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Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship
Application Form 2015
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 24th April 2015 . The successful applicant
will be notified by early June 2015.
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: 27 July -3 August
Recreating the Medieval Palette by Cheryl Porter
Week 2: 3 – 7 August
Italian Stiff-Board Vellum Binding with Slotted Spine. Course Tutors - Scott W.
Devine and Tonia Grafakos
Week 3: 10 - 154August
The Rylands Fountainebleau Aldine. Course Tutor Caroline Checkley-Scott,
Stefania Signorello and Julianne Simpson
Week 4:17 – 21August
An early Islamic binding. Course Tutor Kristine Rose
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Scholarship Details
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.
Or
Start your course
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Describe your work or course subject .
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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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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
data will be used.
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Conservation By Design Limited
“Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship 2015
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’
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.
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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 2015
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 2015 rogramme is as
follows:
MONTEFIASCONE SUMMER 2015
2015 is the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist
scholar and printer who founded the Aldine Press in Venice. This also coincides
with 25 years of the conservation project in Montefiascone.
To mark both of these events two courses this year focus on this period. As well,
we plan to host an exhibition and evening seminar on the Wednesday of week 3,
12th August. More information will be posted on Facebook closer to the time.
For those in the area at the time, current and past participants, please come and
join the fun and festivities. However, please do let us know if you do plan to
come, so we have the right amount of Prosecco! simpson_julianne@hotmail.com
27 July-31 August 2015
Re-creating the Medieval Palette
Course Tutor: Cheryl Porter
This 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 mostly (though not exclusively) be on manuscript art
(Islamic and European) and participants will re-create the colours using original
recipes. Illustrated lectures will address the history, geography, chemistry, iconography
and conservation issues. Practical making and painting sessions will follow these
lectures.
3-7 August 2015
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Italian Stiff-Board Vellum Binding with Slotted Spine
Course Tutors: Scott W. Devine and Tonia Grafakos
This course will explore the use of parchment as a covering material for stiff-board
bindings. Participants will recreate a vellum over boards binding of Hesiod’s Works and
Days printed by Bartolomeo Zanetti in Venice in 1537. This style of binding was used
in Venice c. 1490 – 1670 and often characterized by the use of recycled vellum
manuscripts applied flesh side out. The binding features sewing supports covered with
alum tawed patches; the vellum over the patches is cut away, creating small slots
which allow for greater flexibility in opening. Additional structural features, including
transverse spine linings and a wide fore edge turn-in, help to balance the tension of the
vellum on the boards and limit warping.
Drawing on their recent study of similar bindings at the New York Public Library, the
Newberry Library and the University of Chicago, course tutors will discuss how this
binding style evolved and eventually fell out of use, providing an interesting case study
of the economics and aesthetics of 16th and early 17th century Venetian book
production.
Some knowledge and experience of bookbinding or book history would be useful, but
is not essential. All materials will be supplied at a nominal cost. Participants will need
to bring basic bookbinding tools. The tutors will contact prospective students well in
advance of the class with suggested readings and a list of recommended tools.
10-14 August 2015
The Rylands Fountainebleau Aldine
Course Tutors: Caroline Checkley-Scott, Stefania Signorello and Julianne
Simpson
The publishing legacy of the Aldine press includes scholarly editions of classical
authors, the introduction of italic type, and the development of books in small formats
that were read much like modern paperbacks. The smaller pocket books may have
been less expensive, but they could still be made luxurious with decoration added by
hand and bindings embellished with gold. They quickly became popular and were
collected throughout Europe by scholars, aristocrats and kings. Special copies were
also produced, printed on parchment instead of paper.
This class will focus on a copy of an edition of the Greek poet Oppian, published in
1517, bound by the Royal Binder for Henri II King of France and part of the Royal
Library at Fontainebleau. Bound in full leather in the alla Greca style, a wooden
boarded, Western /Greek style binding with claps and bosses, with gold finishing and
hand painting, it is a complex book that would ordinarily take many weeks and a high
level of binding skill to complete. We will complete a beautiful book with many of the
features, in the 5 half days (some may be longer!), with full explanations, through a
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series of talks, of how the original would have been made. *Please note on this
occasion due to time restraints it will not be a complete replica.
Those with more advanced skills may achieve results closer to the replica. All materials
can be supplied at cost.Some previous binding skill is advantageous, but even those
without, will finish with a wonderful book. Follow our blog
https://manutiusinmanchester.wordpress.com/
The book is currently on display at the John Rylands Manchester in the Merchants of
Print exhibition.
