Publications - Karin Scheper

• 'Between Bag and Box: Characteristics and Conservation Issues of the Islamic Slipcase', co-authored with David Plummer, and Paul Hepworth. In: Suave Mechanicals : Essays on the History of Bookbinding Vol. 8, ed. Julia Miller, 2023, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Legacy Press, pp. 458-509.

• 'A Complete Coptic Codex: A Material Study and Conservation Approach of a Relatively Unknown Bound Papyrus Manuscript', co-authored with Eliza Jacobi, and Eve Menei. In: Suave Mechanicals : Essays on the History of Bookbinding Vol. 8, ed. Julia Miller, 2023, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Legacy Press, pp. 154-195.

• 'Bindings, Bags and Boxes: Sewn and Unsewn Manuscript Formats in the Islamic World'. In: Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding. Studies in Manuscript Cultures. Allesandro Bausi and Michael Friedrich (ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 121-154. Online:  Open Access

• Contributions to Chapters "Eastern Mediterranean Bindings" and "Southeast Asian Bindings", in: Conservation of Books. Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology, Abigail Bainbridge (ed.). London: Routledge, 2023.

• 'From the eyries of Yemen to the pastures of Holland. The acquisition and preservation of Yemeni manuscripts at Leiden University Library', co-authored with Arnoud Vrolijk. In: Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril. Gorgias Handbook 49, Ansari & Schmidtke (eds.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022, pp. 485-515.

• 'Op een haar na perkament'. In: Boekbanden. Bij het afscheid van Rens Top als conservator boekbanden van de KB. Erik Geleijns & Ellen van Oers (eds.). Den Haag/Amsterdam: 2022, pp. 151-155. [On three South-East Asian manuscripts covered or bound in haired skin.]

• 'Islamic manuscripts in training programmes and on the workbench: Raising awareness of cultural-appropriate practices in conservation'. In: Bestanderhaltung in Europa und Ostasien. Festschrift für Reinhard Feldmann. Herausgegeben von Armin Schlechter und Michael Herkenhoff. Wiesbaden: Harrassowithz Verlag, 2021, pp. 131-153.

• 'Communicating about Islamic manuscripts', co-authored with Paul Hepworth. In :  Care and conservation of manuscripts 17, Proceedings of the seventeenth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 11th–13th April 2018, ed. M.J. Driscoll, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2021, pp. 597-610.

• 'Balancing conservation decisions. Preserving material evidence of original structures and repair techniques in a Yemeni manuscript digitization project'. In: Zbornik radova Prve međunarodne konferencije o zaštiti pisanog naslijeđa, Sarajevo: Katalogizacija u publikaciji Nacionalna i univerzitetska biblioteka, 2020, pp. 197-203.

• 'Modest Manuscripts in Fine Fabrics', The New Bookbinder, Vol. 40, 2020, pp. 9-18.

• 'Zestiende-eeuwse Venetiaanse boekbanden om Hebreeuwse drukken in de Warnercollectie'. In: Om het boek. Cultuurhistorische bespiegelingen over boeken en mensen. Eds. Wim van Anrooij et al., Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2020, pp. 110-116.

• 'Endband varieties in the Islamic world'. In: Suave Mechanicals : Essays on the History of Bookbinding Vol. 5, ed. Julia Miller, 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Legacy Press, pp. 352-430.

• Second edition of The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding. Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties, Leiden: Brill, 2019.

• ‘Shifting sands of writing inks in Yemen. The occurrence of sparkling particles in Yemeni manuscripts’, co-authored with Anne Regourd. In:  Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 7 (2018), 26, pp. 141-183.  Available online :  PDF

• 'Hands-on research : Its place in conservation training, in practice and the need for us to write about it', Journal of Paper Conservation 18 (2017), 3, pp. 109-115.

• 'De studie van het boek als object, de restaurator als onderzoeker', Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 24, Nijmegen, 2017, pp. 126-141.

