Black Egyptian inks in Late Antiquity: new insights on their manufacture and use

T Ghigo, I Rabin, P Buzi - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
We present here our methodological approach applied to the study of Egyptian inks in Late
Antiquity. It is based on an interdisciplinary strategy, bringing together a variety of disciplines …

The practice of writing inside an Egyptian monastic settlement: preliminary material characterisation of the inks used on Coptic manuscripts from the Monastery of Apa …

T Ghigo, MJ Albarrán Martínez - Heritage Science, 2021 - Springer
Over the last few years, the Federal Institute for material research (BAM, Berlin) together with
the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC, University of Hamburg) have …

Material studies of historic inks: transition from carbon to iron-gall inks

I Rabin - Traces of ink, 2021 - brill.com
This chapter offers observations and considerations concerning black writing inks
encountered in writing supports transmitting documentary and literary texts of the late …

An attempt at a systematic study of inks from Coptic manuscripts

T Ghigo, O Bonnerot, P Buzi, M Krutzsch, O Hahn… - manuscript …, 2018 - iris.uniroma1.it
manuscript cultures Page 1 mcNo 11 ISSN 1867–9617 Hamburg | Centre for the Study of
Manuscript Cultures 2018 manuscript cultures manuscript cultures N o 11 Natural Sciences and …

Establishing the original order of the poems in Harward's Almanac using paleography, codicology, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and statistical analysis

V Biolcati, J Woolley, É Lévêque, A Rossi… - Heritage Science, 2023 - Springer
This work presents the results of a transdisciplinary analysis performed on Harward's
Almanac (Dublin, 1666), an extremely rare volume currently housed in the National Library …

A new standard protocol for identification of writing media

C Colini, I Shevchuk, KA Huskin, I Rabin… - … Written Artefacts. Objects …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Our standard protocol for the characterisation of writing materials within advanced
manuscript studies has been successfully used to investigate manuscripts written with a …

Characterization of the Dead Sea Scrolls by advanced analytical techniques

I Rabin, O Hahn - Analytical methods, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
For many years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, text analysis and fragment
attribution were the main concern of the scholars dealing with them. The uncertain …

Material Characterisation of 19–20th Century Manuscripts from Northern Thailand

S Sathiyamani, S Ngiam, O Bonnerot… - … Journal for the …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Material analysis was carried out on four manuscripts from Northern Thailand, which
included two palm-leaf manuscripts and two paper manuscripts. The two palm-leaf …

Between Literary and Documentary Practices: The Montserrat Codex Miscellaneus (Inv. Nos. 126‐178, 292, 338) and the Material Investigation of Its Inks

T Ghigo, S Torallas Tovar - 2020 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The Montserrat Codex Miscellaneus (TM 59453/LDAB 552) has been the subject of
numerous studies since the publication of its first text by its owner, father Ramon Roca-Puig …

From experimental archaeology to laboratory: Mineralogical nature and elemental composition of medieval manufactured vitriols

C Vuillard, M Radepont, F Téreygeol… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Metal sulphates easily form solid solutions in which a single crystalline lattice may
incorporate different metals in various proportions. These mineralogical phases have been …