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PORTRAIT GRAFFITI IN MARGINS OF ANTIQUE LITHUANIAN BOOKS [PDF]
Knygotyra, 2006 This article presents and discusses fourteen drawings that portray a human and were found in manuscripts and printed books (documents) that were actively used in Lithuania from 17th to 19th centuries.
Burba, Domininkas, Pacevicius, Arvydas
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E-Preservation of Old and Rare Books: A Structured Approach for Creating a Digital Collection
International Journal of Digital Curation, 2023 Antique books, old and rare documents are fragile and vulnerable to different hazards. Preserving them for an extended period is a real challenge.
Sangeeta Chakravarty
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D-Lib Magazine, 1997 There are many projects underway that seek to digitize rare and precious old books (IBM) and also projects, such as the Gutenberg project, to convert old books to ASCII or machine readable, form.
Thibadeau, Robert, Benoit, Evan
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Yvette Duval and the Late Antique North Africa
Revista de Historiografía, 2023 Yvette Duval’s publications offer diverse and contrasting aspects about the dynamism of late-antique North Africa. I have underlined the extent to which they were able to exert a considerable influence in recent historiography.
Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri
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Framboidal pyrites in antique books
Nature, 1997 During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ink was commonly manufactured by mixing tannin with iron sulphates. The anoxic environment inside ancient books favours the reduction of the sulphate in the ink and allows spherical aggregates (framboids) of submicrometre-sized pyrite crystals (iron sulphide) to be formed.
García-Guinea, Javier +3 more
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Author in The Monuments of Late Antique Christian Hagiography [PDF]
Studia LitterarumThe paper deals with the problem of authorship in the monuments of Late Antique hagiography, namely “The Life of St. Anthony the Great” written by Athanasius of Alexandria, and “The Lausiac History” by Palladius of Helenopolis.
Alexandra S. Balakhovskaya
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Medicamenta: A Virtual Exhibition with Stories of Diseases and Remedies in Antique Books at the University of Padua (Italy). [PDF]
Med Hist, 2018 Furlani C, Ragazzi E.
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Antique ophthalmic instruments and books: the Royal College Museum [PDF]
British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2002 Part I Instruments It is perhaps appropriate that an antique ophthalmic instrument and book collection should be assembled at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in London during the 150th anniversary of Hermann von Helmholtz's discovery of the greatest of ophthalmological inventions, the ophthalmoscope.
R. Keeler
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Technique to correct yellowing and foxing in antique books
IET Image Processing, 2007 New algorithms for the automatic restoration of antique documents affected by foxing and by yellowing deterioration processes are proposed in the paper. The physical restoration of such objects is both expensive and hard to carry out by nonspecialised library personnel.
STANCO, FILIPPO, TENZE L, RAMPONI G.
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