For the discussion of the thesis of the level I was involved in the restoration of a Officio of the Blessed Virgin Mary (a collection of daily prayers to Madfonna widely used by the Brotherhoods of the airlines and the Disciplined) printed at Turin in 1750 by Gerardo Giuliano.
I state at once that the bibliographic information about the printer and print a year since I have not obtained same volume (as the title page missing), but I discovered them after I-huge-work of painstaking research (to be true ... Bibliofilo) started with the analysis of the woodcuts in the volume and assumptions about the possible release of AREA the text (I was not even sure fossestato printed in Piedmont!). Fortunately, this challenging work, carried out in parallel with the restoration has led to an astonishing result: since they have no information on the title, printer, place and year of printing of the book are able to trace all this information, finding an exact copy, complete the book I was restoring.
Apart from the problem of the of the title, this book offered already, in itself, the opportunity to perform a full restoration and challenging, perfect for a thesis.
This is a hardcover book with blanket semifloscia (dials in cardboard form) in leather embossed (probably gold) on the back. as already mentioned was missing several cards, and those present were in poor condition: creases, rips, holes, animal wastes, stains of any kind, walkways insect attacks, biological, moisture stains were found on quasin all the cards. The back was deformed and the nerves folded on themselves, the blanket was separated from the body of the book, ill case packers, the leather was shrunken and brittle, with gaps, scratches and deposits of various kinds. the anterior quadrant was in fairly good condition with two notes of ownership: a gate and incomprehensible, the other bearing the inscription "Carolus Cottalorda Nicolas", the rear quadrant was largely incomplete.
describe here briefly some phases of the restoration of this volume: I prefer not to publish the report of restoration as part of the Thesis.
were performed: the filing, collating, dusting, disassembly, cleaning, dry volume, washing, deacidification and ricollatura cards, paper restoration (done manually on each of the 420 cards left) it final pressing of the files, cleaning, protective wax treatment and integration of the shortcomings of the deck (with a tanned leather for restoration work and hand) . With the discovery of an identical copy of the book, it was possible to determine exactly how many cards and especially those files were missing, rebuild them with facsimiles of Japanese paper, form the card guard card Ingres and sew it all together with the restored files technique continues to 5 individual nerves in string. They subsequently made the restoration of the quadrants (with a specially designed carton to form the basis from paper pulp by imitating the ancient techniques of production), assembly of the deck on the original dial and original creation (for the body of the book) of a new pool in imitation of the original box with dials in the same kind of conservative and leather used to supplement the original pool. The book restored the original cover and a booklet containing photos of missing pages from the book were placed in a cardboard box kept in conservative cloth bookbinding tailored from the original form created specifically for the occasion. attaching photos of the book and before restoration of certain phases of the operation.
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