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This treatment was focused on restoring the usability of the object while preserving original material and structure. The object consists of a full red leather manuscript. Text in black manuscript inks is on laid starched and burnished paper. Black, blue, green, and gold, hand-applied colorants are found in the title page decoration. Taftazani was a Muslim, Persian polymath. He wrote a number of works (grammar, theology, law, rhetoric…) that were used as textbooks. This volume is possibly a treatise on Arabic language rhetoric.

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Treatment Overview

• Cracks to the rulings were mended with solvent-activated repair tissue

• Vulnerable tears and losses to the edges and spine folds of the leaves were mended with mulberry paper adhered with a mixture of wheat starch paste and methylcellulose, avoiding sensitive media

• A loose gathering with broken sewing was resewn to the textblock

• Loose leaves at the back of the textblock were hinged with mulberry paper and a mixture of wheat starch paste and methylcellulose, avoiding sensitive media

• Detached leaves in middle of the text block were tipped in with a wheat starch paste/methylcellulose mixture