This is the "DIZIONARIUM Ecclesiasticum" printed by Felix Moscow to Naples in 1723. It 's a hardcover book with capitals in the head and foot, sewing on two nerves in each string (alternate technique) and covered in parchment semifloscia contemporary original. It has some typographical woodcut initials and well made, but the real peculiarity is the number of notes held by present and the actions that the previous owners have made about the book: through the outer door had originally held a note at the top of page and a note in pen at the bottom: the first was covered by a patch of paper it is written on a further note of possession, the second, unfortunately, was cut off with scissors and hole "filled" (does not seem correct to say "integrated with a patch ...") attached to the paper.
The condition is, overall, quite good: all the cards are affected by moisture very extensive gore, but do not show significant gaps with a few papers concerned by a walkway insect. the seam is weak and not well anchored in several places, the deck is very dirty parchment, deformed, with tears and holes along the edges.
were already performed on the volume filing, collating, disassembly, cleaning, dry cleaning and ricollatura deacidification of papers and cartons. as well as the cleaning of parchment covered with artificial saliva with first pass and second pass (immediately) with water and alcohol. The most interesting challenge consisted in the separation, sull'antiporta, sovrammessa between the patch and the possession of the original note. the adhesive, which at first seemed the type of animal glue that swell easily in water, which was found, however, practically insoluble in water, and there were significant results with any other method of posting "traditional" (localized humidification , wraps Tylose etc..) only with a pack of Laponite (left to act for more than an hour) it was possible to soften the glue without excessive damage and separate the two layers of paper. At the end of the restoration will publish the technical report in detail to illustrate the phases of this delicate work. I enclose some pictures of the first volume of the restoration.
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