Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
by Sammy Gecsoyler from Science | The Guardian on (#6T5QR)
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island's most important historical texts
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.
The ecclesiastical register, which dates back to the medieval period, is about 650 years old. It belonged to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweteman.
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