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The historic repair and reuse of Byzantine wooden bookboards in the manuscript collection of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai
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This paper discusses the historic repair and reuse of wooden bookboards on Byzantine Greek-style bookbindings in the library of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai. It is based on a detailed condition survey of the monastery’s manuscripts that also provided a comprehensive description of the materials and structures of these manuscripts. A total of 124 wooden boards with repairs to major splits was found on 101 manuscripts. These repaired boards have been categorised by damage to the boards,...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Archetype Publications Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 68-77
- Host title:
- Holding it all together: ancient and modern approaches to joining, repair and consolidation
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9781904982470
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- English
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- ora:3065
- Deposit date:
- 2009-11-25
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- 2009
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- Citation: Honey, A. & Velios, A. (2009). The historic repair and reuse of Byzantine wooden bookboards in the manuscript collection of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai. In: Ambers, J. et al.(eds.), Holding it all together: ancient and modern approaches to joining, repair and consolidation. London: Archetype Publications in association with The British Museum, pp. 68-77.
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