The legislative texts regarding the protection of Cultural Heritage and their safeguard define “Cultural Heritage” everything mobile and immobile, which is a statement, having the value of a process of achieving civilization. Always, the civilization has used the writing to let the testimony of an era and the cultural value it has achieved. For this reason the parchment and paper materials are submitted under protection and the interventions must follow the rules of the conservative restoration.
The main supports used were the papyrus, the parchment and finally the paper, all of them particularly fragile materials of organic origin. Like a painted canvas or a sculpture, a medieval codex, a renaissance drawing or a eighteenth-century engraving must be undergo to preliminary study and safety procedures.

Considering that we are dealing with a material of biological origin, it is essential to the operation of disinfestations from insects and bio-deteriogens organisms, which feed on this kind of material: the manuscripts should be enclosed in a gas chamber and held here for several days and for more than one cycle, to remove insects and any eggs present.

Afterward, you can do the dusting and cleaning of spots, burns, patinas and various deposits. The shredded parts are reassembled, the gaps re-integrated through neutral material and those parts more destroyed undergo to the reinforcement of the original features of design or writing, to return a readable text. If necessary, the support is reconstituted with a new binding, trying to respect the ancient techniques.
At the end of the operations, it may prepare a guidance report summarizing on how the conservation of the manufacture (ideal conditions of humidity, illumination, possible exhibition support).