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The 16th seminar on the care and conservation of manuscripts was held at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities 13 - 15 April 2016.

A participant's perspective on the conference

Jess Hyslop from the West Dean College School of Conservation has written a blog post about her participation in Care and Conservation 16. 

From 13th to 15th April 2016, the postgraduate students of Books & Library Materials Conservation took ourselves off to the University of Copenhagen to attend the sixteenth Care and Conservation of Manuscripts conference. As it was the first conservation conference we had been to, we weren't quite sure what to expect­-but it turned out that CC16 was a wonderful introduction to this sort of event, and an amazing experience all round.

Read more at the School of Conservation blog.

Programme

Wednesday 13 April

8.30 - 10.00: Registration

Will take place in front of Lecture Hall 22-0-11 at the Faculty of Humanities, Building 22, University of Copenhagen Amager, Njalsgade 126.

10.00-12.00: Session 1

Chair: M. J. Driscoll

M. J. Driscoll, Arnamagnæan Institute: Words of welcome

Beeke Stegmann: The intended and unintended traces of a collector: Studying the history of Arnamagnæan manuscripts based on accompanying slips

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson: Latin manuscript fragments related to Iceland

Tim Padfield, Morten Ryhl-Svendsen, Poul Klenz Larsen, Mette Jakobsen and Lars Aasbjerg Jensen: The climate control of the Arnamagnæan manuscript vault

Margit Smith: The dreaded Lepisma saccharina

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-15.30: Session 2

Chair: Philip Lavender

Flavio Marzo: Active, supportive and flexible: The evolving role of book conservation in digitisation projects: The British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership Digitisation Programme

Alberto Campagnolo, Dot Porter, Doug Emery and Dennis Mullen: Virtually disbinding codices: The visualization of the construction of codex textblocks

Lynn Ransom: The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts project: An update

Jessica Dummer, Doug Emery and Dot Porter: OPenn and its place in the digital humanist’s landscape

David Cooper, Athanasios Velios and Nicholas Pickwoad: An online catalogue of the manuscripts of the monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai

15.30-16.00: Break

16.00-18.00: Session 3

Chair: Anne Mette Hansen

Michaelle Biddle: Conserving Africa’s Islamic manuscript heritage

Nil Baydar: The history of a book hospital: Management of manuscript conservation in Turkey

Marco di Bella and Nikolas Sarris: The conservation of a 15th-century large parchment ms of Gädlä säma ‘tat from the monastery of Ura Mäsqäl: Further conservation experiences from Easty Tigray, Ethiopia

Abigail Quandt: The purple codices: A report on current and future research and conservation treatment projects

18.00-19.00: Reception in the foyer of Building 27

Thursday 14 April

8.30-9.30: Open House at the Arnamagnæan Workshops

9.30-11.00: Session 1A in Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Chair: Sean Vrieland

Daina Ragauskienė, Medeina Steponavičiūtė and Aušra Čiuladienė: Books in 17th-century Lithuania: Investigation of vegetable tanned bookbinding and bookblock components

Arkadiusz Knapik, Tomasz Zacharski, Tatjana Timčenko and Greta Keraitė: Chemical evaluation of disinfection with essential oils based on Vilnius University Library experience

9.30-11.00: Session 1B in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: Beeke Stegmann

Teresa Espejo Arias and L. Crespo Arcá: The experience of matting single parchment documents for exhibition: The case of the 'Capitulaciones de Almería'

Marco Fagiolo: Codicological study and restoration of the manuscript found INV.1093 in the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" of Rome

Kelli Piotrowski: Unfurled: The conservation of English manor rolls

11.00-12.00: Poster Session outside Lecture Hall 22-0-11

11.30-12.30: Demonstration of Multi-spectral scanning in Room 27-2-23

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-15.00: Session 2A in Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Chair: Silvia Hufnagel

Frederick Bearman: The laced overband: Its place in the history of stationery bindings

Patricia Engel: Old repairs on historical books: How to treat them in modern day conservation

Saira Haqqi: Why did they do that? Rebinding at the Pierpont Morgan Library in the early 20th century: A case study

Robert Fuchs: Of evil demons and wicked students: Choir books of the Naumburg Cathedral

13.00-15.00 Session 2B in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: Philip Lavender

Masoumeh Madani Pour: A closer look: Exploring the depiction of books in Islamic paintings

Razieh Taheri: Studying the antifungal properties of Satureja Khuzestaniea essential oil on historical papers

Inês Correia: Recovering the 16th-century Treatise of Seamanship of João de Lisboa: Dialog with cumulative material changes

Michael Maggen: The mysterious drawing Angelus Novus by Paul Klee

15.00-15.30: Break

15.30-17.30: Session 3 in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: M. J. Driscoll

Nancy Turner, Vincent Beltran and Catherine Patterson: Cumulative light exposure of illuminated manuscripts: Steps towards an exhibitions policy

Michael B. Toth and William A, Christens-Barry: Developing spectral imaging as a standardized tool for collaborative conservation support

Christina Duffy, Paul Garside, Gavin Moorhead and Cordelia Rogerson: Imaging Magna Carta: Incorporating new technologies into old workflows

Sarah Fiddyment, Jiří Vnouček, Matthew Teasdale and Matthew Collins: Biomolecular codicology: Exploring the York Gospels

18.30-21.30: Buffett Dinner at the Monks' Cellar, University of Copenhagen City Campus

Friday 15 April

9.30-11.00: Session 1A in Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Chair: Sean Vrieland

Jolanta Czuczko, Dorota Jutrzenka-Supryn, Miroslaw Wachowiak and Piotr Targowski: The 14th-century Pelplin Graduale de tempore et de sanctis: Research and conservation issues

Emilio Catelli, Victoria Juhlin and Kidane Gebremariam: A non-invasive analytical approach for investigation of illuminated manuscripts and fragments from the collections of the NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Library

Kidane Gebremariam: A quick look at the pigments in the Abba Garima illuminated gospel manuscript using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry as a non-destructive diagnostic tool

9.30-11.00: Session 1B in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: M. J. Driscoll

Lieve Watteeuw and Cecilia Duminuco: Sewing threads in hand-made West European bookbinding: Historical sources, imaging and analytical assessment ( 12th - 19th century)

Paul Hepworth: Yekşah: A technique not an identity

William A. Christens-Barry and Michael B. Toth: Spectral imaging using optimized fluorescence for cultural heritage materials

11.00-11.30: Break

11.30-13.00: Session 2A in Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Chair: Beeke Stegmann

Jana Dřevikovská and Martina Ohlídalová: The 11th-century Codex Vyssegradensis from the collection of the National Library in Prague: Investigation and consolidation questions

Vasare Rastonis and Susan Boynton: 21st-century conservation and study of a 13th-century gradual

Deborah Howe: The Brut Chronicle: Revived and reconstructed

11.30-13.00: Session 2B in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: Anne Mette Hansen

Elke Cwiertnia and Paul Dryburgh: Examination of the Barons’ letter and historical documentation of the seals

Ana Barrosa, Rita Araújo, Rita Castro and Conceição Casanova: Study and conservation of two 17th-century parochial manuscripts from Almada

Mary French, Rebecca Goldie and Emma Nichols: The Lewis-Gibson Project: Reflections on the conservation of 1,791 manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-16.00 Session 3 in Lecture Hall 23-0-50

Chair: M. J. Driscoll

Pınar Çakar, Ayşegül Kocaman, Esra Demiröz, Nurgül Akcebe and Rümeysa Özen: Conservation priority surveys in 11 manuscript libraries in Turkey

Louise O'Connor and Élodie Lévêque: Heraldic manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland: Implementing the conservation of complex volumes

Emmanuelle Largeteau and John Gillis: Conserving a 17th-century manuscript damaged by mould at Trinity College Dublin

Dan Paterson: A study of two vellum manuscript waste bindings and a survey of similar bindings in American research libraries

16.00-16.15: Closing remarks

Wednesday 2 April

Registration: 11.00-13.00 in the Foyer of Building 22 at the Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 126, Amager.

