XRF (Elio: 40kV, 80 µA, spot measurements of 90s each) and  reflectography (DinoLite: x50 magnification, vis, NIR and UV light) analysis of inks from Vatican Library Ms Reg. Gr. 116.

The Organon manuscript Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Gr. 116 is a paper manuscript written by the end of the 13th century by at least 3 scribes. Over the following 150 years two readers heavily annotated that codicological unit: Sylvester Syropoulos and Philotheos of Selymbria.

Reg.gr.116_protocol.pdf - protocol
RegGr116_XRF.zip - complete XRF dataset
Report_RegGr116.docx - detailed report
VatReg116_reflectography.zip - complete reflectography dataset

The research for projects RFD07 and RFK02 was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.