New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

The Morgan’s team of experts examined the manuscript under infrared and ultraviolet light to check for damage and alterations. They determined the piece was written on machine-made wove paper with ...

The manuscript contains a passage from an early ... based "lampblack" ink - rather than the more commonly used "iron-gall ink", derived from oak galls. Lastly, Professor Tether said: "The reason ...

When they dry, letters become invisible, but if ‘flower of copper’ (or iron) is ground in water like black (ink) and a sponge is filled with water, when (the letters) are moistened with the sponge, ...

and will be marked by "the invisible ink sent between lovers, the iron gall ink used by Chaucer and still hand-made today, the ink replaced with an explosive device for James Bond’s Parker pen i ...

"This collaboration with QNL will help our scientists understand the degradation mechanisms of iron-gall ink and develop methodologies to slow this degradation, which will help preserve these valuable ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Alice Springs to Darwin railway operator Aurizon has signed a 30-month contract to freight iron ore from the Frances Creek mine to Port Darwin.

“Both are iron gall ink with very small differences in composition ... “Today this type of work exists only on manuscripts in good [readable] condition in order to make automatic ...

Medieval manuscripts are usually made of parchment and bound in leather-covered boards. The ink is usually iron gall. These are amazingly durable materials, but they have their limits. Ink fades ...