First session: 13.00-15.00. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

M.J. Driscoll, The Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen: Words of welcome.

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon's initial collection.

Bragi Þorgrímur Ólafsson, National and University Library of Iceland: Digital archives and the presentation of the past.

Margit J. Smith, independent scholar, San Diego, USA: White gloves - required or not?

Aurelie Martin, Nicholas Pickwoad, Athanasios Velios, Ligatur Research Centre, University of Arts, London: Fitting a quart into a pint pot at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London: A new library management and conservation survey tool for historic libraries.

15.00-15-30: Break

Second session: 15.30-17.55. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Ted Stanley, Princeton University Library: Non-invasive ATR-FTIR spectroscopic authentication of a 16th-century Aztec picture map on deerskin.

Cristina Cicero, University of Rome "Tor Vergata": Thermographic analysis of hidden text and illuminated manuscripts.

Alberto Campagnolo, Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London: Errata (per oculos) corrige: Visual identification of meaningless data in database records of bookbinding structures.

Alejandro Giacometti, University College London, Alberto Campagnolo, Ligatus Research Centre, [et al.]: Visualising macroscopic deterioration of parchment and writing via multispectral images.

Paula Zyats, Yale University Library: The mysterious Voynich manuscript: Collaboration yields new insights.

18.00: Reception in the Foyer of Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Thursday 3 April

8.30-9.45: Open house at the Conservation workshop and the Photographic studio of the Arnamagnæan Institute, Building 27 on the Amager Campus, Njalsgade 136. Rooms 27-2-27 and 27-2-53.

First session: 10.00-12-00. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Élodie Lévêque, National Library of Ireland: Gaelic manuscripts collection survey: Discovery of a non-adhesive 19th-century binding.

Cédric Lelievre, Atelier Cédric LELIEVRE, Nîmes: Looking for economical solutions for the treatment of a valuable 15th-century illuminated parchment manuscript.

Ana Lopez-Montes, Teresa Espejo, University of Granada: Recovering the Notarial register of Torres (Jaén): A study of a 14th-century archive binding.

Martha Elena Romero, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas-UNAM, Mexico: The binding of a 16th-century Mexican manuscript as evidence of the encounter of two cultures.

12.00-13.30: Lunch break

During the lunch break Prof. Matthew Collins from the University of York will demonstrate "Books and Beasts: Parchment identification from conservation waste".

Second session: 13.30-15.00. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Patricia Engel, European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Horn: The Rotelbooks of Kremsmünster.

Weronika Liszewska, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Jacek Tomaszewski, Polish Institute of World Art Studies, The Asia & Pacific Museum, Warsaw, Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Uppsala University: Analysis and conservation of Ethiopian parchment manuscripts in the University Library in Warsaw.

Christoph Flüeler, University of Fribourg, Andrea Giovannini, independent conservator, Lumino, Switzerland: Restoration and digitisation: A complementary approach.

Break 15.00-15.30

Third session: 15.30-17.00. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania: A progress report on the New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts.

Sabina Pugh, Bodleian Library, Oxford: Getting on board: Rebinding three medieval parchment manuscripts as a conservation training project.

Nicholas Pickwoad, Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London: The Lanhydrock Pedigree: Mounting and framing an oversize parchment document.

18.00-21.00: Buffet dinner at the Monks' cellar at the City Campus of the University of Copenhagen.

Friday 4 April

First session: 9.30-11.30. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Dalia Jonynaitė, Lithuanian Art Museum P. Gudynas Restoration Centre, Gintarė Latvytė, Daina Ragauskienė, Vilnius University: Mysteries of ‘cera di Spagna’: Investigation of historical wax seals in 16th- to 19th-century Lithuanian collections.

Lieve Watteeuw, KU Leuven, Illuminare, Research Centre for Medieval Arts, Marina Van Bos, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage: ‘Un tres beau psaultier, tout escript de letter d’or et d’azur’: A closer look at the Peterborough Psalter and its conservation.

Elżbieta Jabłońska, Małgorzata Pronobis-Gajdzis, Tomasz Kozielec, Department of Paper and Leather Conservation, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń: The 11th-century Gniezno Codex Aureus: Investigation and conservation.

Georgios Budalis, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki: Iconographic evidence as a source of information for clarifying the structure, appearance and use of the early codex book around the Mediterranean Basin.

11.30-12.30: Lunch break

Second session: 12.30-14.30. Venue: Lecture Hall 22-0-11

Pamela Porter, former curator, British Library: Autographs and the art of friendship: Are manuscripts just for scholars?

Adriana Paolini, Fondazione del Museo Storico del Trentino: Writings from the Great War.

Frederick Bearman, University College London: Parchment booklets, the Royal Wardrobe and the Italian Connection: How the parchment booklet was adopted as an administrative tool in the reign of Edward I and Edward II.

Morgan Adams, Pine Tree Foundation Fellow, Thaw Conservation Center, Morgan Library & Museum, New York: Extraordinary ordinary: Physical evidence and treatment of a 17th-century heraldic manuscript.

Special visit: 15.00-17.00

Visit to CATS, Centre for Arts, Technological Studies and Conservation at the National Gallery of Denmark.

This visit is optional and special registration is required.

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Wednesday 13 April

9.00-12.00: Open house at the conservation and photographic workshops of the Arnamagnæan Institute.

This includes a demonstration of the multi-spectral scanner the institute recently has acquired.

11.00-13.00: Registration at the Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 126, Building 23 - in the foyer.
Venue: Lecture Hall: 23-0-49

Session 1: 13.00-15.00

13.00-13.15: M. J. Driscoll, Arnamagnæan Institute: Words of welcome.
13.15-13.40: Anne Mette Hansen, Arnamagnæan Institute: AM 421 12mo, an artefactual philological study.
13.45-14.05: Lin Rosa Spaabæk, Rosenborg Castle: The conservation and reconstruction of wax seals: A reversible method.
14.10-14.35: Maria Berggren, Uppsala University Library & Helena Strömquist, Lund University Library: The ProBok project.
14.40-15.10: Margit J. Smith, Copley Library (retired), University of San Diego : The first ‘Internationale Konferenz zur Erhaltung und Ausbesserung alter Handschriften', St. Gallen 1898.
15.10-15-40: Coffee break

Session 2: 15.40-17.30

15.40-16.05: Caroline Bendix, Market Harborough, Leicestershire & Athanasios Velios, Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London: Storing library collections: a workflow for packing and tracking items in the library of the St. Catherine's Monastery.
16.10-16.35: Jane Klinger, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Lynn Brostoff & Jennifer Wade, Library of Congress: Analysis of written material from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
16.40-17.00: Fenella G. France, Library of Congress: Advanced non-invasive spectral preservation at the Library of Congress.
After the last paper the Arnamagnæan Institute invites everyone for a glass of wine in the foyer of building 23, outside lecture hall 23-0-49.

