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New clamshell box for Mich. Ms. 130
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  • Kyle Clark
The Preservation of Structural & Historic Integrity: Rehousing the Michigan Manuscripts
The Renaissance and Medieval Manuscript Collection belonging to the University of Michigan Library consists of an impressive array of medieval and early modern manuscripts from multiple cultures and languages, including Greek, Latin, Armenian, and Ethiopian. Fortunately, many of the manuscripts within this collection have largely been left in their original bindings and most damages have gone untreated.
X-ray image showing a section of the lower board and spine of Mich. Ms. 79. Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts Preservation Department.
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  • Kyle Clark
Unveiling the Mystery inside a Greek Manuscript Binding
The University of Michigan Library and the Detroit Institute of Arts have recently collaborated in a project to produce x-ray images of the hidden structure inside a fourteenth-century Greek manuscript binding.
Paper with strokes of brightly colored pigments, dishes with paints and brushes, arranged on a table
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  • Marieka Kaye
Re-Creating the Medieval Palette : A workshop with Cheryl Porter
In early April, we welcomed conservator and researcher Cheryl Porter to campus for a lecture and 3-day workshop. In this post, Marieka Kaye (U-M Library Head of Conservation & Book Repair) offers us an overview of the workshop which explored the colors used by artists working in the Islamic and European traditions of the medieval era.
Paint samples held up next two the yellow-brown spine leather, in order to match.
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  • Juli McLoone
Spotlight on Conservation: The Novels of Jane Austen
As Juli McLoone and Sigrid Cordell prepared for The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet (Nov. 20, 2017-March 30, 2018), a number of Jane Austen's novels were identified as being in need of conservation treatment. These included a two-volume, 1838 edition of The Novels of Jane Austen. These two volumes presented some condition concerns which Cathleen A. Baker Fellow Clara Huisman treated under the supervision of Conservation Librarian/Conservator Marieka Kaye.
After the flood waters receded in the Biblioteca Nazional Centrale (National Library) in Florence.
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  • Cathleen Ann Baker
The Florence Flood, 1966: What We Learned
A curator's overview of the exhibit “The Florence Flood, November 1966: The Conservation of Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and Beyond.”
View of upper leather cover of book under discussion with ruler
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  • Shannon Zachary
Conservation of a Seventeenth-century Latin Phrasebook
Guest post from Allison Donnelly, a 2016 U-M graduate and student intern at the library's conservation lab, describing her work on a recently acquired seventeenth-century Latin phrasebook!
Clamshell box storing a Culpeper-Style English Microscope (ca. 1760)
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  • Pablo Alvarez
A New Home for a Historical Microscope
In 2013, an extraordinary collection on the history of medicine was transferred from the Taubman Library to the Special Collections Library, University of Michigan Library. Among the books, we came across three eighteenth-century microscopes stored in plain boxes and in need of conservation treatment. They have now been repaired and are in new homes. Here is a video explaining in detail the conservation work performed in one of these wonderful microscopes.