17th – 21st August 2015
An early Islamic binding
Course Tutor: Kristine Rose
This course will focus on a small 9th century Abbasid Qurʼan from Cambridge
University Library in an early historic binding.
There are relatively few early Islamic bindings extant, fewer still that remain intact and
attached to their textblock. This manuscript provides the evidence and opportunity to
explore the structure and materials of a codex which is probably from the third century
A.H. / ninth century C.E.
Participants will make a model of the structure, paying particular attention to the
significant properties of the spine lining, board attachment and endbands, before
undertaking the raised cord work decoration. This technique is found in contemporary
binding examples across both North Africa and northern Europe.
The influence of Coptic binding traditions and the transmission of binding techniques
during this period will be discussed.
Cheryl Porter has been Director of the Montefiascone Project since its inception in
1988. After graduating from Camberwell College (University of the Arts, London) she
worked at University College London Paintings Analysis Unit, analysing the use of
pigments in paintings and manuscripts. 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 a consultant for a number
of institutions with book, papyrus and manuscript collections. She has published many
articles concerning colour in manuscripts and has lectured in the USA, UK, Canada,
Australia and throughout Europe.
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Scott W. Devine is the Marie A. Quinlan Director of Preservation and Conservation at
Northwestern University Library, where he has worked since 2006. He holds a Masters
of Information Science with an Advanced Certificate in Conservation Studies from the
University of Texas at Austin and received additional training in rare book conservation
at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and at the Centro del bel libro in
Ascona, Switzerland. He is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).
Tonia Grafakos is the Chief Conservator at Northwestern University Library, where
she has worked since 2008. She holds a Masters of Information Science with an
Advanced Certificate in Conservation Studies from the University of Texas at Austin
and was the Harper Inglis Conservation Fellow at the Library of Congress. Ms.
Grafakos participated in the Gulf Coast Recovery Project after the hurricanes in
Louisiana and Mississippi and has contributed to conservation projects at the Pinos y
Sarriera Archives in Vilassar de Dalt, Spain. She is a Professional Associate of the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).
Caroline Checkley-Scott is Collection Care Manager at the University of Manchester
Library, also co-managing the Centre of Heritage Imaging and Collection
Care(CHICC).She has held posts at both the British Library and Wellcome Library. She
has acted as Chair of the Book and Paper Group for ICON. Her research interests
include the conservation of early Christian manuscripts from the Middle East,
particularly the Syriac Book and the science of parchment. She teaches conservation
and book history both nationally and internationally. She is a trustee of the National
Manuscripts Conservation Trust UK.
Julianne Simpson is Rare Books and Maps Manager at the John Rylands Library,
University of Manchester. She has a first degree in History from the University of
Western Australia and Graduate Diploma in Librarianship, previously worked in
London, Oxford and Melbourne and completed the MA in the History of the Book at the
University of London in 1997. Her research interests include the international book
trade in the 16th century, in particular the Plantin-Moretus archives in Antwerp. She is
also interested in the study of libraries in the early modern period, annotated books
and the recording of provenance in library catalogues. She has been involved with the
Monte project, on and off, since 1994, supervising the cataloguing of the library and
archives.
Stefania Signorello has been a conservator at the Wellcome Library , London for 12
years. She has a Degree in Fine Arts, and then studied Book and Paper Conservation
at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence. She has worked in Rome, Florence, Milan, Austria,
Prague and London. She held posts at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Theatre
Museum, at the Bodleian Library, and the Oxford University Archives. Her research
interests include book history and book structures. She was Chair of the Book and
Paper Group for ICON for a tenure of 3 years.
Kristine Rose is Senior Conservator at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and an
accredited member of the Institute of Conservation. Her research interests include the
conservation of Islamic manuscript material, early binding structures and the use of
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pigments and dyes in medieval manuscripts. Before moving to Ireland, Kristine has
worked at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge as Assistant Keeper (Conservator of
Manuscripts and Printed Books); at the Chester Beatty Library with a particular focus
on the Turkish manuscript collection; and at Cambridge University Library. She
graduated from the Conservation programme at Camberwell College of Arts in 2002
and is a member of The Islamic Manuscript Association.
The cost of the classes are £445 ( sterling) per week. Participants may sign up
for 1,2 3 or all four weeks. All classes are in English and prices include tuition
and many of the materials. To enrol, or for further information, please contact
Cheryl Porter on chezzaporter@yahoo.com. More information can be found on
the Montefiascone Facebook page.
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