Sinai - low humidity - high temperature ---> parchment deterioration

[Steven Avery]

Sinai Peninsula

"Low humidity will cause parchment to dessicate and embrittle, which is particularly a concern if such objects are handled with any frequency."

Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) | Parchment
https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/parchment

Author - Caroline Bendix, ACR, Accredited Library Conservator
ISBN 978 0 7123 5097 6
Design - The British Library Design Office
Damaged Books
www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/publications/booklets/damaged_books.pdf

And the temperature in Sinai

 

[Steven Avery]

CARM
Constantine Simonides & the Codex Sinaiticus - the different storage conditions effect on the parchment within the monastery and subsequent locations
https://forums.carm.org/threads/con...ubsequent-locations.16311/page-2#post-1580728

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Ahmed Shams

 

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