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De Gruyter eBooks, Jul 23, 2023
The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early a... more The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early and undisturbed bookbindings from several different East Mediterranean bookbinding traditions, including Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Ethiopic and Slavonic. How have these books survived to date, what was their use and how does their use relate to the need for bookbinding renovations in the monastic environment? This paper examines the major bookbinding tendencies in the monastery and discusses the relationship between manuscript production, bookbinding and the renovation of manuscripts by binders at St Catherine's monastery throughout the centuries.
Conservation at the National Library of Greece: the transition's aftermath
Library Management
PurposeThe National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and since 1903 it had been housed... more PurposeThe National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and since 1903 it had been housed at the Vallianeio building, a landmark in the center of Athens. With a history of nearly two centuries and significant collections, the library moved its headquarters to its new building at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in 2018. This transfer marks its transition to a new era, a restart for the library and an opportunity for upgrades, improvements and expansion of its services, redefinition of its role and connection to society. In this context, the conservation department contributed greatly to this program, to the successful transfer of collections and paved the way for its upgraded role at its new facilities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reflects on the transition program and part of the projects executed, in terms of expectations and the new reality, under the scope of conservation of collections'. With a critical view, the authors present the Conservat...
The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establ... more The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establishment its collections were transferred and housed in various venues. In 1903, the Library moved to an imposing neoclassical marble building at the city center that stands out as one of Athens landmarks. In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that included the construction of new facilities for the National Library and the National Opera, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park. This significant project is now completed and the NLG, after more than a century, is ready to move once again. By fall 2017, all collections will be transferred to the new 22,000 m² facilities that provide suitable conditions and modern infrastructure for the preservation, digitization and use if its collections. Thus, in 2016, the pace of preparation for the transfer of collections has been intensified. This paper disc...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding, 2023
The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early a... more The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early and undisturbed bookbindings from several different East Mediterranean bookbinding traditions, including Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Ethiopic and Slavonic. How have these books survived to date, what was their use and how does their use relate to the need for bookbinding renovations in the monastic environment? This paper examines the major bookbinding tendencies in the monastery and discusses the relationship between manuscript production, bookbinding and the renovation of manuscripts by binders at St Catherine's monastery throughout the centuries.
Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manus... more Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manuscript collection 1 Katarzyna Anna Kapıtan: Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks: A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts Jıří Vnouček: Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so Marıeka Kaye: Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts Chantal Kobel: The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337) Sarah Kılroy: The Birmingham Qurʾan manuscript: An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation Krıstıne Rose-Beers: Preparing to conserve an early Qurʾan manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty: Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book 107 v Nil Baydar: Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century: Kashf al-Bayān an Sifāt al-Hayawān Rebecca Honold: Same, same but different: The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel Julıa Poırıer: A short review of Samaritan binding practices: A closer look at wooden endband plate structure Georgıos Boudalıs: The codex and crafts in late antiquity Gıada Genua & Marco Dı Bella: Codex Ms02: Conservation of a restoration Gayane Elıazyan & al.: The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
Care and conservation of manuscripts, 2021
Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manus... more Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manuscript collection 1 Katarzyna Anna Kapıtan: Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks: A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts Jıří Vnouček: Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so Marıeka Kaye: Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts Chantal Kobel: The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337) Sarah Kılroy: The Birmingham Qurʾan manuscript: An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation Krıstıne Rose-Beers: Preparing to conserve an early Qurʾan manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty: Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book 107 v Nil Baydar: Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century: Kashf al-Bayān an Sifāt al-Hayawān Rebecca Honold: Same, same but different: The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel Julıa Poırıer: A short review of Samaritan binding practices: A closer look at wooden endband plate structure Georgıos Boudalıs: The codex and crafts in late antiquity Gıada Genua & Marco Dı Bella: Codex Ms02: Conservation of a restoration Gayane Elıazyan & al.: The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
The Aksumite Collection or Codex Σ (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā , MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio- SPaRe UM-039): Codicological and Palaeographical Observations. With a Note on Material Analysis of Inks
APPENDIX IV-Technical specificcations and the survey database 103 App.IV 1 Technical specificatio... more APPENDIX IV-Technical specificcations and the survey database 103 App.IV 1 Technical specifications and procedures for the scanning of rubbings 103 App.IV 3-Manuscript Forrn 106 App.IV 4-RUBBINGS FORM 114 App.IV 5-The process of superimposing rubbings 122
2nd IMCDEA Conference Proceedings, 2021
Recent History of the Area and the Centre Numérique des Manuscrits Orientaux (CNMO) in Erbil The ... more Recent History of the Area and the Centre Numérique des Manuscrits Orientaux (CNMO) in Erbil The CNMO was created in 1990 by Father Michael Najeeb, to house the continuous efforts to foster the collection and the recording of ancient manuscripts from the Dominican Order of Northern in Iraq but also of all Christian manuscripts of the area. The centre's task was to look for, to digitize, to catalogue and to promote the Christian manuscript culture of the North of Iraq in the areas of Christian tradition which runs back as early as the 4 th century in the Nineve Valley, with numerous monasteries and churches and references to them as testimony.
