Treffer: Cut and Tape: Marguerite Yourcenar's Emendations to a Typescript of L'Œuvre au noir.

Marguerite Yourcenar's manuscript L'Œuvre au noir was off limits to scholars for years because of its fragile condition. In all there were 6,725 inches (17,081.5 cm) of rubber-based and synthetic adhesive tapes used in the two-volume manuscript. The primary challenge was the failure of the rubber-based adhesive, causing the composite leaves to flutter in a pile of paper scraps when a page was turned. To complicate matters, Yourcenar often typed and wrote directly on the tapes, necessitating their preservation and reattachment. It took two conservators 290 hours to stabilize this manuscript, facilitating safe consultation by researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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