Thursday 14 April

Venue: Lecture Hall 23-0-49

Session 1, A:  9.00-10.30

9.00-9.25: Nikolas Sarris, independent book conservator, Athens: Seeing through the cover: A methodology for classifying decorated book bindings at the St. Catherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai.
9.30-9.55: Femke Prinsen, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel: Decision making on the cutting edge: Dealing with waste material used as book binding material.
10.00-10.25: Ingelise Nielsen, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation: The paper in "Jammers Minde" [Misery Recollected]

10.30-11.00: Coffee

Session 2, A: 11.00-12.30

11.00-11.25: Sherry Guild, Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, Lynn Curry, Library & Archives Canada, Gatineau, Judith E. Dietz, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax: The Salzinnes antiphonal: History and examination of a 16th century liturgical manuscript.
11.30-11.55: Marta-Cristina Ursescu, Oana-Mihaela Căpăţȋă, Ana-Maria Andrei, National Complex of Museums "Moldova", Iaşi: The Ornament: Elements of identification of the origin of a 16th century Slavonic manuscript.
12.00-12.25: Georgios Bouldais, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki: The conservation of an early 16th-century Greek bound manuscript.

12.30-13.30: Lunch

Session 3, A: 13.30-15.00

13.30-13.55: Marta Ursescu, Cultural Heritage Restoration - Conservation Centre, National Complex of Museums „Moldova", Sorin Ciovica, Teodor Malutan, Corina Malutan, Gabriela Lisa, The „Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Chemical Engineering: Iron gall inks in Romanian manuscripts between recipes and effects.
14.00-14.25: Ágnes Ádám, National Library of Austria: Conservation of a parchment codex from the 11th century.
14.30-14.55: Monica Stokowiec, independent conservator, London: Conservation of a 17th- century iron gall ink corroded Coptic Manuscript in the library of the Syrian Monastery in Egypt.

15.00-15.30: Coffee break.

Session 4, A & B: 15.30-17.00

15.30-15.55: Joy Boutrup, Kolding School of Design: Some textile bookmarks in
connection with 15th-17th-century religious books.
16.00-16.25: Kouros Samanian, Art University of Tehran: Traditional or modern conservation material and techniques?
16.30-16.55: Gillian C. Boal, Wellcome Library London: The Wellcome Library's Arabic manuscripts: New protocols for cataloguing and housing in the digitisation process.

18.00: Reception Munkekælder, University of Copenhagen, City Campus.

Friday 15 April

Amager: 9:30 - 13:30
Venue: Lecture Hall 23-0-49

Session 1, A: 9.30-10.30

9.30-9.55: Jane Eagan, Oxford Conservation Consortium: Fit for a king: Evidence of the refurbishment of a group of medieval manuscripts for the library of Henry VIII.
10.00-10.25: Nicole Gilroy & Andrew Honey,Conservation & Collection Care, Bodleian Libraries: Contrasting approaches to the conservation of two composite Anselm manuscripts from the 12th century.
10.30-11.00: Coffee

Session 2, A: 11.00-12.30

11.00-11.25: Nil Baydar, freelance conservator, Istanbul: Ottoman calligraphic art panels: structure and conservation.
11.30-11.55: Luz Díaz Galán, Conservation Department of the National Library of Spain: Conservation of a selection of Islamic manuscripts from the National Library of Spain.
12.00-12.25: Anna Soraya, National Library of Indonesia: The preservation of Nusantara manuscripts in Indonesia.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.40: Bus to the Royal Library

Venue: Lecture Hall 23-4-39

Session 1, B: 9.30-10.30

9.30-9.55: Anne Melgård & Chiara Palandri, National Library of Norway: A composite manuscript created by a composite man: Fridtjof Nansen, presentation of the conservation of eight manuscripts in a folder.
10.00-10.25: Georgia Iona, Independent conservator, Germany: The devastating results of adhesive tape: Literature research in context with scientific analysis applied for the conservation of a 19th-century Ottoman manuscript.
10.30-11.00: Coffee

Session 2, B: 11.00-12.30

11.00-11.25: Frank Trujillo: The Morgan Library and Museum, NY: A study of the working methods of the master of Catherine of Cleves.
11.30-11.55: Jacek Tomaszewski, Institute of Oriental Art. Polish Society of Oriental Art, Warsaw: Libri viatici: Protection and usage of portable books in medieval Poland.
12.00-12.25 Justyna Król, Weronika Liszewska, Władysław Sobucki, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw: Conservation of a fragment of a 14th-century illuminated French Bible: Tests of protein consolidants for the flaking lead pigments.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
12.40: Bus to the Royal Library

Royal Library 14.00

John Gillis, National Museum of Ireland: 'Book in a bog': The continuing saga of the Faddan More Psalter.
Michael Marx, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Potsdam: The Qur'an according to Agfa: The Corpus Coranicum project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and its work on the Gotthelf-Bergsträsser-Photoarchive.
Pamela Porter, Curator (retired), British Library: ‘The dog that barked in the night': The codex, clues and curatorial conundrums.
16.30 Reception Royal Library.

Wednesday 14 October

10:00-12:00: Visit to the Department of Preservation of the Royal Library (Address: Lergravsvej 59, Copenhagen S).  This visit is optional and special registration is required. When you register for the seminar please mention whether you want to participate in this event.

Location: Black Diamond, the Royal Library, Denmark.

Session 1A (13:00-15:30)

Words of welcome by Matthew J. Driscoll (The Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) and Erland Kolding Niesel (Royal Library, Copenhagen).

1. Nancy Turner ( J. Paul Getty Museum, US) and Karen Trentelman (Getty Conservation Institute, US) – ‘The Martín de Murúa Project’.
2. Michael B. Toth (Walters Art Museum/R.B.Toth Associates & Doug Emery, Walters Art Museum/Emery IT, Baltimore) – ‘Are digital images really all that matters? Preserving the Archimedes Palimpsest in digital form as a research tool’.

15:30 Registration and reception at the Royal Library.

 

Thursday 15 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9.00: Open house at the Workshops of the Arnamagnæan Institute (Building 27, 2nd floor). Participants are invited to come and visit the conservation workshop and the photographic studio of the Arnamagnæan Institute.

Session 2A (10:00-11:15)

1. Matthew James Driscoll and Eric Haswell (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘ENRICH: the way to a seamless access to information on manuscripts and early printed books’.
2. Jiří Vnouček (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Conservation of the Niebuhr Bible’.
3. Örn Hrafnkelsson (National and University Library, Reykjavík) – ‘The making of a manuscripts digital library. The ÍBR collection, past, present and future’. 

Break 11:15 - 11:45

Session 3A (11:45 – 13:30)

1. Einike Leppik (Tartu Art College / Estonian Historical Archives) – ‘Conservation of the Saint Anthony’s guild book from the 18^thcentury.
2. Ágnes Ádám (Austrian National Library, Vienna) & Éva Doublinszki (National Library, Budapest) – ‘Restoration of the ‘alla greca’ binding: ethical and æsthetic questions in the restoration of Byzantine bindings’.
3. Stamatina Ouzounoglou, Konstantinos Choulis & Artemis Kambouraki (Athens) – ‘Conservation of two post-Byzantine manuscripts from the collections of the Byzantine and Christian Museums of Athens’.
4. Catarina Santos (University of Coimbra) – ‘The conservation of papal and regal lead seals’.

