Ligatus - University of the Arts London (UK)

Ligatus is part of the University of the Arts London undertaking research on documentation in historical libraries and archives.

Ligatus undertakes work in the history of bookbinding, book conservation, archiving and the application of digital technology to the exploration of these fields. Ligatus’s main research projects currently include the conservation of the books in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai and the development of the Language of Bindings (LoB) thesaurus of bookbinding terms.