New NEDCC Story:   
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'Honoring the Past While Preparing for the Future:   
Conservation of a 15th Century Manuscript on the Life of St. Augustine'    

In 2019, the Boston Public Library brought a 15th century manuscript on the Life of St. Augustine to NEDCC for conservation treatment and digital imaging.    

As the most extensively-illustrated 'Vitae Augustini' still in existence, this manuscript is important to scholars and researchers because it contains many stories and anecdotes of St. Augustine's life not found elsewhere in any other recorded literature. The volume was at significant risk of damage, even with the gentlest use, and could no longer be safely accessed by readers making conservation an immediate priority.   

The manuscript was very unusual in that it was still bound in a binding nearly as old as the text, and both had never been conserved or altered with the exception of one or two historic paper repairs.  After conservation, the manuscript was digitized in NEDCC's Imaging Services lab, creating visually accurate, high resolution images.  

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LEARN MORE and view detailed photographs of the conservation treatment steps for this extraordinary manuscript: www.nedcc.org/stories    
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