Care and conservation of manuscripts 9 : proceedings of the ninth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 14th-15th April 2005

Care & Conservation of Manuscripts, Volume 9 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen, 14th to 15th April 2005

• Preface
• Wooden bindings and tree-rings -- A conclusion
• 'Publish or perish
• Early Arnamagnæan editions as a means to the care and conservation of manuscripts
• The Persian miniature and its conservation
• Documentation and conservation of an Islamic manuscript from the eleventh century
• Preservation ethics and practical digitisation
• Conservation of a thirteenth century Biblia Sacra Latine
• The conservation of Parker MSS 16 and 26 The Chronica Majora
• The story of the Prague fragment of St Marks gospel through fourteen centuries
• A new approach to an established narrative
• Report on a theft of books, a non-fiction detective story
• Medieval Danish Bindings
• Conservation of leather bindings damaged by mould
• Man sieht nur das was man kennt -- Schadenphänomene in Inkunabeln
• Early care and conservation and the problems they produce
• Preserving the past: England, Iceland and the movement of manuscripts
• Low energy air conditioning of archives
• A Russian-Dutch project for the development of universal procedures for document heritage preservation and access
• Exhibition conservation - Luxury or necessity
• Museum Meermanno and the Missale Trajectense
• Programme for the seminar
• List of participants
• Colour plates
• List of illustrations
• Index of manuscripts