St. Catherine's Monastery Library Project Symposium

Submitted by Ewelina Warner on Tue, 01/16/2007 - 12:26

The symposium will take place in the Lecture Hall
at Camberwell College of Art, Peckham Road, on Wednesday, the 17th January 2007, from 2-5pm.

Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad will give a short introduction followed by a talk on: "All change at Saint Catherine's: renovating the library and creating the new digitising and conservation studios."

Andrew Honey will talk about "John Climacus in Los Angeles: Conservation of MS. Greek 418 for the 'Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai' exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum."

Nicole Gilroy will give a talk on "The preparation of the manuscript for display in the Sackler Gallery in Washington DC in October 2006."

After a short break (from 3:45 to 4:00) Dr Athanasios Velios will talk on "Conservation hierarchies: a new way of thinking about documentation."

The last talk: "Seeing through the cover: classification of finishing tools from the manuscript decorated bindings of the Saint Catherine's library." will be given by Nikolas Sarris.