A biological reading of a palimpsest
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A biological reading of a palimpsest. / Viñas-Caron, Laura C.; Palomo, Ismael Rodríguez; Fazlic, Natasha; Vnouček, Jiří; Driscoll, Matthew; Fiddyment, Sarah; Collins, Matthew J.
I: iScience, Bind 26, Nr. 6, 106786, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - A biological reading of a palimpsest
AU - Viñas-Caron, Laura C.
AU - Palomo, Ismael Rodríguez
AU - Fazlic, Natasha
AU - Vnouček, Jiří
AU - Driscoll, Matthew
AU - Fiddyment, Sarah
AU - Collins, Matthew J.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the Middle Ages, texts were recorded and preserved on parchment, an animal-derived material. When this resource was scarce, older manuscripts were some-times recycled to write new manuscripts. In the process, the ancient text waserased, creating what is known as a palimpsest. Here, we explore the potentialof peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF), widely applied to identify species, tohelp reconnect the dispersed leaves of a manuscript and reveal differences inparchment manufacturing. In combination with visual methods, we analyzed awhole palimpsest, the codex AM 795 4to from the Arnamagnæan Collection (Co-penhagen, Denmark). We find that both sheep and goat skins were used in thismanuscript, and that parchment differed in quality. Notably, the PMF analysisdistinguished five groups of folios which match the visual groupings. We concludethat this detailed interrogation of a single mass spectrum can be a promising toolto understand how palimpsest manuscripts were constructed.
AB - In the Middle Ages, texts were recorded and preserved on parchment, an animal-derived material. When this resource was scarce, older manuscripts were some-times recycled to write new manuscripts. In the process, the ancient text waserased, creating what is known as a palimpsest. Here, we explore the potentialof peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF), widely applied to identify species, tohelp reconnect the dispersed leaves of a manuscript and reveal differences inparchment manufacturing. In combination with visual methods, we analyzed awhole palimpsest, the codex AM 795 4to from the Arnamagnæan Collection (Co-penhagen, Denmark). We find that both sheep and goat skins were used in thismanuscript, and that parchment differed in quality. Notably, the PMF analysisdistinguished five groups of folios which match the visual groupings. We concludethat this detailed interrogation of a single mass spectrum can be a promising toolto understand how palimpsest manuscripts were constructed.
U2 - 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106786
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106786
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37213229
VL - 26
JO - iScience
JF - iScience
SN - 2589-0042
IS - 6
M1 - 106786
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