Thursday 20 April

Session 5A (9:00-10:30)
Chair: Helene Forum Winther

1. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed (Ain Shams University, Cairo) – ‘Collection management of Islamic manuscripts at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo: Study for conservation and digitization’.
2. Eliana Dal Sasso (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture, Hamburg) – ‘The effect of the text-focused interest on the preservation of Coptic bookbinding’.


Session 5B (9:00-10:30)
Chair: Matthew Driscoll

1. Zoitsa Gkinni (National Library of Greece) – ‘Ethics and decision making in the conservation of codices’.
2. Alessandro Sidoti (National Central Library, Florence) – ‘The conservation of the Jewish Scroll of the National Library of Florence’.
3. Marie Kaladgew, Paulina Kralka & Marya Muzart (British Library, London) – ‘Rethinking digitisation as a preservation strategy: Lessons learnt from the Lotus Sutra project at the British Library 2017-2022’.

Break 10:30-11:00

Session 6A (11:00-13:00)
Chair: René Hernández Vera

1. Mary French (Boston Public Library) & Bexx Caswell-Olson (Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover MA) – ‘Hidden layers: Conservation of a 16-17th-century Kashmiri birch bark manuscript’.
2. Ekaterina Pasnak (University Library of Bergen) – ‘Stationery bindings from the Norwegian Sea Archive, University Library of Bergen’.
3. Michela Clemente (‘Sapienza’ University of Rome) & Federica Delìa (Academy of Fine Arts, Rome) – ‘Analysis and conservation treatments of two Buddhist manuscripts preserved in the Tucci Tibetan collection at the “IsIAO Library”’.
4. Ann-Marie Miller (Codex Conservation, London) – ‘A stitch in time: Conserving the fabric sample books for the Liberty Archive’.


Session 6B (11:00-13:00)
Chair: Matthew Driscoll

1-2. Jérémy Delmulle, Hanno Wijsman (IRHT-CNRS), Krista Murchison (Leiden University), Claudia Rabel & Joanna Fronska (IRHT-CNRS)– ‘Caring for lost manuscripts’.
a. Jérémy Delmulle – ‘Repairing losses: How to restore speech to manuscripts missing in wartime?’
b. Hanno Wijsman – ‘The Ephemerous Leuven University Library of the interwar period (1917-1940)’.
c. Krista Murchison – ‘The manuscripts of the Bibliothèque municipale of Metz and the Battle of Metz of 1944’.
d. Claudia Rabel & Joanna Fronska – ‘Lost, but not all: Studying the damaged manuscripts from Chartres’.
3. Wan-Jen Lin (National Museum of Taiwan Literature) & Bor-Tung Jiang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan) – ‘An interdisciplinary approach of preventive conservation: Automated visual recognition for deterioration on manuscripts’.
4. Catarina Pinheiro, Ana Teresa Caldeira (Évora University), Catarina Fernandes Barreira & Maria da Conceição Casanova (NOVA University of Lisbon) – ‘Parchment biodeterioration: Recent advances and contributions’.

Lunch 13:00-14.00

Session 7A (14:00-15:30)
Chair: Matthew Driscoll

1. Katherine Beaty (Harvard University Libraries), Rachel Bissonnette & Kathryn Kenney (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC) – ‘Rehousing Pothi format books from the Harvard-Yenching Library: Considering materiality and spirituality’.
2. Abigail Quandt (The Walters, Baltimore) – ‘A living tradition: An introduction to the production and use of manuscripts in Ethiopia from the sixth century to the present day’.


Session 7B (14:00-15:30)
Chair: Giovanni Verri

1. Mandana Barkeshli (UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur) – ‘Shades of coloured papers in medieval Persian manuscripts using blue turnsole (kabudak): History, material technology and reconstruction’.
2. Nil Baydar (General Directorate for Manuscripts in Turkey, Istanbul) – ‘A study of paper in Mehmed II’s manuscript collection’.

Break 15:30-16:00

Session 8A (16:00-17:30)
Chair: Anne Mette Hansen

1. Chanelle Briffa & Vanessa Buhagiar (Notarial Archives of Malta) – ‘Giuseppe De Marco: A codicological and palaeographical examination of the works of an eighteenth-century medical practitioner’.
2. Rachel Sawicki & Marina Pelissari (Cambridge University Library) – ‘Curious cures: The conservation of medieval medical manuscripts in Cambridge libraries’.
3. Godelieva van der Randen (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden) – ‘The stratification of historic repairs: Complex decisions in the conservation of the 11th-century Materia Medica’.


Session 8B (16:00-17:30)
Chair: Giovanni Verri

1. Jarmila Kodrič (Independent conservator, Trieste), Elena Badea (ARCH Lab, Bucharest), Claudia Benvestito (Marciana National Library, Venice), Cristina Carsote (CCIS, National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest), Emanuel Hadimbu (ARCH Lab, Bucharest) & Andrea Pataki-Hundt (Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, TH Köln) – ‘Are old conservation treatments the new challenges? The case of St. Mark’s books’.
2. Esben Bukh Glindvad (Royal Danish Library) – ‘A comparative technical analysis of pigments used in 12 mediaeval manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection’.
3. Christa Hofmann (Austrian National Library), Dubravka Jembrih-Simbürger (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna), Maurizio Aceto (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Jiří Vnouček (Royal Danish Library) & Thomas Rainer (University of Zurich) – ‘Questions to Dagulf’.

Conference dinner 19:00-21:00 In the HUM canteen in building 23. 

(seperate registration needed)