Learning from the past: using original techniques to conserve a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript and its sixteenth-century Greek-style binding at the Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai
This paper describes the conservation treatment at the Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai of an illuminated manuscript preserved in an important but severely damaged sixteenth-century Greek-style Sinai binding. The conservation treatment aimed to restore functionality to this binding with minimum inte...
Main Authors: | Honey, A, Pickwoad, N |
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Other Authors: | Rozeik, C |
Format: | Book section |
Language: | English |
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International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
2010
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