Lunch 13:30 - 14:30

Session 4A (14:30-15:50)

1. Pamela Porter & Charmaine Fagan (British Library) – ‘Manuscript preservation in the British Library: bridging the gap between conservator and curator’.
2. Amanda Engineer (Wellcome Library, London) – ‘Saving private archives: a journey from barn to repository’.
3. Karin Scheper (University Library, Leiden) – ‘Conservation of Islamic manuscripts in a research library’.

Break 15:50 - 16:10

Session 5A (16:10-17:15)

1. Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge (CICS, Institut für Restaurierungs- und Konservierungswissenschaft, Köln) – ‘A masterpiece in transition: results of the examination of Codex Aureus Epternacensis’.
2. Valeria Kobyakova (Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, St. Petersburg) – ‘The 30-volume edition: 'Historical description of uniforms and arms of Russian corps': investigation and conservation’.

17:15 Summing-up.

18:30 Reception in University of Copenhagen’s dungeon, Inner City Campus.

 

Friday 16 October 

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 6A (10:00 – 11:45)

1. Rene Haljasmäe (Academic Library of Tallinn University) – ‘The book as artefact, how to create greater reality through digitisation’.
2. Tine Rauff & Henriette Berg (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘How to move 43.6 shelf km. of books without losing a single meter’.
3. Istvan Kecskeméti (National Archives of Finland) – ‘Condition survey at the National Archives of Finland’.
4. Irakli Iakobashvili (Parliament of Georgia) & Christopher Baruth (American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) – ‘The preservation and utilization of the William Osgood Field Archive of Svanetian materials.’

Lunch 11:45 - 13:00

Session 7A (13:00 – 14:50)

1. Weronika Liszewska & Jacek Tomaszewski (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw) – ‘Conservation and restoration treatment of the 15^thcentury illuminated parchment manuscript of “Missale Vladislaviense”’.
2. Chris Woods (University of the Arts London, Camberwell College) – ‘The care and use of iconic cultural treasures – Magna Carta’.
3. Marco di Bella & Ana Beny (Palermo / Madrid) – ‘An attempt at reconstruction of early bookbinding: the box binding’.
4. Svetlana Uspenskaya (Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, St. Petersburg) – ‘Preservation and access to documental heritage in museums, libraries and archives: the Russian-Dutch project for the development of universal procedures for document assessment (UPA-MAL)’.
   
   

Break 14:50 - 15:15

Session 8A (15:15 – 16:30)

1. Manfred Mayer (University Library, Graz) – ‘Research access to manuscript-fragments by non-destructive methods’.
2. Michael Lerche Nielsen (Institute for Name Research) & Jens Michael Carstensen (Videometer A/S) – ‘Multi-spectral analysis and the next generation of photo-scanning: a non-destructive method of reading the unreadable. Followed by a demonstration of the equipment’.

16:30 Closing session.

Thursday 24 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9:00 Registration.

Session 1A (10:00 - 11:30)

Words of welcome and introduction by Matthew J. Driscoll (The Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen).

1. Niels Borring and Hanne Kolind Poulsen (Statens Museums for Kunst, København) – ’The Flowerbook Gottdorfer Codex: Documentation, conservation and future use’.
2. Örn Hrafnkelsson (Landsbókasafn Ísland, Háskólabóksafn, Reykjavik) – ‘Conservation of manuscripts and private archives in the National and University Library of Iceland: Observations and historical perspectives’.
3. Marianne Lund Petersen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København) – ’Some preliminary results of a preventative surface treatment of medieval wax seals’.

Break 11:30 - 11:50

Session 2A (11:50 - 13:00)

1. Siegfried Heim (Riksarkivet, Stockholm) – ‘Preventive conservation in connection with the re-packing of the collection of medieval parchment documents in the Swedish State Archives’.
2. Jørgen Bech-Andersen (Hussvamp Laboratoriet, Vedbæk) – ’Inactivation of mould spores on manuscripts
3. Emil Ghiocel Ioanid (ICMPP –‘Petru-Poni’ Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi) – ‘High frequency plama – an alternative for the decontamination of paper support manuscripts’.

Lunch 13:00 - 14:30

Session 3A (14:30 - 15:40)

1. John Gillis (National Museum of Ireland, Dublin) – ‘‘Book in a bog’: On the conservation of a medieval vellum manuscript discovered in unique circumstances’.
2. Edward Potten (The John Rylands Library, Manchester) – ‘From printed book to manuscripts – The Nostell Priory Archaionomia’.
3. Sonia Schwoll (formerly London Metropolitan Archives) – ‘The conservation of the first Minute book of the Commission of sewers of Surrey and Kent 1557-1606, SKCS 018’.

Break 15:40 – 16:00

Session 4A (16:00 – 17:15)

1. Istvan Kecskeméti (Kansallisarkisto, Arkistotekninen yksikkö/ National Archives, Archiving Techniques Unit, Finland) – ’Paper identification database: characterization and documentation of early Finnish handmade papers 1667-1720’.
2. Karin Kulneff-Eriksson (Universitetsbiblioteket, Lund) – ’The papyrus collection in Lund’.
3. Andrea Giovannini (Lumino, Schweiz) – ’Gebäudeanalyse und Erstellen eines Konservierungsmasterplans für die Bibliothéque de Genéve’.

17:15 Final remarks.

18:30 Reception in University of Copenhagen’s dungeon, Inner City Campus.

 

Friday 25 April 

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 5A (10:00 – 11:45)

1. Andrew Honey (Bodleian Library, Oxford) – ‘The repair and rebinding history of block books printed in the fifteenth-century now in the Bodleian Library’.
2. Teresa Espejo and Ana Beny (Granada) – ‘Book 1 from the collection of Arabic manuscripts from the Malaga province historical archive: An example of Andalusi binding’.
3. Nil Baydar (Istanbul) – ‘Two case studies: The rejoining of a text block and binding and a new use for remoistenable tissue’.
4. Maria Kalligerou (Oxford Conservation Consortium) – ‘A 10^th century binding for the Georgian manuscript collection in the Library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai’.

Break 10:45 – 11:15

Session 6A (11:15 – 12:30)

1. Guy De Witte (De Zilveren Passer, Gent) – ’Preservation and conservation of Manuscript 404, part of the ‘Magnum Legendarium Flandrense’’.
2. Ilse Entlesberger (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien) – ’Investigation into the causes of atypical browning in the collection of incunabula in the Library of the Karl-Franzens-Universität, in Graz’.
3. Jiřï Vnouček (Det Kongelige Bibliotek, København) & Mark Suchý (Archiv Prazského hradu, Praha) – A conservational database as a precondition for management of manuscript collections in the Prague Castle Archives and some interesting findings from the conservation survey at the metropolitan chapter Library at the Prague Castle Archives’.

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

Session 7A (13:30 – 14:45)

1. Nancy Turner (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) – ‘Cases in reconstructing the fragment: A survey of the conservation treatment of single leaves and cuttings’.
2. Ann-Marie Miller (British Library, London) – ‘The conservation of maps C.29. C13 – the Mercator Atlas of Europe’.
3. Paul Hepworth (Istanbul) – ‘A Khamsa of Nizami in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore’.

Break 14:45 – 15:15

Session 8A (15:15 – 16:00)

1. Athnasios Velios & Nicholas Pickwoad (Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts, London) – ‘An optimized workflow for large-scale condition surveys of book collections’.
2. Bharat Raj Rawat (Manuscript Section, National Museum of Nepal) – ‘Nepalese manuscript conservation’.

16:00 Closing session.

16:45 Visit to the Royal Library.

Thursday 19 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 - 11:30)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg, The Arnamagnæan Institute.

