Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Dr Gillian Fellows-Jensen is associate professor in the Department of Name Research at the University of Copenhagen. Peter Springborg, MA, is the director of The Arnamagnaan Institute (Old Norse Studies) at the University of Copenhagen.