Suave Mechanicals
Author : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781940965161
Author : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781940965161
Author : Abigail Bainbridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000839311
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 : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : 9780979797453
Author : Julia Miller
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2017-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781940965062
Author : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Verhoogt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0472123165
The first-ever history of Michigan’s celebrated collection of papyri offers nonspecialists an inviting encounter with the ancient world
Author : Alessandro Bausi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111292061
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
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110616270
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 : Brent Nongbri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 030021541X
In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within the earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of the most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows that the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.