COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MANUSCRIPT CONSERVATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TEZ 3005 MANUSCRIPT CONSERVATION COMPULSORY 1 2 0 3

Offered By

Ancient Turkish Calligraphy

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Ancient Turkish Calligraphy
Art of Illumination
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy

Course Objective

Document in writing the paper which culturel heritage artwork and material, paper, notebooks, edict, maps, printed books and so on. favorable environment and conditions, preservation, storage, relevant teaching resources and library research done.



Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Presentation of manuscripts, and manuscript writing paper used in the work of protecting the principles of the constituent materials, paper, structure and features, paper types, paper restoration material information, to present the acquisition of competence, the acquisition of information about varieties,
2   Materials such as manuscripts and archival documents conservation manuscript works of science and culture in the service of a particular state legislation for submission of istifadeye studies (consultation) to develop the knowledge and skills,to have a professional responsibility and ethical awareness.
3   Maintenance cleaning of manuscripts, artefacts a library, museum, store, gallery of works in environments such as storage conditions, deterioration in the mechanical elements of the natural destruction of archival documents the main features of the physical, chemical biological purpose to avoid losing information from the studies in order to provide protection in certain circumstances acquisition of competence to offer,
4   Protection principles manuscripts, to have professional responsibility and ethical awareness, conservation issues related to the competence, expertise and skills to transform the information obtained. Preservation of manuscripts in the world and in Turkey where they are transferred to digital media studies and the protection of these works provide and develop the professional knowledge to use.
5   Preservation of manuscripts in accordance with the principles of conservation and repair of different disciplines, utilizing an effective way to offering the provision of practical work, is expected.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Literature survey about conservation, restoration of manuscripts
2 Some of the archives materials restoration such as books and paper
3 Preparing material for restoration of manuscripts, taking picture before restoration.
4 Basic principles of the conservation and preservation
5 International standarts of conservation
6 Destructive factors ,oxidation-acidification and colors and chemical instabilities electromagnetic destructives
7 Environmental factors, heat, light, moisture,pollution, The damage caused by people
8 Equipment and materials necessary for the conservation of the classical paper
9 Protection and conservation of manuscripts related to the planning, protection and conservation research, building parts
10 Conservation storage, state buildings, storage equipment, archive boxes, dust and dirt protection and fire protection from natural disasters such as floodings, biological destruction of microorganisms-fungal stains-insect foxing and rodent protection of living things, etc.
11 General maintenance works of manuscripts and materials, applications, smoothing the destruction of harmful substances use of valuable documents, manuscripts packaging, to ensure supervision, struggle against the damaging elements of the building; the procedures, documentation procedures to be applied
12 Detections on the damaged paper documentation and applications of manuscripts
13 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

KATHPALIA, Yash Pal; Arşiv Malzemesinin Korunması ve Restorasyonu,Çev:Nihal SOMER,T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü,Cumhuriyet Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı,Yayın No:6, Başbakanlık Basımevi, Ankara 1990 XLVII
Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi ndeki Belgelerin Restorasyon Bakımından Genel Durumu;
Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi ndeki Belge Türleri, Padişah El Yazmaları Ve Belge Restorasyonu, T.C.Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı, Istanbul 1997,s.147-195
HUBBE Martin A., BROWDEN Cindy: Handmade Paper: A Review of Its History,Craft,And Science, BioResources 4(4), 2009 ,1736-1792 pages
ROPER,MICHAEL, Koruma ve Konservasyon Servisinin Planlanmasi,Techizatlandirilmasi ve Personel Istihdami,Ankara 1994,89.S.
Additional Sources: DAHL, Svend; Kitabın Tarihi, Antik Çağdan Günümüze Kadar her Yönüyle, Çev: Mehmet DÜNDAR, T.C Kültür Bakanlığı Milli Kütüphaneler Başkanlığı, Çeviri Eserler Dizisi, Milli Kütüphane Basımevi
Ankara 1999, XII+335.S.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Recognition of manuscripts, writing materials, which recognize the work, protection of culture and protection of manuscripts in a workshop environment to give theoretical and practical information.
visual power point presentations, group work, participation, theoretical knowledge of all works of applied studies, (photographic documentation, practical examples, references, etc.). presentations will be informed in order to develop.


Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 ATT ATTENDANCE
5 FIN FINAL EXAM
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.30
7 RST RESIT
8 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.20 + RST * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

This course involves 1 theoretical course credits; and 2 practical course credits. In the educational year, both a mid-term exam and a final exam are given to the students so as to make them comprehend the course content during the lessons. By means of the exams, how much information given by the books and notes has been grasped, and at what degree the practices related to the designs have been turned into skills will be evaluated. The students will be supposed to prepare an assignment and present it in the course systematics they have grasped.
It is important for the students to attend classes because they can improve their drawing skills and because this applied course is the main course of the discipline the students related to. So, the attendance will be taken into consideration.
At the end of the term, by considering ethical, systematic, organizational and esthetical principles, each student will represent his project with a file including project stages.

Assessment Criteria

Exams will be evaluated out of 100. This grade will be determined according to the number of the questions to be asked in the exams. And also, the project, the assignment presentation and the attendance will be evaluated out of 100.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Participation in courses taken in the course, even those from the course after the start time are taken into consideration the participation of half a course. All entries will be considered above the general rate. Towards the end of each lecture topics will be covered in the next lesson the student is offered as a subject of study and research. The first description of the issue presented in the lesson after the class discussion of research results before the study begins.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)


tulin.adanir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 9.00 am / 12.00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Preparing assignments 1 2 2
Preparations for tutorials (project, lab work, etc.) 13 1 13
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.15
LO.255
LO.355
LO.4555
LO.555