Nowe kierunki w obszarze konserwacji-restauracji zabytkowych kodeksów
New trends in the field of conservation-restoration of historic codices

Summary/Abstract: After World War II, the rules of conservation-restoration of historic objects in Poland were liberalised. The so called “Polish school of conservation” allowed significant interferences in the historic objects, which was often dictated not only by the will to obtain good technical condition of an object, but also – especially when compared to contemporary tendencies – excessive enhancement of aesthetic qualities. That approach to conservation practice existed in dissonance with the conservation theory in Western Europe at the time. This fact was noticed in Poland and sorted out, starting with the creation of conservation doctrines and rules, and also a code of ethics for the profession. In practice, however, there are still examples of actions anchored in the former aesthetics, carried out not according to the compulsory rules. Awareness of the changes made in the field of conservation-restoration must also reach non-conservation domains: principals, owners, collection keepers. They need to be aware of these changes, because it is their role to provide preventive conservation and commission conservations, and thus co-decide on the programme. The article’s goal is to inform the keepers of historic book collections about the changes, so that together, as a result of cooperation between various fields deciding about the condition of collections, it will be possible to create the best possible programmes of conservational care on every level (from preventive conservation to conservation-restoration).

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