CONSERVING ELEVEN LATE MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS FOR LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY
Lien Gyles|Ian Maver
This paper discusses the treatment of 11 late mediaeval manuscript volumes for Liverpool University. Three MSS retained contemporary bindings, but all had been interfered with and none was in a stable condition. The remaining eight bound eighteenth nineteenth centuries, unsatisfactory results. Methods situ repair are considered, methods humidifying, flattening repairing vellum leaves dismantled volumes. Treatment original bindings design new conservation described.
Studies in Conservation