Thursday 14 April 2016
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