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17, 2021
The National Library of Greece holds one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts worldwid... more The National Library of Greece holds one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts worldwide, comprising of approximately 5,500 bound volumes and scrolls from as early as the 9th century AD. Housed since 1903 in an imposing historic building at the centre of Athens, the National Library of Greece is currently undergoing a challenging transition to a new era and a necessary move to a new home. Following a massive development project at the Athenian coastline funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, new facilities have been constructed for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that includes the National Library, the National Opera and the Stavros Niarchos Park. The library is fully engaged in a complex project to achieve this transition.
This paper discusses the challenges that were faced by the Conservation Department of the National Library of Greece towards moving one of the rarest Greek manuscript collections. It further describes the planning and actions that were followed by the Conservation Department to ensure the safe and successful transfer of the collection. This massive endeavor, included a wide range of activities that attend to preservation, such as preparatory actions, risk assessment management, remedial and preventive conservation actions, packing and finally the transfer and reorganization of the collection at the new facilities.
The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establ... more The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establishment its collections were transferred and housed in various venues. In 1903, the Library moved to an imposing neoclassical marble building at the city center that stands out as one of Athens landmarks. In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that included the construction of new facilities for the National Library and the National Opera, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park. This significant project is now completed and the NLG, after more than a century, is ready to move once again. By fall 2017, all collections will be transferred to the new 22,000 m² facilities that provide suitable conditions and modern infrastructure for the preservation, digitization and use if its collections. Thus, in 2016, the pace of preparation for the transfer of collections has been intensified. This paper discusses the preservation planning and actions regarding the transfer of collections. This massive endeavor includes a wide range of projects that attend to preservation, such as preparatory actions, risk assessment management, remedial and preventive conservation actions, packing and finally the transfer and reorganization of the library collections to their new facilities.
Σαρρής, Ν., Σταυράτης, Γ., Τσαρουχά, Χ, Αποστολάκη, Μ., Λυγνού, Α. , Στο: Ένα βιβλίο έξι αιώνες ιστορίας: Εκδόσεις από την αυγή της τυπογραφίας στις βιβλιοθήκες της Αθήνας, Πρακτικά Ημερίδας Ιδρύματος Λασκαρίδη:13 Απριλίου 2019, Αθήνα, 2020
Historical Book Binding Techniques in Conservation, Conference Proceedings, 28 April- 1 May 2014, Bergen:,Austria, 2016
Comparative Oriental manuscript studies: An introduction, (ed) Bausi, A. et al, Hamburg, COMSt, 2015
Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript, edited by S. McKendrick, D. Parker, A. Myshrall, London: The British Library,, 2015
Η Επιστήμη της Προληπτικής Συντήρησης στα Έργα Τέχνης (επιμ. Καρύδης, Κουλουμπή, Σακελλαρίου), Αθήνα: Time Heritage, 2013
Sinaiticus Journal, London, 2010
Sinaiticus Journal, London, 2007
Care and conservation of manuscripts 13, Copenhagen, 2012
De Gruyter eBooks, Jul 23, 2023
The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early a... more The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early and undisturbed bookbindings from several different East Mediterranean bookbinding traditions, including Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Ethiopic and Slavonic. How have these books survived to date, what was their use and how does their use relate to the need for bookbinding renovations in the monastic environment? This paper examines the major bookbinding tendencies in the monastery and discusses the relationship between manuscript production, bookbinding and the renovation of manuscripts by binders at St Catherine's monastery throughout the centuries.
