Read our latest MU Library Treasures blog post by Sarah Graham, Conservator at Maynooth University Library, 'Dirck de Bray – Dutch Parchment Bindings,
Montefiascone 2018.' The Montefiascone project is a four week programme every year at the Seminaro Barbarigo where students and tutors come from all over the world to study
historic book structures. The seminary has a beautiful collection of books in its library which was first inventoried in c.1692 although some of its contents date back to the 15th century. Flood damage and unideal environmental conditions were the geneses of a preservation project, from which the summer school grew. Thanks to funding from Maynooth University Library, Sarah Graham, Conservator, was able to attend two of these weeks; A Study of Romanesque Sewing Techniques in Book Production taught by Jim Bloxam
and Shaun Thompson and Dirck de Bray and Beyond by Anne Hillam and Maria Fredericks. This blog will look at Dirck de Bray and how this method of production relates to items in the Special Collections and Archives. Read the blog post here; https://bit.ly/2MZVG0g