Iron gall ink corrosion can cause serious damage to historic documents. We have Pliny the Elder to thank for the ink recipe that originated in Greece. Iron gall ink was commonly created by adding iron ore and oak galls…
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964830519310649?fbclid=IwAR3MZXzXamLu2gz1oMHMRmT-i5myFp28aU3J40Of0dB7H5Iau-vpAtNNKDE An interesting article on the removal of fungal staining complexes from paper using rigid hydrogels and adjusting pH.…
Clients often come to me with historic newspapers that are in need of repair. These documents are frequently oversize and extremely fragile due to the nature of newspaper manufacture. Newspapers were intended to be ephemeral in nature, so in…
http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/killer-rabbits-in-medieval-manuscripts-why-so-many-drawings-in-the-margins-depict-bunnies-going-bad.html?fbclid=IwAR2T88su60aAIappvAsNRmFSJkdng56gcLZP3wJT5gPoA49c1-dwD3uIVJU…
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/book-of-kells?utm_campaign=trinity_college_dublin_book_of_kells_october_2018&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin…
https://www.libfocus.com/2018/07/conservation-of-gaelic-manuscript-at.html…
The smudges, splotches, and stains of medieval manuscripts…
The following is another interesting video created by the conservation staff at the Library of Virginia. A collection of Thomas Jefferson’s executive papers had been laminated. Many of the documents contained wax seals, which required special care. The video…
Does your collection include papyrus artifacts? Until recently, the inks used to write on ancient papyrus were assumed to be carbon-based. Researchers have discovered that the inks in this papyrus manuscript actually contain copper, which will affect the methods…
The following is a video created by my colleagues Leslie Courtois and Audrey Johnson at the Library of Virginia. In it, Leslie and Audrey detail and illustrate the treatment concerns related to Civil War era newspapers. They address the…