of practice, the author describes the surveying and conservation preparation of three collections at LMA showing how the information gathering and conservation approach differs from collections treated for general access.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129755671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An unfolding exhibition—conservation and registrar perspectives","authors":"C. Bendix, C. Calnan, S. Hickey","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2003.9638634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2003.9638634","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In 1999 The National Trust, in conjunction with the Grolier Club of New York and the Royal Oak Foundation of America, arranged an exhibition entitled Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses’. 128 books were selected from a large number of properties and brought together at central collection points before travelling to New York. Planning took two years, involving both those on the NT staff and external advisers and conservators. There were many problems in bringing together material from so many places, ranging from the logistics of carrying out condition assessments to dealing with the attendant changes in environment; documentation proved difficult at all stages. Two items of particular sensitivity required special attention throughout the process. Working in two continents also proved to be problematic and made verification of environmental data difficult, which placed an extra burden on the conservators setting up the exhibition.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121745435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}