questions to ask about stain science - labeculae vivae - Library of Stains

[Steven Avery]

Do uneven colours within a page, and from page to page, indicate deliberate staining?

How can we determine if stains are accidental, or forgery-related to make a manuscript "yellow with age"

Can we utilize stained manuscripts, like the tobacco-water stains of Simonides as exemplars

If a manuscript is split in two places, can the fact that one is essentially unstained and the other is heavily stained, be a marker for tampering?

Who does any ongoing research in these areas?

Why are stains virtually ignored .. e.g. in the Sinaiticus science?

 

[Steven Avery]

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Question for our researchers.

When will any manuscript stain experts start examining the Codex Sinaiticus?

This could begin with the superb digitization of the Codex Sinaiticus Project. Later, there could be scientific direct manuscript examination.

The 1844 Leipzig pages are a uniform light colour, “notable for their whiteness” (Gavin Moorhead) and unstained.

The 1859 London pages are uneven colour, within pages and page-to-page, with heavy staining.

Note: there were clear accusations in 1862-63 that the 1859 pages were deliberately stained to make them appear yellow with age. Yet this was never studied, the manuscript sections were inaccessible.

Today is different, what a fantabulous study manuscript!

Plus there is a special washed-out page from Judith located in Russia that was under wraps into the 1900s! Was it a colouring test page? A potential palimpsest?

Your thoughts?

Thanks!

Steven

 

[Steven Avery]

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