Advancements in the Conservation and Restoration of Ancient Manuscripts
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heritage sciences; analytical chemistry; spectroscopic analysis; materials and painting techniques used to produce illuminated manuscripts based on in-situ non-invasive techniques
Interests: conservation and restoration; parchment studies; biocodicology; DNA; metagenomics; proteomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ancient Manuscripts are fundamental testimonies of culture, art and knowledge, reflecting the social and economic context of their production environment. In the last decades, the study of Ancient Manuscripts has shifted from invasive to non-invasive analysis. At the same time, the richness of information regarding their production and degradation has increased. With more accurate information regarding the materials, painting formulations and degradation phenomena, new advancements in the Conservation and Restoration of Ancient Manuscripts have allowed for the preservation of these artworks for the future generations.
This Special Issue aims to gather works on state-of-the-art approaches to the material characterisation of Ancient Manuscripts (support, inks, colour paints, binding), the developments of new approaches to their Conservation and Restoration and the latest findings regarding the Art and Technological Source Research production of these artworks.
Given your expertise in this field of research, we invite you to submit your recent developments in this field to this Special Issue: “Advancements in the Conservation and Restoration of Ancient Manuscripts”.
Dr. Catarina Miguel
Dr. Ana Catarina Pinheiro
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- parchment
- pigments
- dyes
- degradations
- conservation approaches
- material characterisation
- imaging analysis
