Suave Mechanicals
Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781940965161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781940965161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Abigail Bainbridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-27
Total Pages: 893
ISBN-13: 1000839311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conservation of Books is the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation, offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject. The volume takes an international approach to its subject. Written by over 70 specialists in conservation and conservation science based in 19 countries, its 26 chapters cover traditional book structures from around the world, the materials from which they are made and how they degrade, and how to preserve and conserve them. It also examines the theoretical underpinnings of conservation: what and how to treat, and the ethical, cultural, and economic implications of treatment. Technical drawings and photographs illustrate the structures and treatments examined throughout the book. Ultimately, readers gain an in-depth understanding of the materiality of books in numerous global contexts and reflect on the practical considerations involved in their analysis and treatment. Conservation of Books is a quintessential reference work for book conservators and anyone working with books, such as collection managers, librarians, curators, dealers, collectors, historians, and related professionals. It is also an indispensable text for students to complement hands-on training in this field.
Author: Alessandro Bausi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 3111292312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term ‘binding’. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities, convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge.
Author: Jan Dusek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 3110617307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan history, culture and linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring a new look on the topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic written sources, to the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well as to the contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.
Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781940965055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780979797453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karin Scheper
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9004387269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding explores the development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. From a craft-based perspective, Karin Scheper analyses the diverse material characteristics and demonstrates the information value of the materiality.
Author: Garrick Vernon Allen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-05-08
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 3110781344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient literature and its interpretation, papyrology, and the ethics of collecting and scholarship. Ninety years after Beatty acquired these manuscripts, their value for scholarship and culture remains largely unexplored"--
Author: Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1800649622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.