[A single leaf from a calendar : the month of September] : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is a new acquisition for the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. This is a vellum folio from a French Book of Hours, dating 1470. It is an illuminated calendar folio from the month of September with two miniatures, one on the recto depicting a common agricultural task for the month, and on the verso a miniature of its zodiac sign (Libra).View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b838632

The works of Shakespeare (Hamlet) : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This item is one of the inaugural University of Cincinnati Adopt‐a‐Book treatments beginning in 2017. The UC Libraries Adopt‐A‐Book program provides essential funding to support the preservation, acquisition and digitization of books, manuscripts and collections held by the region’s top‐ranked research library. This item is one of numerous volumes within the collection of works edited by Charles Knight. It is a half leather binding with marbled boards. Treatment was performed to consolidate the leather, repair damaged areas of leather on the spine and to properly house two inserted textiles to facilitate safe use and display.View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b152381

Historia de la conquista de Mexico, poplacion y progressos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is a semi‐limp vellum binding. The cover has been laced to the text block through alum tawed sewing tapes and sewn endbands. There are handwritten inscriptions and a red pigment stain running along the spine.View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b170180

Rerum rusticarum libri tres : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is a limp vellum binding. Sewn on four recessed cord with v‐notches for sewing stations. Endbands are sewn on two alum tawed supports with pink (?) and yellow or white (?) thread. The back of the limp vellum cover contains handwritten black ink inscriptions. Overall, the binding is in fair condition but is in need of an enclosure and minor treatment to prevent pages from becoming lost, and to repair a paper loss in the back of the textblock.View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b158137

Photographer advertisement card : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is a 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch photographic cabinet card by the photographer Leo Weingartner. There is a head and shoulders albumen portrait of a man on the recto. On the verso, there is an advertisement printed in gold ink containing images of Industrial Expo medals and awards from 1882. The advertisement is of more importance to the library than the portrait

Christ before Caiphas from The Small Woodcut Passion, a series of 36 : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This item is a new acquisition of the DAAP teaching collection. The items in this collection are meant to be handled and used for teaching and exhibition. This is a woodcut made by Albrecht Dürer, showing Christ before Caiphas, a series of 36. The woodcut is printed in black ink on a thin leight beige laid paper. There are handwritten graphite inscriptions on the verso of the print. The print is mounted with white cloth tape on a standar matting system made of mat board. It is not known if the mat board used is archival. Below the print, there is an information label adhered to the mat board.View Item in DAAP Library Collection: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.3593785

Collection of large lung sections: a study of silicosis and other pulmonary dust conditions : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is an album of human lung cross sections that accompany a collection of coal miner studies from the 1950’s. There is also at least one cellulose acetate radiograph. Some of the lung cross sections have been digitized elsewhere, but the entirety of the album has not. This is a full black cloth‐covered album. The cloth has been impregnated with an embossed coating that gives the appearance of a leather grain. The title and imprint information is stamped in gold on the cover and spine. There are double gilt lines at the head and tail of the spine.View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b150057

[A single leaf from a Book of Hours : dance of death] : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This is a new acquisition for the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. This is a vellum folio from a Book of  Hours possibly from the region of France or Flemish around 1490, according to the dealer’s catalogue description. Originally this was bifolium that had been cut into folio, leaving ¼ of the other folio, the center fold, and the sewing holes intact.View Catalog Record: http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b838632

Arai, Ferry boats arriving at the checkpoint (Arai, Wataribune chakugan gosekisho) : Preservation Lab Treatment Report

This item is a new acquisition of the DAAP teaching collection. The items in this collection are meant to be handled and used for teaching and exhibition. This is a woodcut printed in colors on Japanese paper. According to JSTOR “Oban tate-e. Trace of old assembly on the back. Signed "Hiroshige itsu". Plate 32 from the series "The 53 Stations of Tokaido" (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi Meisho Dzuye), tate-e edition. Beautiful proof bearing the stamp of censorship (aratame, Hare 7) and of the publisher Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (ca. 1800s-1910s).” The woodcut is mounted with along the right edge with two white cloth tapes on the verso on a cardstock matting system. The cardstock matting system is floppy and does not support the print properly, but it is made of archival materials. The woodcut is printed on a thin beige Japanese paper. It is printed in colored inks. There is no information or decoration on the verso.View Item in DAAP Library Collection: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.3502448