Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises
Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises
Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises Extended Abstracts presented at the ICOM-CC Graphic Document Working Group Interim Meeting Vienna, Austrian National Library 17-19 April 2013 Edited by Lieve Watteeuw and Christa Hofmann © International Council of Museums (ICOM) Vienna, Austrian National Library, 17-19 April 2013 Organization: ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group and the Austrian National Library; In collaboration with the Albertina, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and KU Leuven Conference website: www.onb.ac.at/ev/about/ifr/icom_cc.htm Vienna, Austrian National Library, www.onb.ac.at ICOM-CC, www.icom-cc.org/28/working-groups/graphic-documents Organising team Vienna: Christa Hofmann | Wolfgang Kreuzer | Hannah Singer | Christa Schuster | Birgit Speta | Elisabeth Thobois | Julia Wikarski with the support of all members of the conservation department of the Austrian National Library. An international peer review committee was evaluating the extended abstracts. Editorial team: Sigrid Eyb-Green | Paul Garside | Ute Henniges | Christa Hofmann | Uta Landwehr | Dianne van der Reyden | Marie Vest | Lieve Watteeuw Cover: Kromarchivpaper by Ilse Mühlbacher Graphik-Design: Sibylle Gieselmann www.null7.at
Content Lieve Watteeuw Introduction 7 Dianne Lee van der Reyden New Trends in Preservation in the Digital Age: New Roles for Conservators 8 Uta Landwehr | Junko Sonderegger The Albums of Duke Charles de Croÿ: Consolidation and Modified Re-housing of Double-sided Miniatures on Parchment in Bound Volumes 14 Doris St-Jacques | Maria Bedynski | Lynn Curry | Season Tse A 1763 Illuminated Haggadah Manuscript: How Ineffective Past Treatments Resulted in an Antioxidant Research Project, Impacting Current Treatment Decisions 17 Birgit Speta The Conservation of the Hussite Codex: Considerations on Minimal Intervention 21 Lieve Watteeuw Books in Exhibitions: History and Adventures in Display 24 Robert Fuchs Risk and Safety of Illuminated Manuscripts with Brittle Paint Layers: Can the Digital Scan Substitute Old Manuscripts? Are Old Choices of Conservation Reversible? 28 Lynn B. Brostoff | Sylvia Albro | John Bertonaschi Integrating Analytical Tools in Treatment Decision-making for a 1513 Hand-colored Ptolemy Geographia Atlas 29 Christa Hofmann | Andreas hartl | Kyujin Ahn | Laura Völkel | Ina Faerber | Antje Potthast Verdigris I: Compromises in conservation 34 Kyujin Ahn | Andreas hartl | Christa Hofmann | Ute Hennings | Antje Potthast Verdigris 2: Wet Chemical Treatments which are not Easy to Decide and Apply 36 Matija Strlic | Catherine Dillon | Nancy Bell | Peter Brimblecombe | Kalliopi Fouseki | Jinghao Xue | William Lindsay | Eva Menart | Carlota Grossi | Kostas Ntanos | Gerrit De Bruin | David Thickett | Fenella France Integrated Modelling: The Demography of Collections 38 Jana Kolar | Dusan Kolesa | Gerrit de Bruin Characterisation of Historical Paper - Possibilities and Limitations 42 Véronique Rouchon | Eleonora Pellizzi | Maroussia Duranton Study of Phytate Chelating Treatments Used on Iron Gall Ink Damaged Manuscripts 46 pnina shor | lena libman | tanya bitler | tanya treiger Practice and Progress in the Conservation, Preservation and Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 3
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Content<br />
Lieve Watteeuw<br />
Introduction 7<br />
Dianne Lee van der Reyden<br />
New Trends in Preservation in the Digital Age: New Roles for Conservators 8<br />
Uta Landwehr | Junko Sonderegger<br />
The Albums of Duke Charles de Croÿ: Consolidation and Modified Re-housing of<br />
Double-sided Miniatures on Parchment in Bound Volumes 14<br />
Doris St-Jacques | Maria Bedynski | Lynn Curry | Season Tse<br />
A 1763 Illuminated Haggadah Manuscript: How Ineffective Past Treatments Resulted in<br />
an Antioxidant Research Project, Impacting Current Treatment <strong>Decisions</strong> 17<br />
Birgit Speta<br />
The <strong>Conservation</strong> of the Hussite Codex: Considerations on Minimal Intervention 21<br />
Lieve Watteeuw<br />
Books in Exhibitions: History and Adventures in Display 24<br />
Robert Fuchs<br />
Risk and Safety of Illuminated Manuscripts with Brittle Paint Layers:<br />
Can the Digital Scan Substitute Old Manuscripts? Are Old Choices of <strong>Conservation</strong> Reversible? 28<br />
Lynn B. Brostoff | Sylvia Albro | John Bertonaschi<br />
Integrating Analytical Tools in Treatment Decision-making for a 1513 Hand-colored<br />
Ptolemy Geographia Atlas 29<br />
Christa Hofmann | Andreas hartl | Kyujin Ahn | Laura Völkel | Ina Faerber | Antje Potthast<br />
Verdigris I: <strong>Compromises</strong> in conservation 34<br />
Kyujin Ahn | Andreas hartl | Christa Hofmann | Ute Hennings | Antje Potthast<br />
Verdigris 2: Wet Chemical Treatments which are not Easy to Decide and Apply 36<br />
Matija Strlic | Catherine Dillon | Nancy Bell | Peter Brimblecombe | Kalliopi Fouseki |<br />
Jinghao Xue | William Lindsay | Eva Menart | Carlota Grossi | Kostas Ntanos |<br />
Gerrit De Bruin | David Thickett | Fenella France<br />
Integrated Modelling: The Demography of Collections 38<br />
Jana Kolar | Dusan Kolesa | Gerrit de Bruin<br />
Characterisation of Historical <strong>Paper</strong> - Possibilities and Limitations 42<br />
Véronique Rouchon | Eleonora Pellizzi | Maroussia Duranton<br />
Study of Phytate Chelating Treatments Used on Iron Gall Ink Damaged Manuscripts 46<br />
pnina shor | lena libman | tanya bitler | tanya treiger<br />
Practice and Progress in the <strong>Conservation</strong>, Preservation and Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50<br />
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