Endband On The Run
A blog about endbands, their function, and how French MS 62 managed to almost lose them twice by our Senior Conservator Mark Furness.
A blog about endbands, their function, and how French MS 62 managed to almost lose them twice by our Senior Conservator Mark Furness.
The Carcanet archives are living and growing constantly: this brings exciting research and outreach opportunities, an example being the exhibitionContinue Reading
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
Paper has had many uses… crucially it is the perfect material for writing, printing and making books
The famous writing material of Ancient Egypt, enduring and iconic
Wood is strong and easily shaped, allowing for the creation of practical and beautiful things, for books it creates the quintissential hardback
Leather is durable strong and flexible, also luxurious, tactile to hold
Favoured for its durability and soft, subtle tones, it is in manuscript culture that the use of parchment and vellum endures most significantly
A multispectral imaging study has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments previously thought to be blank,
contain text.
I work as a Collections assistant at the University of Manchester Library Special Collections, focusing mainly on the Library’s mapContinue Reading