Parchment Making across a Millennium: Changes in Production Techniques as Clues to Date and Provenance Manuscripts
GETTY CENTER
Museum Lecture Hall
Jiri Vnoucek, conservator of manuscripts at the Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen, discusses how systematic research based on the visual study of existing manuscripts and practical experiments with historical methods of parchment production can support efforts to date and provenance manuscripts. This talk will include an examination of selected manuscripts from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
