Karin Scheper

Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

Title	Description	People	Date
Talk 4: Textiles from East to West: case studies from the Leiden collections	Building on earlier talks in the series that explored the uses of textiles in library collections, this talk focuses on examples of textiles in manuscript bindings in the Oriental collections of Leiden University Library.	Karin Scheper, Alice Evans	24 January, 2022
Books, Bags and Boxes	Islamic manuscripts were often kept in protective bags and other enclosures, which are an integrated, though understudied part of their physical and historic appearance.	Karin Scheper	29 July, 2021
Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations	The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward.	Karin Scheper	20 April, 2020