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Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship
Application Form 2013
Please send the completed and signed application form, to:
Pauline Hutchinson
The Conservation By Design, Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship.
Conservation By Design Limited
Timecare Works
5 Singer Way
Kempston
Bedford
MK42 7AW
FAX: +44 (0)1234 852 334
E-mail : pauline.hutchinson@cxdltd.com or Cheryl Porter chezzaporter@yahoo.com
By post, Fax or e-mail and to arrive not later than 28th April 2013 . The successful applicant
will be notified by early June 2013.
Please note that the main criteria will be for applicants with bookbinding or book conservation
skills. This includes both students and practicing conservators. Priority will be given to applicants
with no other form of funding.
It is important to include photographs or CD-Rom of your work and, if you would like to
include references please feel welcome to do so.
The scholarship will be an award of £1500 towards the cost of attending the Montefiascone Book
Conservation Summer School held each year in the medieval hill town of Montefiascone.
Located between Rome and Siena and situated next to lake Bolsena and close to the beautiful
Etruscan City of Orvieto.
There are four separate courses given by different tutors and the scholarship can be used
towards the cost of attending one or all four weeks.
Applicant Details (please type or PRINT clearly )
Name:
Mrs/ Mr
Address:
Email:
Telephone:
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 What is your relevant experience?
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What is your occupation?
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How did you hear about the Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship Trust
 Describe how you hope to benefit from the scholarship
(Please continue on a separate sheet of paper if necessary)
Scholarship Details
 Please underline which course or courses you wish to attend:
Week 1: 29th July-2nd August
Recreating the Medieval Palette by Cheryl Porter
Week 2: 5th-9th August
The Syriac Book: Caroline Checkley-Scott and John Mumford
Week 3: 12th - 16th August
Mamluk bindings: Kristine Rose (Alison Ohta)
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Scholarship Details
Week 4: August 19 – 23rd
Gothic Binding (late 13th cent): Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson
Qualifications
(List all relevant qualifications gained)
Career History (Including Students):
Current Employment (or College)
 Name and address of employer (or College).
 When did you (either):
Start working for your present employer.
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Start your course
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Describe your work or course subject .
Previous Employment (or college)
 Name and address of employer (or college):
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How long were you employed (or training):
 Describe your work or course subject:
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Have you tried to obtain funds from elsewhere and if so from whom and did they grant
you any funds?
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Have you attended the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School
before? Yes/No
If Yes – when ?
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Should I be awarded the Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship, I agree to:
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Co-operate with any Conservation By Design press publicity about my award with
a view to encouraging others to apply for scholarships. This may include the use
of relevant photographs which may be published.
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Date
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relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and we will do our utmost to ensure that such data will be accurate,
complete and kept up to date. Whenever personal data is obtained from you, you will have access to information as to how that
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“Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship 2013”
In 2005 Stuart Welch the owner of Conservation By Design Limited in remembrance of his dear friend Dr
Nicholas Hadgraft, who died on July the 4th 2004, decided to offer the annual Conservation By Design
‘Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship’
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The scholarship is an award of £1500 towards the cost of attending the Montefiascone Book
Conservation Summer School founded by Cheryl Porter. Held each year in the medieval hill town of
Montefiascone that is located between Rome and Siena. Montefiascone is situated next to lake Bolsena
and close to the beautiful Etruscan City of Orvieto.
There are four separate courses of one-week duration given by different tutors and the scholarship can
be used towards the cost of attending one or all four weeks.
Nicholas was a regular tutor at Montefiascone from its beginnings and took great pleasure imparting his
knowledge and sharing his love of books and bookbinding with like-minded individuals.
The courses coincide with the towns wine festival that offers a wonderful atmosphere for social
interaction alongside study and gaining new skills. It is hoped that this scholarship will be a fitting tribute
and allow the worthy recipient to share what Nicolas enjoyed so much about Montefiascone.
MONTEFIASCONE PROJECT
SUMMER 2013
Montefiascone is a small medieval walled city about 100 k (80 miles) north of Rome, on Lake
Bolsena. Since 1988 conservators and others interested in books and their history have come
together to work, to learn and to enjoy this special place. The summer 2013 programme is as
follows:
MONTEFIASCONE PROJECT SUMMER 2013
Montefiascone is a small medieval walled city about 100 k (80 miles) north of Rome,
on Lake Bolsena. Since 1988 conservators and others interested in books and their
history have met here to work, to learn about books and to enjoy this special place.
The Montefiascone Project is pleased to announce the provissional programme for
summer 2013 is as follows:
Recreating the Medieval Palette July 29th – August 2nd 2013
Course Tutor: Cheryl Porter
The class will study the colours (made from rocks,minerals, metals, insects and plants)
that were processed to produce the colours used by artists throughout the medieval
era. The focus will be mostly (though not exclusively) on manuscript art, both Islamic
and European. Participants will recreate the colours using original recipes. Illustrated
lectures will address the history, geography, chemistry, iconography and conservation
issues. Practical making and painting sessions will follow the lectures.
The Syriac Book: 5th - 9th August 2013
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Course Tutor: Caroline Checkley-Scott and John Mumford
Manuscript Syriac 27 from the John Rylands Library at Manchester University is known
as Abu Halim, from the East Syrian Catholikos (Elia 111 Abu Halim and others).
Though it has an elaborate colophon, stating that the book was made in 1740, this
style of binding has remained unchanged and can be found on books from the 7th
century AD. With link stitch sewing onto wooden boards, with elaborate end bands
extending onto the boards, and with full-thickness leather covers, the books have a
most distinctive appearance. Using sample bindings and illustrated with Powerpoint,
comparisons will be made with both Christian and Islamic style contemporary bindings.
