From the physical world of Book Conservation to the magic of Digital Humanities Alberto Campagnolo PhD Candidate Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London [email protected]@ACampagnolo UCLDH Seminar, 20 th November 2014 Scalpels & magic wands
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From the physical world of Book Conservation
to the magic of Digital Humanities
Alberto Campagnolo PhD Candidate
Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts, London
Jan Just Witkam, Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the University of Leiden and other collections in the Netherlands, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983, pp. 13-14.
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Douglas Cockerell, Bookbinding, and the Care of Books, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902, p. 104, fig. 29
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(Pomian 1990)
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Museum items
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Library items
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Library items
Living tools kept to be used as carriers of useful information
(Adams and Barker 1993)
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Library items
Living tools kept to be used as carriers of useful information
Not susceptible to archaeological treatment
(Adams and Barker 1993)
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Library items
Living tools kept to be used as carriers of useful information
Not susceptible to archaeological treatment
Need for an interdisciplinary research approach
(Adams and Barker 1993)
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Model for the history of the book
Communication circuit – Darnton 1983
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Model for the history of the book
Useful tool for social historians
Limiting for the study of the book as a physical object
Communication circuit – Darnton 1983
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Model for the history of the book (material book)
Transmission cycle – Adams and Barker 1993
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Model for the history of the book
Primacy of text
Brings together different disciplines
Common ground for an integrated history of the book
Transmission cycle – Adams and Barker 1993
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Model for the history of the artefact book
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Model for the history of the artefact book
Primacy of the artefact
Bring together different disciplines
Common ground for an integrated history of the book
Artefact examination – Elliot et al. 1982; Pearce 1986
Archaeological and codicological approach
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Model for the history of the artefact book
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Model for the history of the artefact book
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Model for the history of the artefact book
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"Binding for a Qur'an [Iran]" (56.222) – late 16th cent. In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/56.222. (April 2014)
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Conservation
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CONTENTS
i. fire.
ii. water.
iii. gas and heat.
iv. dust and neglect.
v. ignorance and bigotry.
vi. the bookworm.
vii. other vermin.
viii. bookbinders.
ix. collectors.
x. servants and children.
postscriptum.
conclusion.
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viii. bookbinders (or book conservators).
A good binding gives pleasure. — Deadly effects of the “plough” as used by binders. — Not confined to bye-gone times. — Instances of injury. — De Rome, a good binder but a great cropper. — Books “hacked.” — Bad lettering. — Treasures in book-covers. — Books washed, sized, and mended. — “Cases” often preferable to re-binding. ix. collectors.
Bagford the biblioclast. — Illustrations torn from MSS. — Title-pages torn from books. — Rubens, his engraved titles. — Colophons torn out of books. — Lincoln Cathedral. — Dr. Dibdin’s Nosegay. — Theurdanck. — Fragments of MSS. — Some libraries almost useless. — Pepysian. — Teylerian. — Sir Thomas Phillipps. x. servants and children.
Library invaded for the purpose of dusting. — Spring clean. — Dust to be got rid of. — Ways of doing so. — Carefulness praised. — Bad nature of certain books — Metal clasps and rivets. — How to dust. — Children often injure books. — Examples. — Story of boys in a country library.
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The Nag Hammadi Codices.
13 leather-bound single-quire papyrus volumes discovered by Egyptian farmers in 1945.