XRF (Elio: 40kV, 80 µA, spot measurements of 120s each) analysis of inks from Ms Pma5 / Medinet Madi Codex B (late 4th -5th century CE) from Dublin Chester Beatty Library (Ireland).
Analysis of the top folio, the manuscript is too degraded to analyse other folios (6 spots with visible ink + 6 spots with no visible ink)
Pma5.pptx - protocol and results
Pma5_XRF.zip - complete XRF Dataset
Pma5_XRFresults.xlsx - complete XRF results
MSI was also performed to recover damaged writing. Link to dataset is included in related identifier.
The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Cluster of Excellence «Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures». The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg in collaboration with the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM).