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

The ubiquitous rusty browns (and paper damage) of manuscripts written in iron gall ink make it one of the most recognizable inks in the world. At its most basic recipe — the earliest of which is ...

But the museum's Keeper of Manuscripts thought the handwriting ... The experts found no trace of the iron-gall ink used in the two books with which it had been bound, and they couldn't identify ...

Iron-gall ink was used by the Romans and produces the characteristic black familiar on manuscripts dating back hundreds of years. It was favoured over carbon-based inks because it would "bite ...

Voynich bought the manuscript, and it wasn’t long before ... and have shown that its scribes used iron gall ink to write the text and minerals to create its pigments, consistent with materials ...

because iron-gall inks go onto the page pale, then darken. This is not what’s happening, physically, but it makes sense as a metaphor: a medieval manuscript, because it was made by hand ...

The research was presented at the British Association science festival. Iron gall ink, which is made from oak apples, has been in use from the 12th Century, but causes parchment to deteriorate ...

adding to the manuscript’s overall mystery. The Voynich Text Inside the tome are innumerable lines of looping text, inked in iron-gall ink — a medium typical of the Middle Ages. Scribbled in a strange ...

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, ...