1. Sjöfn Kristjánsdóttir (Landsbókasafn Íslands, Reykjavík) – ‘The history, provenance and condition of the Landsbókasafn collection with focus on some interesting new accessions’.
2. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘England and Iceland: more movement of manuscripts’.
3. Joy Boutrop (Design School, Kolding) – ‘An investigation of silk strings on documents’.

Break 11:30 - 11:45

Session 2A (11:45 - 13:00)

1. Shobhakar Adhikari (National Museum of Nepal) – ‘Traditional methods of paper conservation’.
2. Pia Berntsen (Odense City Museum) – ‘Treatment of iron-gall ink corrosion’.
3. Ingelise Nielsen (School of Conservation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copehagen) – ‘Hans Hansen Skonning – a Danish paper-maker and printer’.

Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

Session 3A (14:00 - 15:15)

1. Ágnes Ádám (National Széchényi Library, Budapest), Weronika Liszewska (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw) and Györgyi Szlabey (University Library, Budapest) – ‘The changes in parments restoration in the last two decades in Hungary. A history of the modifications and results and the related training’.
2. Cheryl Porter (Cambridge) – ‘Pigment analysis on a number of 15^th-century English manuscripts’.
3. Svetlana Uspenskaya (Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, St. Petersborg) – ‘Assessment of documents access and preservation: how to find a compromise between conservators and user’.

Break 15:15 - 15:30

Session 4A (15:30 - 16:15)

1. Sylvie Merian (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York) – ‘Characteristics of Armenian medieval bindings’.
2. Konstantinos Choulis (Athens) - ‘Methodology in connection with the bindings in the Vatican Library’.

18:00 Dinner at Monks’ cellar at University of Copenhagen, Inner City Campus.

 

Friday 20 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9:00-10:00 Open house at the workshop of the Arnamagnæan Institute

Session 5A (10:00 - 11:15)

1. Poul Hepworth and Nil Baydar (Conservation Laboratory, Istanbul) – ‘The conservation treatment and technical study of nine early Ottoman Qurans in the Mevlana Museum in Konya’.
2. Valeria Kobyakova (Military-Historical Museum of Artellery, Engineers and Signal Corps, St. Petersborg) – ‘Synthetic polymers in paper-conservation’.
3. Manfred Mayer (University of Graz, Austria) – ‘Conservationally safe digitization of manuscripts’.

Break 11:15 - 11:30

Session 6A (11:30 - 13:00)

1. Scot McKendrick (British Library, London) – ‘The International Codex Sinaiticus Project: genesis, aims and current progress’.
2. John Mumford (British Library, London) - The International Codex Sinaiticus Project: genesis, aims and current progress’.
3. Athanasios Velios and Nicholas Pickwoard (Camberwell College, London) – ‘The Saint Catherine’s Library Conservation Project: Collecting and managing the survey data’.

Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

Session 7A (14:00 - 15:15)

1. Paulien Rings (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague) – The Fish Book: conservation and research’.
2. Morten Ryhl-Svendsen (School of Conservation, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) – ‘An investigation of the air quality in the manuscript safe at the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen’.
3. Robert Fuchs (University of Applied Sciences, Cologne) – ‘New recipes for glue’.

Break 15:15 - 15:30

Session 8A (15:30 - 16:25)

1.Per Culhed (Department of Conservation, Uppsala University Library) – ‘Binding variants in the Uppsala C-collection of medieval manuscripts’.

2. Marie Vest (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Long-term storage for library collections’.

16:25 Closing session by Gillian Fellows-Jensen (The Arnamagnæan Commission).

16:50 Reception at the Royal Library.

Thursday 14 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 11:15)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen)

1. Niels Bonde (National Museum, Copenhagen) & Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) – ‘Wooden bindings and tree-rings, part 2’.
2. Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir (Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) – ‘”Publish or Perish”. Early Arnamagnæan editions as a means to the care and conservation of manuscripts’.

Break 11:15 – 11:45

Session 2A (11:45 – 13:15)

1. Ted Stanley (Princeton University Library) – ‘The Persian miniature and its conservation’.
2. Nil Baydar (Baskent Vocational School, Ankara University) – ‘Restoration and conservation: Documentation and conservation of Islamic manuscripts from the 11^th century’.
3. Tony Bish (London) & Lara Artemis (Wellcome Trust, London) – ‘The ethics and conservation of a 15^th-century physician’s handbook’.

Lunch 13:15 – 14:15

Session 3A (14:15 – 15:30)

1. Jessica Baldwin (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin) & John Gillis (Trinity College, Dublin) – ‘The conservation of mid-thirteenth century Latin bible from St. Columb’s School, Derry’.
2. Melvin Jefferson (Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium) – The conservation of Chronica Maiora written in St. Albans in the 13^th century by a monk called Matthew Paris and now in the Parker Library at Corpus College Cambridge’.
3. Jiřï Vnouček (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague) & Mark Suchý (Prague Castle Archives) – ‘The story of a fragment of St. Mark’s Gospel through fourteen centuries’.

Break 15:30 – 16:00

Session 4A (16:00 - 17:00)

1. Andrea Giovannini (Bellinzona, Switzerland) – ‘The significance of architectural elements in planning for preservation in archives and libraries’.
2. Jesper Düring Jørgensen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘An account of the solving of a theft’.

18:00 Reception in University of Copenhagen’s dungeon, Inner City Campus.

Friday 15 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 5A (10:00 – 11:00)

1. Magdalena L. Midtgaard (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘On medieval Danish bindings’.
2. Valeria Kobyakova (Military Historical Museum, St. Petersburg) – ‘The conservation of a leather-binding damaged by mould’.

Break 11:00 – 11:30

Session 6A (11:30 – 13:15)

1. Manfred Mayer (University of Graz) – ‘”Man sieht nur das was man kennt”. Schadensphänomene in Inkunabeln’.
2. R. I. Page (Corpus Christi College Cambridge) – ‘Early conservation and the problems it sets us’.
3. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘Preserving the past: England, Iceland and the movement of manuscripts’.

Lunch 13:15 – 14:15

Session 7A (14:15 – 15:30)

1. Poul Klenz Larsen (National Museum, Copenhagen) – ‘Passive climate control in the new safe at the Arnamagnæan collection’.
2. Svetlana Uspenskaya, Valeria Kobyakova (Military Historical Museum, St Peterburg), Gerrit de Bruin & Th. A. G. Steemers (National Archive, the Hague) – ‘A Russian-Dutch project for the development of universal producers for document heritage preservation and access’.
3. David Cooper (Oxford) – ‘The project for the digitization of the manuscripts at St Catherine’s monastery, Mount Sinai’.

Break 15:30 – 16:00

Session 8A (16:00 – 17:00)

1. Giy de Witte (Ghent) – ‘Exhibition conservation: Luxury or necessity? Manuscript exhibition conservation in Bruges’.
2. Jeff Clements (Restauratieatelier, Meridiaan, Amsterdam) – ‘Museum Meermanno, The Museum of the Book in the Hague’.

17:00 Closing session by Gillian Fellow-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commisssion).

Thursday 16 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 11:15)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen)

1. Niels Bonde (National Museum, Copenhagen), Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) & Catherine Lavier (lÚniversité de France-Comté Besancon) – ‘Wooden bindings’.
2. Hersteinn Brynjólfsson & Sigurgeir Steingrímsson (Arnamagnæan Institute, Reykjavik) – ‘The reconservation of Codex Scardensis’.

