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The Montserrat codex miscellaneus (Inv. nos. 126‐178, 292, 338) and the composition of its inks
Date
2020
Author(s)
Ghigo, Tea
Torralas Tovar, Sofía
Abstract
The Montserrat Codex Miscellaneus (TM 59453/LDAB 552) has been the subject of numerous studies since the publication of its first text by its owner, father Ramon Roca-Puig. Scholars have dealt with the content of its texts, as well as interrogated its origin and materiality. It is a fourth-century papyrus single quire codex, which contains texts in both Latin and Greek. It has been argued that it belonged to the Bodmer library, connected to a Pachomian library in the Thebaid. In this paper we want to contribute to the material study of the codex by presenting the first results of an archaeometric analysis performed upon the inks. The analysis was carried out within the framework of the ‘PAThs’ project based at Sapienza University of Rome, and executed with the close cooperation of DVCTVS, a team of scholars who curate the Roca-Puig collection. The results obtained have not only cast light on the history of production of the codex, but also, and perhaps most importantly, point out that a meaningful interpretation of the analytical data is only possible through an interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and the natural sciences.
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Ghigo, Tea and Sofía Torallas Tovar, "The Montserrat codex miscellaneus (Inv. nos. 126‐178, 292, 338) and the composition of its inks," in P. Buzi (ed.), Coptic Literature in Context (4th-14th cent.): Cultural Landscape, Literary Production and Manuscript Archaeology. Proceedings of the third conference of the ERC project “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context (‘PAThs’)”, Roma, 2020, 101-114.
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Ghigo, Tea and Sofía Torallas Tovar, "The Montserrat codex miscellaneus (Inv. nos. 126‐178, 292, 338) and the composition of its inks," Roma, 2020, 101-114.
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