Реставрация на силно увредени текстове в ръкописи – етични и технологични проблеми
Restoration of Badly Damaged Texts of Manuscripts: Ethical and Technological Challenges

Summary/Abstract: There are a variety of factors resulting in bad damages to texts in handwritten books and documents. Restorers’ intervention in such cases seeks to preserve the information, contained in the texts. It would often entail complex technological solutions intended to keep the integrity of the document, the writing material, the inks, and the book’s construction. Restoration is meant to recover the physical consolidation of the object without shocking changes in its appearance or lessening of its art qualities and genuineness. The article presents in detail the restoration methods applied on several objects with similar problems, i.e. damaged texts: manuscripts and documents on parchment, wooden boards of book covers. Much attention is given to the problems with “extinct” texts, damaged by corrosed iron-gall inks. Also, the use in such cases of the newest technologies is commented with the view of their possible implementation in Bulgaria.

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