Verjura y Corondel S.L.

26/02/2024

Discover the oldest complete collection of Psalms dating back to the 5th century, meticulously restored and showcased at the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Explore the cultural and historical significance of this ancient manuscript.

10/11/2023

FIG Bilbao organiza una completa agenda de actividades culturales, que ayudan a posicionar a la capital vizcaína como ciudad tractora de la cultura. Los encuentros FIG Bilbao son una clara apuesta por el diálogo y por la investigación dentro del arte sobre papel. El 2023 supone un cambio en los f...

22/10/2023

Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop (Liechtenstein). Herbals were highly illustrated, critical texts to doctors and lay healthcare providers that included both the folkloric and medicinal uses of plants.

28/08/2023

Estudios sobre las primeras formas de encuadernación.

The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually compos...

11/07/2023

This peer-reviewed conference volume examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The collection is designed around three thematic strands, based on the lifecycle of handwritten documents and manuscripts and printed books: first, production of paper, second product...

10/07/2023

La "Biblia" de la conservación de libros.

Conservation of Books is the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation, offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject. The volume takes an international approach to its subject. Written by over 70 specialists in conservation and conservati...

09/07/2023

El ‘Anverso y reverso’ está en el Museo Casa Botines. Se trata de una exposición sobre patrimonio documental que pretende acercar al público la riqueza de la escritura, los facsímiles, los originales, sellos... Comisariada por Natividad Pan aporta una presentación novedosa que contacta dire...

08/07/2023

Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books. A new open-access book by Professor Kathryn M. Rudy. In her latest work, p…

08/07/2023

Juntan cada pieza del manuscrito con la delicadeza y meticulosidad de quien conoce la importancia de lo que hace. Como si fueran cirujanas, utilizan herramientas parecidas a bisturís con los que cos

01/07/2023

Encuadernaciones holandesas del s.xvii

This signed Still life with books and a globe of 1628 dates from the Leiden period of Jan Davidsz de Heem, generally regarded as one of the most important and multifaceted still-life painters of the Golden Age. The panel is an early work in the artist’s oeuvre, where dated pictures begin to appear...