Wednesday 19 April

Session 1A (9:30-11:00)
Chair: Matthew Driscoll

1. Jiří Vnouček (Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen), Matthew Teasdale & Sarah Fiddyment (Cambridge University) – ‘Parchment of Icelandic manuscripts’.
2. Vasarė Rastonis (Árni Magnússon Institute, Reykjavík) – ‘The present state of Flateyjarbók’.
3. Richard Hark, Raymond Clemens & Paula Zyats (Yale University) – ‘The material history of portolan maps’.

Session 1B (9:30-11:00)
Chair: Seán Vrieland

1. Camilla Roversi Monaco & Carlotta Letizia Zanasi (Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna) – ‘The archaeological restoration of the “English Psalter of Imola” (a 13th-century parchment manuscript) and the use of PVA-Borax hydrogel for some cleaning phases’.
2. Nagah Saada (Egyptian Museum of Cairo) – ‘Eco-friendly nanomaterials evaluation and utilization for sustainable preservation of documentary heritage based on parchment against microbial biodeterioration’.
3. Roni Anaki (West Dean College) – ‘Gevil, the Jewish parchment: Is it truly parchment?’

Break 11:00-11:30

Session 2A (11:30-13:00)
Chair: Élodie Lévêque

1. Nicole Volmering (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Ruling and pricking in Irish manuscripts: An evaluation of practice in manuscripts dating pre-900’.
2. John Gillis (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Hidden in plain sight: The binding boards of the Book of Armagh’.
3. Fenella France, Andrew Forsberg (Library of Congress) & Pádraig Ó Macháin (UC Cork) – ‘Over and under: Revealing the inner workings of the Irish manuscript tradition’.

Session 2B (11:30-13:00)
Chair: Helene Forum Winther

1. Holly Smith & Katerina Williams (National Archives, Kew) – ‘Twists, turns and tackets: Designing and undertaking a survey to study The National Archives’ (UK) early limp parchment binding collection’.
2. Angeliki Stassinou (General State Archives of Greece), Konstantinos Choulis (University of West Attica), Ioannis Kokkonas (Ionian University) & Georgia Alexopoulou (University of West Attica) – ‘Parchment covers and leather tackets: Notarial bindings from the General State Archives of Greece’.
3. Ágnes Ádám (Austrian National Library) – ‘Conservation of a 14th-century limp binding: How much intervention is necessary?’

Lunch 13:00-14.00

Session 3A (14:00-15:00)
Chair: René Hernández Vera

1-2. Élodie Lévêque (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Antoine Brix (University of Namur), Alberto Campagnolo (UC Louvain) & Sarah Fiddyment (Cambridge University) – ‘Cambrai medieval manuscripts and bindings’.

Session 3B (14:00-15:00)
Chair: Natale Vacalebre

1-2. Lydia Aikenhead (Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Marie-France Lemay (Yale University Library) & Francisco H. Trujillo (The Morgan Library, New York) – ‘Bembo’s Milieu: Contextualizing the influences, materials, and production of the Visconti-Sforza tarocchi cards within 15th-century northern Italian artistic and manuscript practice’.

Break 15:00-16:00

Session 4A (16:00-17:30)
Chair: Seán Vrieland

1. Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge (Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, TH Köln) – ‘A view into a 13th-century workshop for book illumination’.
2. Lisa Havelange (University of Liege) – ‘The Wittert 41 manuscript: Technical approaches to a 19th-century illuminated manuscript’.
3. Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven) – ‘Touched, sworn, used and restored: The study and conservation of the 11th-century illuminated Evangeliarium of Susteren’.

Session 4B (16:00-17:30)
Chair: Matthew Driscoll

1. Chantal Kobel (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) – ‘Paper use and print influence in Irish legal manuscripts, c. 1500–1800’.
2. Jessica Baldwin (National Archives of Ireland) – ‘Pulled from the rubble: Conserving Ireland’s “lost” archive”.
3. Sarah Graham (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland) – “The registers of the Archbishops of Armagh: Assessing condition, composition and previous repairs to inform future treatment’.

Reception 17:30-19:00

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics and the Arnamagnæan Institute invite all participants to a reception in the Law Canteen.