The Art, Book and Collections foundation aims to be of help to projects concerning the study of the organization of medieval scriptoria and workshops, and their relationship with commissioners and buyers.
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The foundation aims to be of help to projects concerning materials and techniques of which books are made and their restoration. It includes the study of handwritten letters (palaeography) and handwritten books (codicology), and their possible relationship to printed forms of later periods.
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Photos in slider: photo 1: Rhyme bible of Jacob van Maerlant, 1332, illustration showing ‘Siege of Jerusalem’ © Frank Jansen, Huis van het boek; photo 2: a scheme for palimpsests reconstruction, using dataset © International Journal on Document Analysis and regognition (IJDAR); photo 3: manuscript on public display © KBR Museum, Brussels, Belgium; photo 4: restauration of a manuscript in progress © Erik Kwakkel