The Preservation and Digitisation of the Bangor Pontifical

A significant part of the project has been the conservation and digitization of the Pontifical. This first phase of the project was funded by a generous grant from the Welsh Assembly Government, commenced in February 2010 and was completed a year later. Following its disbinding in the Bangor University Archive by Mr Julian Thomas, then Head of the Conservation Unit at National Library of Wales, the Pontifical was digitized by Dr Julia Craig-McFeely, Co-Director of the specialist Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM). It was then taken to the NLW Conservation Unit in Aberystwyth for specialist repair work, where it received a new cover and a new box. The newly-conserved Pontifical returned to Bangor in October 2010, and was rededicated by the Bishop of Bangor in February 2011 in a special service in Bangor Cathedral, with music from the Pontifical and readings from the medieval Life of St Deiniol.

Pictures of the disbinding of the Pontifical by Julian Thomas (February 2010):