Műtárgyvédelem, 2007 (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum)
Válogatás az utóbbi évek magyar papír- és könyvrestaurálási munkáiból - Összefoglalók
leaves with a broad soft brush and erasing. After solution tests, the water stains and the dissoluble acidic decomposition products were removed from the paper with watery treatment. Buffering with calcium-hydroxide closed the wet cleaning. The original structure appeared after the lifting and the separation, following soaking, of the multi-layered endpapers, which bore inscriptions. The missing parts of the paper were replaced with coloured paper pulp and mechanic moulding, then they were sized with the 1:4 mixture of loose wheat starch and methyl-cellulose. After drying, the edges of the leaves were cut to size, they were folded into booklets and the missing leaves were also replaced from the moulded paper. The inscribed endpapers recovered from the board were completed into separate sheets, and new endpapers were prepared respecting the order observed at dismantling and the places of the fragments. Following the original technique and the pinholes, the sheets were sewn with flax thread onto two double ribs made of hemp cords. The parchments and the bases of the endbands were glued to the spine with animal glue. The endbands were embroidered after analogous items. As the adhesive had aged, the binding leather could easily be removed from the boards in a dry condition. The pollutions settled on surface of the leather and in the depressions of the goffering were removed with fat liquor. The boards of the small book were too damaged to be completed. To preserve the information on the original technology, they were not cleaned but put into a protective case and added to the conserved book together with the codex fragments used for the mounting of the spine. A new board was made from beech, which was attached to the body of the book with the cords of the rib fixed with carved pegs. As the original binding leather was very fragmentary, a new leather binding was prepared from goatskin of vegetal tanning, on which the fragments of the original binding were replaced. Wheat starch was used as adhesive. The clasps were prepared from a yellow copper sheet following analogues, and they were fixed to the book. Finally, a protective case was prepared for the book. The object was conserved within the frames of object conservator training conducted in the co-operation of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Museum in the academic year of 2000/2001. Tamás Peiler was the supervisor of the diploma work. Conservation of a liturgic book from 1537 Anita Meggyes The 16th century book, which contains prayers, hymns and religious songs, belongs to the library of the Szent István Király Museum of Székesfehérvár. The book was prepared in 1537 and was a novelty in Southern Slavic printing from the respect of printing technology since this was the first time that Latin letters were used beside Cyrillic alphanumeric characters, and the booklets were marked not only on the first and the last leaves but also on the second, third and fourth leaves. The characteristic elements of Byzantine binding can be found on the book: the edges of the wooden boards are channelled, the endbands are raised over the body of the book and they extend on the edges of the boards, a wide leather cap covers them, the cast clasps are stirrup-shaped and the straps of the clasps are made with flat braiding. 260
