Tereschenko, Elena Yu.; Balachenkova, Aleksandra P.; Tsypkin, Denis O. Methods of Natural Sciences in the Study of Dyes in Manuscripts (On the Example of Inks)

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Title Methods of Natural Sciences in the Study of Dyes in Manuscripts (On the Example of Inks)
Author email abalachenkova@mail.ru
About author Tereschenko, Elena Yu. — Ph.D., senior researcher. Federal Research Center Crystallography and Fotonics, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr., 1, 119333, Moscow, Russian Federation; head of the laboratory. National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, pl. Akademika Kurchatova, 1, 123182, Moscow, Russian Federation. elenatereschenko@yandex.ru ORCID: 0000-0001-5035-6978 Balachenkova, Aleksandra P. — head lecturer. St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, Ivana Tchernykh ul., 4, 1908095, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. abalachenkova@mail.ru ORCID: 0000-0001-9522-3087 Tsypkin, Denis O. — Ph.D., Director of Rare Collections. The National Library of Russia, Sadovaia ul., 18, 191069 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. tsypkin@nlr.ru ORCID: 0000-0002-8207-8551
In the section Interdisciplinary Methods in the Research on Cultural Heritage DOI10.18688/aa2212-08-56
Year 2022 Volume 12 Pages 705–714
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.023 Index BBK 85.103; 63.2
Abstract

The article discusses modern scientific methods used in the study of dyes (inks) used in historical manuscripts. Focusing on the necessity to research a large amount of manuscripts to obtain significant historical and technological information, the screening methods which give the integral characteristics of the handwritten monuments are the following: multispectral imaging for the analysis of the change in text absorption in different ranges of the optical spectrum, qualitative X-ray fluorescence analysis of the main elemental composition, and optical spectroscopy (IR and Raman). The article also describes the methods that make it possible to obtain more detailed in-depth information about the organic and inorganic components of the ink, which are currently at the stage of proving or test studies of both model samples and authentic manuscripts. These research techniques can be used for the elemental composition analysis (PIXE, ICP-AAS and ICP-MS), for the identification of organic components (methods of chromatography with mass spectrometry), for revealing the micro morphology of ink traces (electron microscopy), for the analysis of iron-containing chemical compounds (XAS), and for non-destructive imaging (X-ray / synchrotron tomography).

The article was prepared with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 22-18-00615) in terms of the analysis of methods used for screening studies of historical inks, and the thematic plan of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” in terms of the analysis of natural scientific methods potentially applicable to the study of inks.
Keywords
Reference Tereschenko, Elena Yu.; Balachenkova, Aleksandra P.; Tsypkin, Denis O. Methods of Natural Sciences in the Study of Dyes in Manuscripts (On the Example of Inks). Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 12. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2022, pp. 705–714. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2212-08-56
Publication Article language russian
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