Conservation of reused bindings (part two)
Channel: Rita Udina · Paper & Book Conservation
Date: 2021-06-12

Lecture held within the conference "Meetings of Conservators and Restorers of Archival and libraries Materials and Art on Paper", organized by: Research Library of Dubrovnik (Dubrovačke knjižnice), in Croatia. Second part of two lectures, both with same theoretical background, but diverse conservation examples. 

💬 [Subtitles in ENGLISH, SPANISH & CATALAN]

👉 More information: https://ritaudina.com/en/portfolio/conservation-of-recycled-bindings-disjecta-membra/
👉 First part here (in English): https://youtu.be/a0PLLXzwAPI
👉 First and second, gathered (in Spanish): https://youtu.be/sYzKsqAVG50

🔸  More about example 2️⃣: https://ritaudina.com/en/portfolio/conservation-of-a-membra-disjecta-manuscript-used-as-limp-vellum-binding-covers/
      (manuscript with rolled sewing on parchment)
🔸  More about example 3️⃣: https://ritaudina.com/en/portfolio/conservation-of-book-with-recycled-binding/
      (manuscript with recycled envelope binding, or wallet binding)


⌛ Chapters:

00:00 - Conductor introduces the speaker
00:42 - Introduction
              01:06 - A) What is re-use with diverse purpose (disjecta membra)
              01:55 - B) What is reuse with diverse purpose
02:12 - A) Recycling with diverse purpose (disjecta membra)
              02:28 - a1) 1️⃣ Parchment manuscript used as a binding (Incunabula from Girona).
              04:53 - a2) 2️⃣ Parchment manuscript used as a binding (manuscript from Lleida).
              07:41 - 1 vs 2. Are old repairs and re-used materials compatible with conservation requirements and to what extent their removal involves loss of readability?
              08:40 Decision making for disjecta membra materials (A).
09:17 - B) Reuse with same puprpose (binding)
              09:35 - b1) 3️⃣ Manuscript from Tàrrega with wallet binding.
              20:14 - Decision making for recycled bindings (B).
21:29 - Conclusion
23:41 - Acknowledgement
24:06 - Questions

👉 Abstract:
Book #conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term #preservation. We must not forget that a book is meant to be handled in order to read it.
These ethical considerations become even more complex when re-used materials are part of the #binding, either because the covers are a document theirselves (for instance, a #manuscript, common case of "disjecta membra" or #fragmentology) or also when the binding is a recycled one, a re-used binding. The adjustments made by the craftsmen in the rebinding process should be kept as an evidence of this historical fact, and yet we might be interested in keeping other data from the firstly used materials. At the same time, preservation commands to take decisions in order to stabilize the object.
The lecture focuses on several case studies (#incunabula and manuscripts with #LimpVellum bindings and lace-cased vellum bindings) showing that decision making can only be a custom-made for each particular #book.
#DisjectaMembra #BookBinding

🙏 Acknowledgement:
For their permission to share the images of their books to the Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola, Regional Archive of Urgell (Tàrrega), Historical Archive of Lleida, National Archive of Catalonia (Government of Catalonia).

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