Development of a diagnostic and cleaning tool for paper artworks: a case of study

Here we report the results obtained by applying the proposed system to the “Breviarium Romanum ad usum Fratrum Minorum”, a breviary of the 18th century, highlighting the advantage and the potentiality of this new tool with respect to the traditional old paper cleaning methodology. To perform a complete characterization of the proposed system, several invasive and non-invasive techniques, such as spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, high-performance liquid chromatography analysis and pH measurements have been used.