medieval Arabic paper
Egypt
Source: Cohen, Z. (2022). Writing Materials. In: Cohen, Z. (Ed.), Inks and Inkmaking in the Cairo Genizah. Brill.
Recipe Details
Evidence
"heterogeneous distribution of elements such as Ca and Fe is more characteristic for medieval Arabic paper, and this reduces the evaluation of our analyses to a semi-quantitative one."
Remarks
The study notes that the presence of calcium (Ca) and iron (Fe) within the paper support itself can contaminate the readings of the ink during XRF scans. It is necessary to measure the contribution of the support without ink to subtract it from the inked area data (p. 63). The paper used in the Genizah corpus is generally identified as medieval Arabic paper (p. 63).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionCa, Fe
Analytical Techniques
XRF
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typemedieval Arabic paper
RegionEgypt
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