Nicoleta Vorniecu, Maria Geba et al.: Ancient religious books of the Moldavian Metropolitan Library: Conservation and Investigations

The paper presents the most valuable religious books from a collection of 10,000 volumes of old books located in the Diocesan Centre in Iasi. Conservation status will be described and it will present an XRF analysis and FT-IR for 25 volumes from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The paper will provide a discussion of the types of inks, paper and bindings used, as well as the writing techniques, watermarks and mineral pigment used in ornamentation. This paper aims to present a study of non-invasive methods of analysis applied directly to the book.