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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476892903321

Autore

Raggetti Lucia

Titolo

Traces of Ink : Experiences of Philology and Replication

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44480-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (202 p.)

Collana

Nuncius Series

Disciplina

681/.6

Soggetti

History of science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Lucia Raggetti -- WoW! Writing on Wax in Ancient Mesopotamia and Today: Questions and Results from an Interdisciplinary Project / Katja Weirauch and Michele Cammarosano -- Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri / Miriam Blanco Cesteros -- Ink in Herculaneum: A Survey of Recent Perspectives / Vincenzo Damiani -- Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks / Ira Rabin -- 'Alchemical' Inks in the Syriac Tradition / Matteo Martelli -- The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making / Sara Fani -- "I tried it and it is really good" Replicating Recipes of Arabic Black Inks / Claudia Colini -- Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-'Irāqī's'Uyūn al-ḥaqā'iq / Lucia Raggetti.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results can be achieved thanks to the close collaboration between philologists and scientists. Replication represents a crucial meeting point between these two parties: a properly edited text informs the experts in the laboratory who, in turn, may shed light on many aspects of the text by recreating the material reality behind it. Readership: Historians of premodern science,



philologists working on the Graeco-Roman, Syriac, and Arabic tradition, along with chemists and natural scientists, in particular those cooperating with humanists.