"This collection of articles discusses how to preserve and conserve old manuscripts for the future and will be of particular interest to research librarians. To

Contents: R.I. Page: The research group on manuscript evidence: Some approaches and discoveries; Nicholas Hadgraft: The significance of the archaeology of the b

Through the application of scientific methods of analysis to a corpus of medieval manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah, this work aims to gain a better unders

This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that

The conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite