Description: This volume of Care and Conservation of Manuscripts offers: discussions of the history of collection care at the National Library of Iceland * the preservation of medieval parchments at the National Archives of Sweden * the creation of a database for the administration of the manuscript library in the Prague Castle archives * and an optimized work-flow system for a large-scale condition survey of the books in the Library of the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt.
Brief description:
Matthew James Driscoll is professor emeritus of Old Norse philology in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen and former head of the Arnamagnæan Institute.