Introduction / Lucia Raggetti -- WoW! Writing on Wax in Ancient Mesopotamia and Today: Questions and Results from an Interdisciplinary Project / Katja Weirauch and Michele Cammarosano -- Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri / Miriam Blanco Cesteros -- Ink in Herculaneum: A Survey of Recent Perspectives / Vincenzo Damiani -- Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks / Ira Rabin -- 'Alchemical' Inks in the Syriac Tradition / Matteo Martelli -- The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making / Sara Fani -- "I tried it and it is really good" Replicating Recipes of Arabic Black Inks / Claudia Colini -- Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-'Iraqi's'Uyun al-hĐaqa'iq / Lucia Raggetti.
Summary:
"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results can be achieved thanks to the close collaboration between philologists and scientists. Replication represents a crucial meeting point between these two parties: a properly edited text informs the experts in the laboratory who, in turn, may shed light on many aspects of the text by recreating the material reality behind it. Contributors are: Miriam Blanco Cesteros, Michele Cammarosano, Claudia Colini, Vincenzo Damiani, Sara Fani, Matteo Martelli, Ira Rabin, Lucia Raggetti, and Katja Weirauch"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Nuncius series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 7
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.