Break 11:15 – 11:30

Session 2A (11:30 – 12:30)

1. Konstantinos Choulis (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) – ‘New projects for the care and conservation of the manuscripts in the Vatican Library’.
2. Jiřï Vnouček (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague) – ‘The manufacture of parchment for writing purposes and the observation of the signs of manufacture surviving in old manuscripts’.
3. Per Cullhed (Conservation Department, Uppsala University Library) – ‘Ink and pens through 2000 years’.

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

Session 3A (13:30 – 14:30)

1. Abigail Quandt (Walters Art Museum,Curatorial Department, Baltimore, USA) – ‘ The conservation, imaging and transcription of Archimedes Palimpsest’.
2. Augusta Strand (Conservation Department, Uppsala University Library) – ‘The examination and conservation of earlier embroidered repairs in a medieval manuscript’.
3. Jane Eagan (Oxford Conservation Consortium) – ‘A collection of textile bindings once in the library of King Henry VLLL: technical examination and conservation’.

Break 14:30 – 14:45

Session 4A (14:45 – 17:00)

1. Jana Dernovšková & Jana Dřevíkovská (State Central Archives, Prague) – ‘The study of materials to be used for the consolidation of the paint layer in illuminated manuscripts’.
2. Barbara Hassel (Frankfurt/Main) – ‘Conservation of heat-damaged parchment manuscripts’.
3. Andrea Giovannini (Bellinzona, Switzerland) – ‘The influence ofcodicology on restoration: the example of a Byzantine Tetraevangeliar from the XIIth century’.

18:00 Reception in University of Copenhagen’s dungeon, Inner City Campus.

Friday 17 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 5A (10:00 – 10:45)

1. Karsten Friis-Jensen (Institute of Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen) – ‘The Danish connection: the Gotha manuscript of Paul the Deacon and its history’.
2. Jennifer M. Sheppard (Census of Western Medieval Bookbinding Structures) – ‘The findings of phase 1 of the British medieval binding structures census project (bindings in Cambridge)’.

Break 10:45 – 11:00

Session 6A (11:00 – 12:30)

1. Nil Baydar (Baskent Vocational School, Ankara University) – ‘The conservational aspects of Ottoman period manuscripts: Binding decoration and hand tools for making bindings’.
2. Annlinn Krüger Grossman, (Washington D.C.) – ‘Care and conservation of manuscripts at the Library of Congress: An overview’.

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

Session 7A (13:30 – 14:30)

1. Alexander R. Rumble (University of Manchester) – Palaeography, scribal identification, and the preservation of manuscripts’.
2. Valeria Kobiakova (Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering & Signal Corps, St Peterburg) – ‘Biomonitoring of rare books and documents’.
3. Wolfgang Undorf (Unit for Book History, Planning of Stacks and Library Bindings, the Royal Library, Stockholm) – ‘Virtual book history exhibitions’.

Break 14:30 – 14:45

Session 8A (14:45 – 16:15)

1. Nancy Bell (Oxford Conservation Consortium) – ‘A closer look at Cardinal Wolsey’s epistolary and lectionary’.
2. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘German stamped bindings of the 16^th century: a review’.
3. Robert Fuchs (University of Applied Sciences, Cologne) – ‘New recipes for the conservation of leather and parchment bindings’.

16:15 Closing session by Gillian Fellow-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commisssion).

The seminar closed with a glass of wine at the invitation of the Manuscript Department at the Royal Library.

Thursday 18 April

Location: Blixen, the Royal Library, Copenhagen

Session 1A (10:00 – 11:15)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen)

1. Susanne Vogt (Institute of Name Research, University of Copenhagen) – ‘A progress report on the conservation and registration of the Ravnholt archive in the Arnamagnæan Collection’.
2. Michael Chesnutt (Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) – ‘Reconstruction from transcripts: the case of Egils saga in Möruvallabók, an Icelandic codex of the fourteenth century’.
3. René Larsen (School of Conservation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) – ‘Improved damage assessments of parchment’.

Break 11:15 – 11:45

Session 2A (11:45 – 13:00)

1. Dmitri Erastov (Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of Documents, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg) – ‘Use of betaradiography for the investigation of manuscripts. What shall we do now?’
2. Christina Henningsen (School of Conservation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) – ‘An investigation of the use of laser in paper-conservation’.

Lunch 13:00 – 14:00

Session 3A (14:00 - 15:00)

1. Irakli Iakobashvili (Institute of Manuscripts, Georgian Academy of Science, Tbilisi) – ‘The basic steps in the creation of the multimedia electronic version of the archival handwritten catalogue of historical persons participating in military actions in the Caucuses in the nineteenth century’.
2. Ekaterina Krushelnitskaya (Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘The electronic catalogue of manuscript collections of the National Library of Russia: its structure and functions’.
3. Svetlana Uspenskaya (Preservation Service for Cultural and Historical Artifacts, Military Historical Museum of Artillery, St Petersburg) – ‘Digitisation as part of the museum’s preservation programe’.

Break 15:00 – 15:30

Session 4A (15:30 – 16:30)

1. Håkan Tegnestål (Biskopks Arnö) – ‘Medieval writing instruments’.
2. Chris S. Woods (Dorset Archives) – ‘From the sublime to the repetitious: minimalism for all seasons’.    

Reception 18:00 Reception at University of Copenhagen’s dungeon.

Friday 19 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 5A (9:30 – 11:00)

1. Marianne Lund Petersen (Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen), Lena Westling Karlsson (Riksarkivet, Stockholm) & Jørgen Bech Andersen (Hussvamp Laboratoriet, Vedbæk) – ‘The history of the conservation of seals in Danish archives’.
2. Thomas Rydén (Lund University Library) – ‘Documentation of illuminated manuscripts – The equilibrium of detail and pragmatism’.
3. Jesper Düring Jørgensen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Security’.

Break 11:00 – 11:30

Session 6A (11:30 – 13:00)

1. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘German stamped bindings in the British Library manuscript collections – a few surprises’.
2. Agnes Scholla (Nürnberg) – ‘Libri sine asseribus. Research on early western limp bindings’.
3. Robert Fuchs (University of Applied Science, Cologne) – ‘ The history of chemical reinforcement of texts in manuscript. What should we do now?’

Lunch 13:00 – 14:00

Session 7A (14:00 – 15:00)

1. Per Cullhed (Conservation Department, Uppsala University Library) – ‘On the conservation of the Waller collection’.
2. Ildikó Csillag (National Széchényi Library, Budapest) – ‘Conservation of manuscript at the National Széchényi Library’.

Break 15:00 – 15:15

Session 8A (15:15 – 16:15)

1. Lieve Watteeuw (Royal Library, Brussels) – ‘Historical restoration practices and the care of the manuscripts in the fifteenth-century Library of the Duke of Burgundy’.
2. R. I. Page (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) – ‘Sixteenth-century transcripts of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts’.

16:15 Closing session by Gillian Fellow-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commisssion).

The seminar closed with a glass of wine at the invitation of the Manuscript Department at the Royal Library.

Thursday 19 October

Location: Blixen, The Royal Library, Denmark.

Session 1A (10:00 - 11:15)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg, The Arnamagnæan Institute.

1. Matthew J. Driscoll (The Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) – ‘The MASTER project’.
2. Karsten Christensen (University of Copenhagen) – ‘Sixteenth-century Danish bookbindings in the Arnamagnæan Collection: preliminary incursions’.

