INTACH (Dehli)

Conservation of a manuscript with one binding inside the other
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Conservation of a manuscript with one binding inside the other

It is not uncommon to find waste material as part of a binding (parchment manuscripts, for instance), but quite much rare when the previous and original binding is part of the boards layers of the current recycled binding! The outer and visible binding belonged first to a former book, and the hidden binding, to the current, one... crazy!

Lecture: ‘Reversibility in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
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Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)

Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]

Lecture: “Reversible vs Irreversible” (Cores Symposium, Brugge)
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Lecture: “Reversible vs Irreversible” (Cores Symposium, Brugge)

Event: Cores Symposium. Dilemmas: Between cherishing [...]

Conservation of leather binding with an iron lock
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Conservation of leather binding with an iron lock

Bound manuscript with lock inlay. Full leather renaissance binding with brass bosses and iron clasps. An iron inlay on both covers locks the book. It has blind tooling decoration (rectangles and flowers). Handwritten laid paper folios. It is a register of the builders working by that time in Barcelona (1766). Conservation treatment: Reinforcement of the structure (loose covers, broken thongs). Cleaning of the binding, fixing the stuck lock and conservation treatment of further metallic elements (clasps and bosses). Dry cleaning of folios and tear mending.