Suave Mechanicals
Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781940965161
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Author: Julia Miller (Conservator)
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781940965161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abigail Bainbridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-27
Total Pages: 893
ISBN-13: 1000839311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConservation 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:
Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9780979797453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julia Miller
Publisher:
Published: 2017-11
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ISBN-13: 9781940965062
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Verhoogt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0472123165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3111292061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: 3110616270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 030021541X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.