- Provisional identification of the ink and pigments was based on visual appearance under the microscope and the presence of certain elements as determined by XRF: iron for irongall, mercury for cinnabar or vermilion, arsenic for orpiment or realgar. Definitive identification would have required sampling which was not deemed necessary
- Fish ‘skin’ is a collagenous membrane taken from the swim bladders of certain species of large fish. Another material that may be used as a substitute is goldbeater's skin, a transparent membrane derived from cow intestine
- Foskett , Sarah . 1994 . “ ‘An investigation into the properties of isinglass ” . In SSCR Journal 5.4 – 14 . 11
- Banik , G. and Weber , H. , eds. 1999 . “ Tintenfrassschaden und ihre Behandlung, Landesarchiv Baden-Wurtemberg, Werkhefte, Serie A, Heft 10 ” . Stuttgart : Kohlhammer Verlag . See: Krekel, Christoph, ‘Chemische Struktur historischer Eisengaullustinten’.,(25–36;Reissland, Birgit, ‘Ink corrosion: Aqueous and non-aqueous treatment of paper objects—State of the art’, Restaurator 20 (1999): 167–180; Reissland, Birgit and Susan de Groot, ‘Ink corrosion: Comparison of currently used aqueous treatments for paper objects’, IADA Preprints: Ninth International Congress, Copenhagen 1999, 121–129
- Zebala , A. 1994 . “ ‘Sturgeon glue for consolidation ” . In WAAC Newsletter 16.3 12
- 1996 . The Book and Paper Group Annual 25 – 26 . Washington DC : American Institute for Conservation . For further information, see: Brückle, Irene, ‘Remoistenable lining with methyl cellulose adhesive preparation’. Wagner, Sarah S., ‘Remoistenable tissue. Part II: Variations on a theme’, The Book and Paper Group Annual (Washington DC: American Institute for Conservation, 1996) 27–28; Anderson, P., Quandt, A., O'Loughlin, E. and P. Hepworth, ‘Recent developments in the conservation of Islamic manuscripts’, Works of Art on Paper: Book, Documents and Photographs, Techniques and Conservation: Summaries of the Posters at the Baltimore Congress, 2–6 September 2002 (London: International Institute of Conservation, 2002); Quandt, A, ‘Recent developments in the conservation of parchment manuscripts’, The Book and Paper Group Annual (Washington DC American Institute of Conservation, 1996) 117–118
- The photography was done with a Sinar HR23 in four-quadrant macroscan mode, using a 100mm Sinaron HR lens set at f-11. The resultant file is 224 megabytes in 8-bit mode. It could be described as 9900 × 7900pixels, or 67 × 84cm at 300dpi
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