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Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials (1998-2001) in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, St. Catherine’s Monastery (Egypt), and the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials (2001-2006) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology (2007-2009) at King’s College London. He pursued a PhD (2010-2015) on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts, London).
Book conservator & PhD Candidate, Université Panthéon Sorbonne
Elodie Leveque has been working on the examination and preservation of manuscripts, predominantly on parchment, for the past 10 years. She is a Senior Conservator in Trinity College Dublin and previously worked at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS) in Paris as a research engineer. Her main focus has been on medieval bindings from the Clairvaux collection of manuscripts which, for the past 5 years, she has been examining and describing for the IRHT’s Bibale database, in particular the structures and constitutive materials of medieval bindings from Clairvaux Abbey – including leather and parchment. In that context, she has been working closely with BioArCh in York in the UK, to identify the animal species of leather and parchment from manuscripts.
Specialize in conservation of parchment, participated on EU project IDAP (Improved Damage Analyses of Parchment) and several other research projects in the field of the conservation of parchment of illuminated manuscripts. His research includes experimental parchment making and production of manuscripts in which he is regularly giving workshops, lectures and publishes articles.
Marie Vest trained as a conservator at the School of Conservation in Copenhagen and 1996-2004 she was a lecturer and researcher at the school. From 1990-2004 she participated in the European research projects on leather and parchment, STEP, Environment, MAP and IDAP coordinated from the school. Since 2004 she is head of Preservation at the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. The department covers preventive conservation for large collections, climate quality in storage, conservation and binding of individual objects. Recent research projects in the department focus on quality of climate quality in the storage rooms, conservation data and machine learning and visual analysis of parchment.
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