Manuscript colourations reveal the true and the false

The lecture attracted people interested in manuscripts from several Arab countries.

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Under the title “Manuscript inks and colourants: their types and components,” last Thursday, the Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage organized a virtual lecture.

The lecture presented by a member of the faculty at the Faculty of Tourism and Archeology at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia and Professor at the Faculty of Archeology at Cairo University, Dr. Abdul Latif Hassan Effendi, attracted a number of specialists and those interested in manuscripts from several Arab countries.

The lecturer began by talking about the material and textual structure of the manuscript and the most important ancient writing vessels, such as papyrus, parchment and paper, and the problem of the terms ink and ink.

He dealt with the colors of black manuscripts, the definition of colored materials, and dyes, and he reviewed the most important black inks and colors such as carbon ink, mixed ink, and metallic ink, and showed the composition of each ink, its advantages and disadvantages, and mentioned some of the approved recipes for preparing inks, including the secret inks and stamp inks.

The lecturer touched on methods of examining and analyzing manuscript inks and colourants, the most important of which is chromatographic analysis, noting the importance of inks and colourants in rooting manuscripts and detecting their forgery.

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