A XVI Century Travel Diary as an Introduction to the Practices of Rescue and Recovery of Water Damaged Books

Authors

  • Martha Elena Romero Ramírez Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (IIB), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México Comité Mexicano Memoria del Mundo, UNESCO https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8489-5133

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.250.v2n24.29.2021

Keywords:

rescue and retrival, book conservation, shipwrecked, XVI century binding, waterlogged books, archeology of books

Abstract

This piece covers the actions taken for the care of waterlogged books in two different historical contexts. The first, found in the travel diary of friar
Bartolomé De las Casas, when in the XVI century he left Salamanca (Spain) for Ciudad Real, in Chiapas (New Spain), as written by friar Tomás de la Torre. It describes in detail the trip and the rescue and recovery of the books that were shipwrecked with the Dominicans in the Bahía de Términos. The second context includes the rescue and recovery work carried out in Florence in 1966, after they suffered a great flood. The objectives and the rescue actions carried out in these two events are analyzed and compared, as well how their actions were determined by the types of bindings of the recovered books. The question of determining the historical value of De la
Torre’s manuscript as the first document currently known that records the steps followed for the rescue and recovery of flooded books in Mexico is established.

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Author Biography

Martha Elena Romero Ramírez, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (IIB), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México Comité Mexicano Memoria del Mundo, UNESCO

A researcher at the IIB of UNAM. PhD in Book Archaeology and History of Bookbinding. Secretary of the Mexican Memory of the World Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and representative in Mexico of the European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Austria. She teaches at the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía (ENCRyM). She has participated in the conservation and archaeological study of documentary collections in Mexico. Her artistic bindings have been exhibited both in Mexico and abroad. Her lines of study and research are the history of bookbinding and book archeology, and the conservation and use of bibliographical heritage.

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2021-12-28

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Romero Ramírez, M. E. (2021). A XVI Century Travel Diary as an Introduction to the Practices of Rescue and Recovery of Water Damaged Books. Intervención, 2(24), 12–53. https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.250.v2n24.29.2021

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Vol. 2 No. 24 (2021): July-December

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