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 Vat. Gr. 1777.

The Organon manuscript Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Gr. 1777 is a paper manuscript written around 1442 by Theodore Agallianos. Vat. Gr. 1777 consists in ten quires (numbers 2-11) of a larger manuscript that was dismembered after soon after around 1470. Other portions of that dismembered unit are preserved today in Leipzig, Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig Ms. Rep. I 68a, 1-30 and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 1919, ff. 124-163.

Report_VatGr1777.docx - detailed report
Vat.gr.1777_protocol.pdf - protocol
VatGr1777_reflectography.zip - complete reflectography dataset
VatGr1777_XRF.zip - complete XRF 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.