Care and Conservation of Manuscripts

Wooden Bindings and Tree-Rings. A Preliminary Report; Wood in the History of Medieval Book Techniques: Aims and Know-How -- First Restorations; Codex Scardensis: History and Restoration; New Projects for the Care and Conservation of the Manuscripts in the Vatican Library; The Manufacture of Parchment for Writing Purposes and the Observation of the Signs of manufacture Surviving in Old Manuscripts; Pens and Ink Through 2,000 Years -- A World of Words; The Examination and Conservation of a Medieval Manuscript with Embroidered Repairs: A Textile Binding Once the Library of Henry VIII -- Technical Examination and conservation; The Study of Materials Used for the Consolidation of the Pan Layer in Illuminated Manuscripts; Conservation Treatments of a Heat-Damaged Parchment Manuscript; Kodikologie und Restaurierung -- der Kodex BPU Geneve Ms Gr 19; The Danish Connection: The Gotha Manuscript of Paul the Deacon and its History; The Census of Western Medieval Bookbinding Structures to 1500 in British Libraries, Stage One: Cambridge. A Final Report -- and a Glimpse of Some 'Treasures'; Conservation Aspects of Ottoman Period Manuscripts: Binding Decoration and Hand Tools for Making Bindings; Care and Conservation of Manuscripts at the Library of Congress: An Overview; Palaeography, Scribal Identification and the Study of Manuscript Characteristics; Biomonitoring of Rare Books and Archive Documents; Digital Ephemera -- Virtual Book History Exhibitions as Historical Resources; German Stamped Bindings from the Sixteenth Century on British Library Manuscripts: A Review; New Trends in the Care of Leather and Parchment.