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luciabWell, now I really feel like a dunce. It finally dawned on me to work backwards-- to chain references. Duh. I immediately found an extremely detailed article on what iron gall ink does to parchment. Unfortunately, the title of the article begins is "Vibrational spectroscopy in the analysis of iron gall ink degradation of parchments." Oh, THIS is going to be a barrel of laughs. I'm printing it out now. It's 14 pages long. Whee.
Aaaaaannnnnnd.... I'm reading, I'm reading..... and I'm seeing very little I can use. "We analyzed them! And some of them are more damaged that others!" WTF? Granted, I don't understand much of this, but there isn't anything about correlations between materials they found (like alum) and damage. I can use some of the basic info, like the 3 kinds of damage the ink causes to parchment, but that's about it. And I was so excited. Man, I want to see a big old fat chart, showing the material of each manuscript, how old each one was, what materials they found in each one, how badly damaged each one was.... I don't get it. Now I"m seriously disappointed.
Aaaaaannnnnnd.... I'm reading, I'm reading..... and I'm seeing very little I can use. "We analyzed them! And some of them are more damaged that others!" WTF? Granted, I don't understand much of this, but there isn't anything about correlations between materials they found (like alum) and damage. I can use some of the basic info, like the 3 kinds of damage the ink causes to parchment, but that's about it. And I was so excited. Man, I want to see a big old fat chart, showing the material of each manuscript, how old each one was, what materials they found in each one, how badly damaged each one was.... I don't get it. Now I"m seriously disappointed.
