Digitization & Material Analysis

In the Heritage lab of GHB, all written cultural monuments on paper are kept from decay, starting with manuscripts, old printed books, documents, art material – pictures with calligraphy (levhas), photographs and geographical maps.
300 m2 space conservation laboratory consists of four main rooms, three storage rooms and one office. Sections were formed according to the type of the procedure, so following sections can be found: section for manual conservation, section for machine conservation, sterilization room and bookbindery.
The main task of the conservation laboratory is to take care of the rich collection of manuscripts and documents written in Ottoman Turkish language, a valuable collection of old printed books in oriental languages, old photographs and levhas, and other historically important non-library materials documented on paper.

The Archéoscience Bordeaux laboratory has one of the largest collections of instruments dedicated entirely to the analysis of heritage materials and is one of the world's leading laboratories for luminescence dating.

The Biblissima portal brings together digital data on the history of the transmission of texts written from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in both East and West, in a wide variety of supports, languages and scripts.