Studi di archivistica, bibliografia, paleografia

Series | Studi di archivistica, bibliografia, paleografia
Review | Dalla tutela al restauro del patrimonio librario e archivistico
Chapter | Il Salterio di San Romualdo (secolo IX), primi interventi di restauro e indagini conoscitive

Il Salterio di San Romualdo (secolo IX), primi interventi di restauro e indagini conoscitive

Abstract

The San Romualdo Psalter is a manuscript dating back to the 9th century, which for a long time has been thought to have been written by the saint himself. Its rubrication turned white making it completely unreadable, the previous repairs led to distortions of the parchment. The codex was dismantled and reproduced using UV fluorescence, with a remarkable improvement in the text’s readability. Previous repairs have been removed using rigid aqueous gels; distortions have been treated with humidification and tensioning with neodymium magnets. The manuscript has been resewn using a Japanese paper concertina and double thread technique, and bound on beech boards and full alum tawed goatskin.


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Submitted: Jan. 30, 2018 | Published March 27, 2018 | Language: it

Keywords Imaging • Manuscript conservation • Spectroscopic techniques • Parchment conservation • Carolingian bookbinding

Copyright © 2018 Alessandro Sidoti. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-215-4/017


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