St. Catherine's Monastery Library Project Symposium

Submitted by Ewelina Warner on

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.