• Book review. 'Bound to be Modern. Publishers' Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840-1914, written by Kristina Lundblad', Quaerendo, 47, 2017, pp. 74-78.

• Book review. 'English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800, written by David Pearson', Quaerendo, 45, 2015, pp. 323-328.

• The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding. Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties, Leiden: Brill, 2015.

• Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies. An Introduction, eds. A. Bausi et.al., Hamburg, 2015. Contributions to Chapter 1 and Chapter 5.

• The Islamic Bookbinding Tradition. A Book Archaeological Study. Dissertation, Leiden University, 2014.

• 'Preserving the Islamic manuscript as an artefact. Some object characteristics and treatment considerations', Uluslararasi cilt sanati buluşmasi sempozyumu: Tebliğler (International meeting of bookbinding: Bijdragen), Istanbul, 2014, pp. 98-104.

• 'Neither weak nor simple. Adjusting our perception of Islamic manuscript structures', Care and conservation of manuscripts 14, Copenhagen, 2014, pp. 253-269.

• 'Three very specific binding features, shedding new light on Islamic manuscript structures', Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, vol.  4, 1-2013, pp. 82-109.

• Turcksche Boucken, A. Vrolijk, J. Schmidt, K. Scheper. Den Haag-Leiden, 2012.

• 'Refining the classification of Islamic Manuscript Structures', New approaches to Book and Paper Conservation, eds. P. Engel, J. Schirò and R. Larsen, Horn/Wenen: Verlag Berger, 2011, pp. 357-388.

• 'Tyvek in Book Conservation. Its use for nineteenth-century material and parchment bindings', Journal of Paper Conservation, 12 (3), 2011, pp. 6-15.

• ---, & A.J.M. Vrolijk, 'Made in China. Physical aspects of Islamic manuscripts from Xinjiang in Leiden University Library', Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2, 2011, pp. 50-69.

• 'Islamic manuscripts in a western research library: The conservation approach in the University Library of Leiden', Care and Conservation of Manuscripts, eds. M.J. Driscoll and R. Mósesdóttir, Vol. 12, Copenhagen, 2011, pp. 151-169.

• 'Considering Book Conservation. Developments in Materials, Techniques, and Approaches', Journal of Paper Conservation Vol. 11 (2), 2010, pp. 31-36.

• 'Ontwikkelingen in boekconservering. Verschuivingen in het denken over collectiebehoud en de uitvoering van interveniërende conservering', Archievenblad, jrg. 114, 2010, pp. 18-20.

• Boekrestauratie in beweging. Ontwikkelingen in materialen, techniek en ethiek, University Library Leiden, 2009.

• 'Bosvruchten, beesten en nagelgaten' (on a special bound volume once owned by Joseph Scaliger), Omslag, 3, 2009, pp. 5-6.

• 'Islamitische manuscripten in een Westerse wereld. Religieuze waarden en enkele conserveringsaspecten', CR, 3, 2008, pp. 38-41.

• 'The Conservation of the Middle Eastern manuscript collection in the Leiden University Library; Results of a conservation assessment survey', Contributions to the Symposium on the Care and Conservation of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Melbourne, 2007, pp. 66-73.

• 'Simple and Adequate Conservation Covers. Some thoughts on Classical Conservation Bindings and Four Flap Folders', Papierrestaurierung. Mitteilungen der IADA, 8, 2007, pp. 30-35.

• 'guidelines for the use of phytate for iron-gall ink treatment', co-authored with Birgit Reissland and Sabine Fleischer, see: Ink corrosion Treatment and Ink corrosion: The Christiaan Huygens Case Study , 2007.

• 'Een onderzoek naar Evacon-R. Gedrag en toepassingen van een witte lijm', CR, 1, 2005, pp. 32-34.

• Weten geweten gewist: bedreigde wetenschappelijke collecties in archieven en bibliotheken. European Commission on Preservation and Access ; [tekst en samenst.: Gabriëlle Beentjes ... et al.] Amsterdam, 1997. (On the evolution of text carriers and their preservation problems)