The conservation of the immense archival heritage of a country like Italy presents scholars
with the enormous challenge of finding techniques and procedures that enable rapid and …

Subject to environmental influences such as temperature, humidity, light, and
microorganisms, leather-based relics are easily be deteriorated, which will damage their …

The effectiveness of ionizing radiations for the preservation of cultural heritage (CH) has
been recently demonstrated. Although these processes present many advantages with …

The effects of X-ray irradiation, a potential disinfection method, produced in parchment
samples with different extent of artificial ageing have been investigated to analyse the …

Precious cultural heritage has been inherited through past activities and maintained by the
generations, and it includes artifacts and objects preserved in institutes or museum areas …

In this work, the effect of X-ray irradiation as a disinfection treatment in original ancient
parchment samples, belonging to a discarded book cover of a 16th-century archival register …

Alum-tawed skin has been widely used in the past for the production of bookbindings
elements because of its physical–mechanical properties and production process, easier and …

In this work, the application of nanodiamond (ND)‐composites and dispersions as
consolidating agents for parchment substrates has been studied. Different nanocomposites …

The historical artefacts of parchment are prone to degradation if the storage conditions are
improper due to the collagen structure having a limited stability under physical, chemical …

This paper presents the use of X-ray computed tomography and X-ray fluorescence in the
analysis and expert research of the seventeenth century printed book" Eukhologīon albo …