Preface ix Roni Anaki Is gevil, the ''Jewish parchment'', really a parchment? An investigation and preliminary assessment of modern gevil''s characteristics 1 Katherine Beaty, Rachel Bissonnette & Kathryn Kenney Rehousing sacred Tibetan Buddhist materials at Harvard-Yenching Library. Considering materiality and spirituality 21 Alberto Campagnolo & al. Skins, structures and traces. Material culture investigations of Cambrai''s medieval manuscripts 41 Ying-Chern Chen & Wan-Jen Lin Customised preservation strategy for local literary institutions. A case study of Zi-Xia Hall 75 Eliana Dal Sasso The effect of text-focused interest on the preservation of Coptic bookbinding 91 Fenella G. France, Pádraig Ó Macháin & Andrew Forsberg Developing a visualisation model for spectroscopic and other data from medieval Irish manuscripts 109 Mary Hamilton French & Bexx Caswell-Olson Hidden layers. Conservation of a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Kashmiri birch bark manuscript 125 Robert Fuchs & Doris Oltrogge A look at workshop practices in Zürich. Illuminating secular manuscripts around 1300 147 Zoitsa Gkinni Ethics and decision-making in conservation.
The paradigm of codices 165 Esben Bukh Glindvad A comparative technical analysis of pigments used in twelve mediaeval manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, Copenhagen 187 Sarah Graham The registers of the Archbishops of Armagh. Assessing condition, composition and historic repairs to increase access and conservation engagement 201 Paul Hepworth The Shah Tahmasp Album. Its makers and their intentions 211 Christa Hofmann & al. Questions to Dagulf. On the Psalterium Codex 1861 at the Austrian National Library 231 Theofanis Karafotias & al. Recycled materials in manuscripts. The case of the Pierre Barbatre ''Account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land'' from the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection 249 Salsawit Assefa Kassaye Critical review of Ethiopic manuscript digitisation projects 275 Chantal Kobel Tradition and innovation in the materiality of medieval Gaelic law manuscripts 283 Yoshiko Kondo & Luana Maekawa Treatment strategies and decisions. Conservators'' choices for iron gall ink preservation 303 Wan-Jen Lin & Bor-Tung Jiang An interdisciplinary approach to seeing and recording.
Automated visual recognition for identifying paper deterioration and data preparation for AI learning 315 Mary Minicka A tale of two bookbinders. A reclamation of artisan history at the Cape of Good Hope explored through archival records, 1795-1870 341 Ekaterina Pasnak Stationery bindings from the Norwegian Sea Trade Archive (Nordlandshandelarkiv) in the University Library of Bergen 361 Marina Pelissari & Rachel Sawicki Curious cures. The conservation of medieval medical manuscripts in Cambridge libraries 387 Clare Prince Unkindest cuts. The conservation of a recently vandalised twelfth-century Bible leaf 405 Abigail B. Quandt A living tradition. An introduction to the production and use of Orthodox Christian manuscripts in Ethiopia from the pre-modern era to the present day 419 Godelieva van der Randen Stratification of historic repairs. Complex decision-making in the treatment of an eleventh-century Arabic Materia medica 461 Alessandro Sidoti The conservation of the Jewish scroll of the National Library of Florence 481 Holly Smith & Katerina Williams Twists, turns and tackets. Designing and undertaking a survey to study The National Archives'' early limp parchment binding collection 507 Angeliki Stassinou & al.
Parchment covers and leather tacket blocks. Notarial bindings from the General State Archives of Greece (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries), a preliminary study 523 Bridget Warrington & J.D. Sargan Assessment of the boards and historical slip repairs of the Castle Acre Processional using micro-computed X-ray tomography and radiocarbon dating 547 Mariko Watanabe-Hirano Conservation of a diary written by a British civilian internee in Singapore 563 Melania Zanetti, Anne-Laurence Dupont & Alfonso Zoleo New technologies in conservation. Nanocomposites in the treatment of paper-based written heritage damaged by fire 577 Index of manuscripts 601.