Break 11:15 - 11:30

Session 2A (11:30 - 13:00)

1. Nathalie Penders & John Havermans (TNO Paper and Board, Delft) – Preventive conservation related to iron-gall ink deterioration’.
2. Gesa Kolbe (Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart) – ‘Gelatine in historical paper-making and present-day restoration of paper manuscripts’.
3. Jana Dernovšková (State Archive of the Czech Republic, Prague) – ‘The conservation survey of the Litoměřice Gradual from the beginning of the 16^th century’.

Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

Session 3A (14:00 - 15:00)

1. Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir (The Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen) – ‘Disaster-planning’.
2. Jiřï Vnouček (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague) – ‘Homiliarium Opatoviciense the conservation of a book as an artefact’.

Break 15:00 - 15:15

Session 4A (15:15 - 17:00)

1. Merete K. Jørgensen (Dictionary of Old Danish, Copenhagen) – ‘The manuscript Codex Holmiensis B74 in the Royal Library, Stockholm: the oldest source for the Dictionary of Old Danish’.
2. Maila d’Aronco (University of Udine) – ‘The traditional facsimile: reproduction or edition? The case of London BL, Cotton Vitellius C.iii’.
3. Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow) – ‘Existence is useless: Copies of Inspeximus Charters from Bury St Edmunds’.
4. Brief presentation by Christopher Sanders of a new digital facsimile edition.

18:00 Reception in University of Copenhagen’s dungeon, Inner City Campus.

 

Friday 20 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 5A (9:45 - 11:15)

1. Martin Strebel (Atelier für Buch- und Papirrestaurierung, Hunzenschwil) – ‘Techiques for preservation and conservation at the St. Gall Abbey Library’.
2. J. A. Szirmai (Oosterbeek) – ‘Conservation binding for medieval codices’.

Break 11:15 - 11:30

Session 6A (11:30 - 13:00)

1. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘Conservation meets exhibition: the theory and practice of lending manuscripts for display’.
2. Jesper Düring Jørgensen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Planning of exhibitions, a few reflections on strategies and organisation’.
3. Magdalena L. Midtgaard (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Exhibition communication’.

Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

Session 7A (14:00 - 15:00)

1. Per Cullhed (University Library, Uppsala) – ‘Brazil wood – An abundant and transient dye’.
2. Jenny Sheppard (Cambridge) – ‘”Make do and mend”; evidence of repairs and the re-use of materials in early bookbindings in a Cambridge college library’.

Break 15:00 - 15:15

Session 8A (15:15 - 16:15)

1.Irakli Iakobashvili (Tbiliai) – ‘Problems of conservation of, and research in, some 9^th- and 10^th-century Georgian manuscripts recently discovered on Mount Sinai’.

2. Robert Fuchs (Fachhochschule Köln) – ‘Old repairs and old restorations in medieval manuscripts’.
3. Poster display by Mark Clarke (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) and Marieke Mejers (Amsterdam) – ‘Simplification of near-infrared visualization techniques for identifying blue pigments in situ on manuscripts’.

16:15 Closing session by Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

Monday 19 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 11:15)

Words of welcome and introduction by Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

1. Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘Types of bindings in the Arnamagnæan Collection’.
2. Susanne Vogt (Institute of Name Research, University of Copenhagen) – ‘Some new accessions at the Arnamagnæan Institute’.

Break 11:15 – 11:30

Session 2A (11:30 – 12:30)

1. Marie Vest (School of Conservation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) – ‘The production and use of alum-tawed leather in the Middle Ages and later’.
2. Dirk Schönbohm ( Restaurierung and Konservierung von graphic, Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart) – ’A technique for treating earlier conservation work on ink-damaged documents’.

Lunch 12:30 – 14:00

Session 3A (14:00 - 15:00)

1. Robert Ruchs (Restaurierung and Konservierung vod Schriftgut, Graphik und Buchmalerei, Fachhochschule Köln) – ‘Pigments, metals, dyes and restoration in medieval book illuminations’.
2. René Larsen (School of Conservation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) – ‘A preliminary report on the EU-project on micro-methods for the analysis of parchment’.

Break 15:00 – 15:15

Session 4A (15:15 – 16:00)

1. Marita Akhøj Nielsen (Dictionary of Old Danish, Copenhagen) – ‘The conservator’s work and literary history: the example of a 17^th-century Danish autobiography’.
2. Stéphane Ipert (Centre du Conservation de livre, Arles) – ‘MANUMED, a cooperation project for Mediterranean manuscripts preservation’.   

Reception 18:00 Reception at University of Copenhagen’s dungeon.

 

Tuesday 29 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

8:30 – 10:00 Open house in the Arnamagnæan Institute and its workshop.

Session 5A (10:15 – 11:15)

1. Jenny Sheppard (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge) – ‘The British census of medieval bindings structures: Recording the evidence’.
2. Paola F. Munafó (Istituto centrale per la patologia del libro, Rome) – ‘The census of medieval bookbindings kept in Italian libraries: a report on our experiences’.

Break 11:15 – 11:30

Session 6A (11:30 – 12:30)

1. Jiří Vnouček (Conservation Department of the National Library of the Czech Reoublic, Prague) – ‘Problems of preservation and conservation of parchment manuscripts’.

Lunch 12:30 – 14:00

Session 7A (14:00 – 16:00)

1. Doris Oltrogge (Restaurierung and Konservierung vod Schriftgut, Graphik und Buchmalerei, Fachhochschule Köln) – ‘Parchment, painting, script and binding: Text on the techniques of manuscripts production from the 15^th century in Germany’.
2. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘Bindings from the Baltic? A curatorial case for preservation (on the library of Duke Albrecht of Prussia (1490-1568) in Königsberg)’.
3. Niels Borring (The Conservation Workshop, Arnamagnæan Collection, University of Copenhagen) – ‘Safe storage versus scholarly use’.

16:15 Closing session by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen).

Guided tour of the new Royal Library Building by Jesper Düring Jørgensen.

Monday 13 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 12:30)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen).

1. Matthew J. Driscoll (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) and Sigurgeir Steingrímsson (Arnamagnæan Institute, Reykjavik) – ‘Digitisation of manuscripts’.
2. Niels Borring (Arnamagnæan Institute’s workshop, Copenhagen) – ‘The ideal and the practical in an African project’.

Break 11:15 – 11:30

Session 2A (11:30 – 12:30)

1. Christina E. Fell (Humanities Research Centre, University of Nottingham) – ‘Pedagogy and the manuscript’.
2. Svetlana V. Uspenskaya (Russian Academy of Science Library, Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of Documents, St Petersburg) – ‘Training in the care and conservation of manuscripts: the need and the reality’.

Lunch 12:30 - 13:30

Session 3A (13:30 - 15:00)

1. Jesper Düring Jørgensen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Conservation versus exhibition – the dilemma’.
2. Inna P. Mokretsova (State Research Institute for Restoration, Moscow) – ‘Temporary and permanent exhibition of manuscripts – an unresolved problem for curators and restorers’.
3. Sjöfn Kristjánsdóttir (National Library, Reykjavik) – ‘How to reach ab acceptable compromise between the user and the conservator?’

Break 15:00 – 15:15

Session 4A (15:15 – 16:00)

1. Pamela Porter (British Library, London) – ‘Raising the dust: reassessing conservation priorities for the move to the new British Library’.
2. Andrew Prescott /British Library, London) – ‘The electronic Beowulf and digital restoration’.  

17:30 Guided tour by Ejvind Slottved of the old university buildings.

Reception 18:30 Reception at University of Copenhagen’s dungeon.

