Journal of the Institute of Conservation

Journal of the Institute of Conservation
Parchment and Vellum Special Issue

The latest issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation
(Vol. 35, no. 2) is now available in print. The issue is a special
edition focussing on the conservation of parchment and vellum.
Articles include:

    The conservation of botanical illustrations on vellum: past,
    present and future
    by Catherine Rickman, Kate Edmondson and Emma Le Cornu

    The methodology used for dewatering the vellum from the Faddan
    More Psalter
    by John Gillis

    Conservation treatment and stabilization of the ninth-century
    Stuttgart Psalter
    by Andrea Pataki-Hundt

    Parchment making in eighteenth-century France: historical
    practices and the written record
    by Alexis Hagadorn

    Conservation of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chancery
    pleadings at the National Archives of Ireland
    by Zoe Reid and Benjamin van de Wetering

    Approaches to the conservation of patriarchal sigillia on
    parchment from the General State Archives of Greece
    by Penelope Banou and Angeliki Stassinou

Shorter notice:

    Parchment leafcasting revisited by Kerstin Forstmeyer

Book review:

   Cantate Domino: Early Choir Books for the Knights in Malta
   reviewed by Anna Johnson

The Journal is available in print to all members of Icon

    <URL:http://icon.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=961&Itemid=114>

It is also available online at

    <URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcon20/current>

Janet Berry MPhil, FHEA
Editor, Journal of the Institute of Conservation


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