Care and conservation of manuscripts 16, 13-15 April 2016

List of posters with links to individual abstracts

Adriana Ferreira, Conceição Casanova, Helena Nunes, Tânia Dias, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa and Faculdade de Ciências e Técnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Use of rigid gels and Albertina compress in 18 Portuguese manuscripts

Athanasios Velios, Nicholas Pickwoad, Aurelie Martin, Ligatus, University of the Arts London: The Language of Bindings thesaurus

Élodie Lévêque, Book conservator & PhD candidate, Paris: A Rare example of an anomalous medieval book sewing technique found in the Clairvaux Manuscript Collection

Emily Lynch, The Morgan Library and Museum: An alternative approach to rebinding medieval manuscripts

Femke Coevert, book&paper conservator Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: 'Sensitive' book cradle for digitising friable media in sketchbooks

Frank Trujillo, The Morgan Library and Museum: The consolidation of pigments in the Morgan Library’s Winchester Bible leaf

Maurizio Aceto, Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale: A state-of-the-art report on the analytical characterisation of purple codices

Reet Randoja, Kelly Kert, Kärt Pauklin, Tulvi Turo, National Archives of Estonia: Paper-cuts by Eveline von Maydell: Conservation, digitisation and exhibition project

Saira Haqqi, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU: Let there be (less) light! A comparison of the radiation-blocking properties of selected window films

Yasmeen Khan, Sr. Rare Book Conservator, Conservation Division, Library of Congress: Conservation treatment of “Islamic” manuscripts at the Library of Congress in the 21st century