Conservation at the National Library of Greece: the transition's aftermath
Library Management
PurposeThe National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and since 1903 it had been housed... more PurposeThe National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and since 1903 it had been housed at the Vallianeio building, a landmark in the center of Athens. With a history of nearly two centuries and significant collections, the library moved its headquarters to its new building at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in 2018. This transfer marks its transition to a new era, a restart for the library and an opportunity for upgrades, improvements and expansion of its services, redefinition of its role and connection to society. In this context, the conservation department contributed greatly to this program, to the successful transfer of collections and paved the way for its upgraded role at its new facilities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reflects on the transition program and part of the projects executed, in terms of expectations and the new reality, under the scope of conservation of collections'. With a critical view, the authors present the Conservat...
The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establ... more The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establishment its collections were transferred and housed in various venues. In 1903, the Library moved to an imposing neoclassical marble building at the city center that stands out as one of Athens landmarks. In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that included the construction of new facilities for the National Library and the National Opera, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park. This significant project is now completed and the NLG, after more than a century, is ready to move once again. By fall 2017, all collections will be transferred to the new 22,000 m² facilities that provide suitable conditions and modern infrastructure for the preservation, digitization and use if its collections. Thus, in 2016, the pace of preparation for the transfer of collections has been intensified. This paper disc...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding, 2023
The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early a... more The monastic library of St Catherine's is known to hold one of the largest collections of early and undisturbed bookbindings from several different East Mediterranean bookbinding traditions, including Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Ethiopic and Slavonic. How have these books survived to date, what was their use and how does their use relate to the need for bookbinding renovations in the monastic environment? This paper examines the major bookbinding tendencies in the monastery and discusses the relationship between manuscript production, bookbinding and the renovation of manuscripts by binders at St Catherine's monastery throughout the centuries.
Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manus... more Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manuscript collection 1 Katarzyna Anna Kapıtan: Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks: A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts Jıří Vnouček: Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so Marıeka Kaye: Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts Chantal Kobel: The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337) Sarah Kılroy: The Birmingham Qurʾan manuscript: An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation Krıstıne Rose-Beers: Preparing to conserve an early Qurʾan manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty: Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book 107 v Nil Baydar: Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century: Kashf al-Bayān an Sifāt al-Hayawān Rebecca Honold: Same, same but different: The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel Julıa Poırıer: A short review of Samaritan binding practices: A closer look at wooden endband plate structure Georgıos Boudalıs: The codex and crafts in late antiquity Gıada Genua & Marco Dı Bella: Codex Ms02: Conservation of a restoration Gayane Elıazyan & al.: The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
Care and conservation of manuscripts, 2021
Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manus... more Preface xi Guđvarđur Már Gunnlaugsson: Maltreated Icelandic manuscripts in the Arnamagnaean manuscript collection 1 Katarzyna Anna Kapıtan: Dating paper manuscripts based on watermarks: A case study of selected nineteenth-century Icelandic manuscripts Jıří Vnouček: Not all that shines like vellum is necessarily so Marıeka Kaye: Housing and handling oversized papyrus manuscripts Chantal Kobel: The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: A preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337) Sarah Kılroy: The Birmingham Qurʾan manuscript: An introduction to the radiocarbon dating and conservation Krıstıne Rose-Beers: Preparing to conserve an early Qurʾan manuscript in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty: Exploring the materiality of the early Islamic book 107 v Nil Baydar: Codicological examination and conservation decisions for an encyclopaedic work consisting of 62 volumes from the fifteenth century: Kashf al-Bayān an Sifāt al-Hayawān Rebecca Honold: Same, same but different: The history and conservation of the seventeenth-century handwritten multi-volume catalogue of the Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel Julıa Poırıer: A short review of Samaritan binding practices: A closer look at wooden endband plate structure Georgıos Boudalıs: The codex and crafts in late antiquity Gıada Genua & Marco Dı Bella: Codex Ms02: Conservation of a restoration Gayane Elıazyan & al.: The conservation and restoration of the Tsughrut Gospel
The Aksumite Collection or Codex Σ (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā , MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio- SPaRe UM-039): Codicological and Palaeographical Observations. With a Note on Material Analysis of Inks
APPENDIX IV-Technical specificcations and the survey database 103 App.IV 1 Technical specificatio... more APPENDIX IV-Technical specificcations and the survey database 103 App.IV 1 Technical specifications and procedures for the scanning of rubbings 103 App.IV 3-Manuscript Forrn 106 App.IV 4-RUBBINGS FORM 114 App.IV 5-The process of superimposing rubbings 122
2nd IMCDEA Conference Proceedings, 2021
Recent History of the Area and the Centre Numérique des Manuscrits Orientaux (CNMO) in Erbil The ... more Recent History of the Area and the Centre Numérique des Manuscrits Orientaux (CNMO) in Erbil The CNMO was created in 1990 by Father Michael Najeeb, to house the continuous efforts to foster the collection and the recording of ancient manuscripts from the Dominican Order of Northern in Iraq but also of all Christian manuscripts of the area. The centre's task was to look for, to digitize, to catalogue and to promote the Christian manuscript culture of the North of Iraq in the areas of Christian tradition which runs back as early as the 4 th century in the Nineve Valley, with numerous monasteries and churches and references to them as testimony.
