Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2010, Blaðsíða 242
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Anne Mette Hansen
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Summary
This article demonstrates the necessity of the accurate documentation of the
conservation of textual artefacts using the manuscript fragment am 687 d 4to
(Iceland, c. 1500) as an example. In connection with his work on an edition of
the Icelandic rune-poem, to which the fragment is the oldest extant witness,
R. I. Page (1995,1998) has reflected on the reason why the legibility seems to
have deteriorated since the end of the nineteenth century. As the conservation
policy of the Arnamagnæan Institute, estab lished in 1956, has always been
conservative Page considers it unlikely that any treatment performed in the
institute has caused the reduced legibility. An explanation might be that
Chemical reagent, which was sometimes used in the late nineteenth century,
has been applied, but in the case of am 687 d 4to there is no written documen-
tation for this, nor does the general appearance of the parchment indicate such
a treatment. The article discusses as an alternative that the fragment could
have been treated with water, another method which is also known to have
been practiced in the nineteenth century, but this cannot be supported either