Some knowledge and experience of bookbinding or book history would be useful, but
is not essential. All materials can be supplied (at cost) and participants will need to
bring basic bookbinding equipment and tools. Handouts and a reading list will be
provided in advance and during the class.
Mamluk bindings: 12th – 16th August 2013
Course Tutor: Kristine Rose (Alison Ohta)
Mamluk bindings represent the pinnacle of Islamic book design. Whilst their structure
seems to differ little from the generalised type-II binding described by Deroche, their
decoration is refined and complex- a true demonstration of the skill of the
accomplished book artists working in Egypt and Syria during the reign of the Mamluk
Sultanate between 1250–1516. During this course participants will make a simple
model of an Islamic binding structure, before focusing on the decoration techniques
which make these bindings so astounding. This will include geometric design and cold
tooling, printed leather doublures, and the application of gold.
Early Gothic Binding (late 13th cent 19th – 23rd August 2013
Course Tutor: Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson
Manuscript CUL Add. 4080, Preces et Meditationes is a very small scale devotional
manuscript. It has been identified as coming from the Cistercian convent of Medingen,
near Lüneburg Heath, North Germany. Its exceptional contemporary binding has
interesting structural features, including a textile lining and a covering of alum-tawed
skin, dyed red, over bevelled oak boards. The binding has the addition of brass fittings
and fixtures and intricate blind tooling. The beautifully executed secondary braided
endbands are an exquisite early example of a technique which was to continue and
become widely used in Northern European bindings of the late 15th and early 16th
centuries. As part of this manuscript’s binding they are an important element both
structurally and aesthetically
Cheryl Porter has been Director of the Montefiascone Project since its
inception in 1988. After graduating from Camberwell College (University of
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the Arts, London) she worked at University College London Paintings
Analysis Unit, analysing the use of pigments in paintings and manuscripts.
From 1992-2006 she worked as a freelance conservator, mostly for
universities and learned institutions. She was Manager of Conservation
and Preservation at the Dar al-Kutub (National Library and Archives of
Egypt) and Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation 2007-2010 and is currently
employed as a Consultant for a number of institutions with book, papyrus
and manuscript collections in Egypt. She has published many articles
concerning colour in manuscripts and has lectured in the USA, UK,
Canada, Australia and throughout Europe.
Caroline Checkley-Scott is currently Collections Care Manager at the
University of Manchester Library. She also co-runs the Centre of Heritage
imaging and Collections Care (CHICC). Her research interests include the
conservation of early Christian Manuscripts from the Middle East,
particularly the Syriac book, the Biccherne of Siena and the DNA of
parchment. Caroline was formerly Head of Conservation at the Wellcome
Library, and before, at the British Library. She teaches on The History of
the Book course at Manchester University, has lectured nationally and
internationally, and has acted as consultant for the National Library of
Egypt in Cairo.
John Mumford is currently Head of Manuscript Conservation at the
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation in Cairo, Egypt. He was formerly Head of
Book Conservation at the British Library. John served a five-year
apprenticeship at the British Museum and subsequently helped to
establish the Rare and Early Book Conservation Studio at the British
Library. In 1992 he was appointed Manager of the Oriental and India
Office Book Conservation Studio, furthering his study of early Oriental and
Eastern binding structures. In 1998 he became manager of the Oriental
and Eastern Book Conservation Studio at the new British Library premises
at St Pancras, London. He has frequently taught at Montefiacone and
lectured and run workshops throughout the UK, Argentina, Patmos and
many European locations.
Kristine Rose ACR is Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books
(Assistant Keeper) at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Her research
interests include the conservation of Islamic manuscript material, early
binding structures and the use of pigments and dyes in medieval
manuscripts. Between 2008- 2001 Kristine worked at the Chester Beatty
Library in Dublin with a particular focus on the Turkish collections. Prior to
this she was a Conservator at Cambridge University Library where she
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worked on a wide range of conservation projects including Islamic and
Western rare book and manuscript material. Kristine has a degree in
Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts and is an accredited
member of ICON.
Lectures will be delivered by Alison Ohta, director of the Royal Asiatic
Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and she is a representative
of the Islamic manuscript association. Her interests include Islamic
manuscripts and their bindings, their conservation and collection. She
obtained her phd at SOAS university of London with a thesis on Mamluk
manuscript bindings.
Jim Bloxam, Head of Conservation, Cambridge University Library, UK. is
an Accredited Conservator of the Institute of Conservation. His particular
research interests lie mainly in the history of books; their structural
qualities and their cultural context. He has taught historical book structures
in the UK, Europe and the US, focusing mainly on Romanesque and
Gothic book structures.
Shaun Thompson is a bench trained bookbinder with twenty-five years’
experience. He has worked at Cambridge University Library since 2003.
During this time Shaun has taken the opportunity to examine and recreate
some of the medieval bindings within the library. He has sought to share
his knowledge and skills by teaching a number of practical workshops in
the UK. Winner of last year’s Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship, Shaun is
looking forward to returning to Montefiascone to share his ever widening
knowledge and experience
The cost of the classes is TBA and includes all tuition (which is in English)
and most materials. The Montefiascone project is a not-for-profit
organisation, and all extra monies are used to finance the cataloguing and
conservation and preservation of the collection.
For further information or to register for one or more weeks, please contact
Cheryl Porter: chezzaporter@yahoo.com.
More information is available on the website: www.monteproject.com
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application