The project has been awarded a major AHRC grant in excess of £200,000 for work on the material generated by the conservation survey.
The grant has allowed us to employ Dr George Boudalis, a long term member of the project team, as a Research Assistant and to fund Nikolas Sarris, a frequent survey team member, as a PhD student. They both started work on 25 October and will be with us for three years. George Boudalis will work with Prof Nicholas Pickwoad and Dr Thanasis Velios on preparing the survey data for the database at the end of which process we plan to publish a comprehensive illustrated Anglo-Greek terminology of bookbinding terms relating to the monastery library collection. Nikolas Sarris will work on the collection of hundreds of rubbings of the finishing tools used on the bindings accumulated during the survey, with the aim of identifying as many as possible with examples already published, and researching those which have not yet been recorded elsewhere.
We are very grateful to the AHRC for their support for this work which will be our first opportunity to make use of the results of the survey and publish them for others to have access to.