Preservation Week

Talk

"Technical examination and conservation treatment of an Ethiopic
    illuminated manuscript"
Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL)
Rockefeller Library
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
2:30 pm

Speaker: Elisabetta Polidori

In honor of Preservation Week, Elisabetta Polidori, the Samuel H.
Kress Fellow in Paper Conservation at the Northeast Document
Conservation Center (NEDCC), will give a talk about the technical
examination and conservation treatment of an Ethiopic illuminated
manuscript located at the Brown University Library, Ta'amra Maryam
(Miracles of Mary), one of the most popular of Ethiopian texts.  The
talk will take place Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 2:30 pm in the
Digital Scholarship Lab.  This event is free and open to the public.

Polidori received her M.A. in Conservation of Paper and Parchment
from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence in 2006, and in the
same year she obtained a B.A. in Art History from the University of
Florence.  She is currently the Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paper
Conservation at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.  The
NEDCC is the first independent conservation laboratory in the United
States to specialize exclusively in the conservation and
preservation of paper-based collections.  She is a member of the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
(AIC).

For more information, please see

    <URL:http://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/polidori/>

Rachel Lapkin
Library Materials Conservator
Brown University


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