 

Tuesday 14 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9:00 – 10:00 Open house in the Arnamagnæan Institute and its workshop.

Session 5A (10:00 – 11:00)

1. John Havermans and Pieter Marres (TNO Centre for Paper and Board Research, Delft) – ‘UPPA; the development of a universal procedure for archive assessment’.
2. Dmitri P. Erastov (Russian Academy of Science Library, Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of Documents, St Petersburg) – ‘Storage, usage, conservation and restoration of manuscripts – a united philosophy’.

Break 11:00 – 11:15

Session 6A (11:15 – 12:15)

1. Robert Fuchs (Restaurierung und Konservierung von Schriftgut, Fachhochschule köln) – ‘Problems with stabilization of flaking illuminations in manuscripts’.
2. Olga V. Vasilieva (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘Care and conservation of Hebrew manuscripts in the National Library of Russia: history, problems and questions’.

Lunch 12:15 - 13:30

Session 7A (13:30 – 14:30)

1. Svetlana A. Dobroussina (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘Library holdings: preservation and questions’.  
2. Hubert Seelow (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – ‘Problemfall Volsung saga’.

Break 14:30 – 14:45

Session 8A (14:45 – 16:15)

1. Eva Nilsson Nylander (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome) – ‘Bindings of the popes – conservation and use of the Codices Reginenses Latini at the Vatican Library’.

16:15 Closing session by Gillian Fellow-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

Monday 14 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 12:30)

Words of welcome and introduction by Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen).

1. Marianne Overgaard (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘The organization of the photography and restoration of manuscripts prior to their transfer to Iceland in the period 1971-96’.
2. Niels Borring (Arnamagnæan Institute’s workshop, Copenhagen) and Elin L. Pedersen (Arnamagnæan Institute’s photographic studio, Copenhagen) – ‘Strategies for the conservation and storage of the photographic material in the Arnamagnæan Institute’.
3. Inna P. Mokretsova (State Research Institute for Restoration, Moscow) – ‘Photographic methods for the examination of medieval manuscripts’.

Lunch 12:30 - 13:30

Session 2A (13:30 - 15:00)

1. D. P. Erastov (Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of Documents, the Library of the Academy of Science, St Petersborg) – ‘Optico-photographic methods in research in manuscripts and in the visualization of invisible texts’.
2. Wolgang Undorf (Conservation Department of the Royal Library, Stockholm) – ‘Preserving to access: Are photographic and digital techniques well-suited methods for preserving manuscripts and books from the users’ point of view?’

Break 15:00 – 15:15

Session 3A (15:15 – 16:00)

1. Leonard E. Boyle (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rom) – ‘The digitization of manuscripts and conservation’.
2. Jonas Palm (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – Digitasation as a means of preservation’.

17:30 Guided tour by Ejvind Slottved of the old university buildings.

Reception 18:30 Reception at University of Copenhagen’s dungeon.

 

Tuesday 15 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9:00 – 10:00 Open house in the Arnamagnæan Institute and its workshop.

Session 4A (10:00 – 12:00)

1. Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge (Restaurierung und Konservierung von Schriftgut, Fachhochschule, Köln) – ‘Modern scientific manuscript research and conservation’.
2. John Havermans (TNO Centre for Paper and Board Research, Delft) – ‘Information carriers: from stone to polymer, a critical review’.

Lunch 12:00 - 13:00

Session 5A (13:00 – 15:15)

1. Cheryl Porter (University College London) – ‘The medieval blues – A simple technique for basic identification’.
2. Nicholas Hadgraft (Cambridge College Library Conservation Consortium) – ‘The bookbinder, the pilgrim and fifteenth-century book structure’.
3. Melvin Jefferson (Cambridge College Library Conservation Consortium) – ‘Photography to create a historic and conservation record using basic equipment’.

Break 15:15 – 15:30

Session 6A (15:30 – 16:15)

1. Erik Petersen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘The archaeology of text of codices’.

16:15 Closing session by Gillian Fellow-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

Monday 16 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 12:30)

Words of welcome and introduction by Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

1. Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘The care taken by Árni Magnússon of the manuscripts in his collection. A study of records’.
2. Mette Jakobsen (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘Birgitte Dall’s workshop’.
3. John Havermans (TNO Centre for Paper and Board Research, Delft) – ‘An overview of research at TNO related to paper ageing and conservation’.

Lunch 12:30 - 13:30

Session 2A (13:30 – 16:15)

1. Inna P. Mokretsova (State Research Institute for Restoration, Moscow) – ‘The problems of conservation of illuminated manuscripts on parchment’.
2. Larissa G. Levashova (Russian Academy of Science Library, St Petersburg) – ‘Research in, and conservation of, medieval illuminated manuscripts on parchment’.
3. Svetlana A. Dobrusina (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘Preservation of 16^th-17^th-century foreign atlases in the National Library of Russia’.  

17:00 Guided tour by Ejvind Slottved of the old university buildings.

Reception 19:30 Reception at University of Copenhagen’s dungeon.

 

Friday 17 October

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

9:00-10:00 Open house in the Arnamagnæan Institute and its workshop.

Session 3A (10:00 – 12:15)

1. Olga V. Vasilieva (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘Codicological analysis of manuscripts by means of modern optico-electronic methods and the problems of restoration’.
2. Svetlana A. Dobrusina (National Library of Russia, St Petersburg) – ‘Mechanized methods in manuscript conservation in the conservation department of the National Library of Russia’.
3. Svetlana V. Uspenskaya (Russian Academy of Science Library, St Petersburg) – ‘Plasma-chemical methods of conservation of miniatures in manuscripts’.

Lunch 12:15 - 13:15

Session 4A (13:15 – 14:45)

1. Yuri Anhimjuk (Russian State Library, Moscow) – ‘The measures taken for the safety and conservation of manuscripts in the Russian State Library’.
2. Alexander R. Rumble (University of Manchester) – ‘Conservation and the user: the medieval manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library, Manchester’.

14:45 General discussion and plans for the future seminars.

16:00 Guided tour of the Royal Library by Jesper Düring Jørgensen, Steen Bille Larsen and Birgitte Possing.

Thursday 25 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 1A (10:00 – 12:00)

Words of welcome and introduction by Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Arnamagnæan Commission).

1. R. I. Page (Cambridge) – ‘The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: some approaches and discoveries’.
2. Christopher Clarkson (West Dean College, Chichester) – ‘The principles of book conservation’.

Lunch 12:00 - 13:00

Session 2A (13:00 - 15:00)

1. Nicholas Hadgraft (Cambridge) – ‘The significance of archaeology of the book in the context of conservation work’.
2. Discussion of the day’s lectures.

16:00 Visit to the Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Conservation.

Reception 19:30 Reception at the Royal Library.

 

Friday 26 April

Location: University of Copenhagen, South Campus.

Session 3A (10:00 – 12:00)

1. Søren Carlsen (Royal Library, Copenhagen) – ‘Aspects of documentation and conservation’.
2. Peter Springborg (Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen) – ‘The work of conservation carried out under the auspices of the institute’.
3. Sigurgeir Steingrímsson (Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland, Reykjavik) – ‘The care of the manuscripts in the institute’.
4. Ögmundur Helgason (Landsbókasafn (National Library of Iceland), Reykjavik) – ‘Kort oversigt over bevaring af håndskrifter og gamle trykte bøger i Islands Nationalbibliotek’.

Lunch 12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Visit to the Arnamagnæan Institute and its workshops.  

14:30 General discussions and plans for future seminars.