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Proceedings of the
'Second International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis'
at the University of Hamburg,
SFB 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' –
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 29 February to 2 March 2016.
Edited by Christian Brockmann, Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner,
Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl
Editorial2
by Christian Brockmann, Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl
Articles
Hard Science and History3
by Marina Bicchieri
Ink Study of Herculaneum Papyri17
by Ana S. Leal, Silvia Romano, and Vito Mocella
The ‘Decorative Style’ Group of Byzantine Manuscripts Seen with Different Eyes:
Initial Explorations, Further Thoughts, Implications and New Avenues for Research21
by Marina Toumpouri
The Quest for the Mixed Inks41
by Claudia Colini, Oliver Hahn, Olivier Bonnerot, Simon Steger, Zina Cohen, Tea Ghigo, Thomas Christiansen, Marina Bicchieri, Paola Biocca, Myriam Krutzsch, and Ira Rabin
Ignatius of Loyola’s Exercitia Spiritualia: Spectroscopic Monitoring and Nanomaterials for an Integrated Conservation Methodology on Ink-degraded Manuscripts49
by Melania Zanetti, Alfonso Zoleo, Luca Nodari, and Maddalena Bronzato
Image Processing Software for the Recovery of Erased or Damaged Text63
by Keith T. Knox
High Performance Software in Multidimensional Reduction Methods for Image Processing with Application to Ancient Manuscripts73
by Corneliu T. C. Arsene, Stephen Church, and Mark Dickinson
Three Complementary Non-invasive Methods Applied to Historical Manuscripts97
by Bernadette Frühmann, Federica Cappa, Wilfried Vetter, and Manfred Schreiner
Palaeography and X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Manuscript Production and
Censorship of the Fifteenth Century German Manuscript,
State and University Library Hamburg, Cod. germ. 1109
by Marco Heiles, Ira Rabin, and Oliver Hahn
Advanced Codicological Studies of Cod. germ. 6: Part 2
(Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)133
by Mirjam Geissbühler, Georg Dietz, Oliver Hahn, and Ira Rabin
The Atri Fragment Revisited I: Multispectral Imaging and Ink Identification141
by Sebastian Bosch, Claudia Colini, Oliver Hahn, Andreas Janke, and Ivan Shevchuk
An Attempt at a Systematic Study of Inks from Coptic Manuscripts157
by Tea Ghigo, Olivier Bonnerot, Paola Buzi, Myriam Krutzsch, Oliver Hahn, and Ira Rabin
Contributors165