This volume collects 21 papers from the 11th international seminar on the care and conservation of manuscripts, held at the U. of Copenhagen, Denmark, in April of 2008. Papers on conservation
techniques and related matters are of course included, but presentations are also included for curatorial, codicological, philological, book historical, and even digitization subjects. Among
the specific topics addressed are: the use of Boracol in the conservation of wax seals, 10th century Georgian book-bindings in the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, the conservation of the
First Minute Book of the Commission of Sewers in Surrey and Kent, the construction of a database of early hand-made Finnish paper, and the history of repairs and rebinding of 15th century block
books in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