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17, 2021
The National Library of Greece holds one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts worldwid... more The National Library of Greece holds one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts worldwide, comprising of approximately 5,500 bound volumes and scrolls from as early as the 9th century AD. Housed since 1903 in an imposing historic building at the centre of Athens, the National Library of Greece is currently undergoing a challenging transition to a new era and a necessary move to a new home. Following a massive development project at the Athenian coastline funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, new facilities have been constructed for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that includes the National Library, the National Opera and the Stavros Niarchos Park. The library is fully engaged in a complex project to achieve this transition.
This paper discusses the challenges that were faced by the Conservation Department of the National Library of Greece towards moving one of the rarest Greek manuscript collections. It further describes the planning and actions that were followed by the Conservation Department to ensure the safe and successful transfer of the collection. This massive endeavor, included a wide range of activities that attend to preservation, such as preparatory actions, risk assessment management, remedial and preventive conservation actions, packing and finally the transfer and reorganization of the collection at the new facilities.
The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establ... more The National Library of Greece (NLG) was founded in 1832 and during the early years of its establishment its collections were transferred and housed in various venues. In 1903, the Library moved to an imposing neoclassical marble building at the city center that stands out as one of Athens landmarks. In 2006, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its plans to fund the development of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that included the construction of new facilities for the National Library and the National Opera, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park. This significant project is now completed and the NLG, after more than a century, is ready to move once again. By fall 2017, all collections will be transferred to the new 22,000 m² facilities that provide suitable conditions and modern infrastructure for the preservation, digitization and use if its collections. Thus, in 2016, the pace of preparation for the transfer of collections has been intensified. This paper discusses the preservation planning and actions regarding the transfer of collections. This massive endeavor includes a wide range of projects that attend to preservation, such as preparatory actions, risk assessment management, remedial and preventive conservation actions, packing and finally the transfer and reorganization of the library collections to their new facilities.
Σαρρής, Ν., Σταυράτης, Γ., Τσαρουχά, Χ, Αποστολάκη, Μ., Λυγνού, Α. , Στο: Ένα βιβλίο έξι αιώνες ιστορίας: Εκδόσεις από την αυγή της τυπογραφίας στις βιβλιοθήκες της Αθήνας, Πρακτικά Ημερίδας Ιδρύματος Λασκαρίδη:13 Απριλίου 2019, Αθήνα, 2020
Historical Book Binding Techniques in Conservation, Conference Proceedings, 28 April- 1 May 2014, Bergen:,Austria, 2016
Comparative Oriental manuscript studies: An introduction, (ed) Bausi, A. et al, Hamburg, COMSt, 2015
Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript, edited by S. McKendrick, D. Parker, A. Myshrall, London: The British Library,, 2015
Η Επιστήμη της Προληπτικής Συντήρησης στα Έργα Τέχνης (επιμ. Καρύδης, Κουλουμπή, Σακελλαρίου), Αθήνα: Time Heritage, 2013
Sinaiticus Journal, London, 2010
Sinaiticus Journal, London, 2007
Care and conservation of manuscripts 13, Copenhagen, 2012
The manuscript known as the Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-... more The manuscript known as the Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-SPaRe UM-039) is one of the most important—if not the most important—Gǝʿǝz manuscripts which have come to scholarly attention in the last twenty years. While its textual content—primarily the complex canonical-liturgical collection, closely depending on late antique models, which it attests—has already been the subject of several contributions, a description of its physical and material features has not yet been published. The present note takes advantage of the work and competence of scholars, conservators, and scientists, in order to fill this gap, offering a comprehensive material, codicological, and palaeographical description of the manuscript.