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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): maXis
ORGANISM(S): Bos Taurus (bovine) Capra Hircus X Ovis Aries
TISSUE(S): Skin
SUBMITTER: Marc Dieu
LAB HEAD: DEPARIS Olivier
PROVIDER: PXD029196 | Pride | 2022-02-22
REPOSITORIES: Pride
Royal Society open science 20210602 6
Biocodicological analysis of parchments from manuscript books and archives offers unprecedented insight into the materiality of medieval literacy. Using ZooMS for animal species identification, we explored almost the entire library and all the preserved single leaf charters of a single medieval Cistercian monastery (Orval Abbey, Belgium). Systematic non-invasive sampling of parchment collagen was performed on every charter and on the first bifolium from every quire of the 118 codicological units ...[more]