Csapodi, Csaba: Conservation of the Manuscript and Old Book Collections at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Methods and Results. 1949–1964 (A MTAK kiadványai 44. Budapest, 1965)

1 — 2. Sections of the storage rooms containing the manuscript and old book collections 3. Fire-proof strong room 4. Storage of manuscripts on iron shelves 5 — 8. Badly demaged incunabula 9. Holes made on the bindings by anobia 10. Destructive work of anobia 11. Parasites can invisibly damage the cover 12. Extent of damage becomes obvious only after removing the endpapers 13. Vacuum cabinet (Gy. Baky — KUTESZ, 1963) 14. Reinforcement with transparent paper (Sasvári, 1958) 15. Spots on the surface of the paper indicate the initial presence of fungi. 16. Penetration of the fibres by fungi and humidity completely demage paper 17. Fragment of print found in the cover of a book 18. The same fragment after cleaning (Sasvári, 1964) 19. Incunabulum before conservation 20. The same after conservation (Sasvári, 1960) 21. The deteriorating pages of an incunabulum 22. A laminated page of the same book (Conservation Workshop at the National Archive 1964) 23. Parchment codex ruined by humidity 24. The same codex after conservation (Sasvári, 1963) 25. Incunabulum before conservation 26. The same after conservation (Fabro, 1956) 27. Preservation of fragments of the original binding (Fabro, 1956) 28. Impression of the essential lines marking the original pattern (Vörös, 1964) 29. Various fragments soaked from a book binding 30. A single-page calendar discovered in a binding and dated to 1483 (Unieum) 31. Rebound incunabulum (Sasvári, 1957). 32. Rebound incunabulum (Németh 1958) 33. Rebound incunabulum (Fabro, 1955) 34. Rebound incunabulum (Magyari, 1965.) 35. Rebound old Hungarian book (Németh J., 1956) 36. Rebound incunabula (Németh 1956) 37. Rebound 16th century book with gilding (Monostori, 1956) 38. A rebound 16th century book (Vörös Gy., 1963) 39 — 43. Rebound books from the 16th—17th century (Vörös 1962—1963) 44. Storage box for printed matter of a few pages (Csapodi —Erdődy) 45. Binding of letters 45

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