The manuscript was repaired in the 1880s when the spine was replaced and the fastening remade. The manuscript was repaired again in 2010.
Preservation and conservation of manuscripts
Manuscript collectors from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment period have contributed to the preservation of literature from the Antiquity and Middle Ages. Thanks to their eagerness to collect manuscripts, texts that otherwise would have been lost have been rescued and preserved to this day. Many of these manuscripts would have been kept in less than optimal conditions, others
The preservation and conservation of manuscripts is part of a library or manuscript collection's management of the textual cultural heritage. These tasks are carried out by professionally trained conservators.
See below two examples of the conservation of manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection or read about some important manuscript collectors.
Care and conservation seminar
The seminars on the care and conservation of manuscripts have been held at the University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library of Denmark since 1994. The seminars are interdiscplinary and aim to bring together conservators, librarians, archivists, scholars, curators and others who work with manuscripts and early printed books in any capacity.
The 17th seminar on the care and conservation of manuscripts was held in Copenhagen from the 11th to the 13th of April 2018. Find more details on the seminar website.
The book series Care and Conservation of Manuscripts contains articles based on the seminars. Visit Museum Tusculanum Press for more information.