Medieval manuscripts

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Forman s distrust of women was coupled with an interest in female physiology and morbidity. FFe repeated the humanist account of the model of the womb and ovaries as an inversion of the penis and testes and he was particularly concerned with the womb as a seat of disease. 1° For instance, in a transcription of a medieval manuscript describing the life of Adam and Eve, Forman inserted a list of diseases from which humankind would suffer after the Fall. Because Eve harkened the serpent , women suffered more than seventy diseases specific to their sex, though Forman only recorded fourteen of these. These all related to the womb or the breasts, and were conditions that Forman encountered amongst his patients. ... 

Raman Spectroscopy Detecting forged medieval manuscripts (Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 3658-3661. "Analysis of Pigmentary Materials on the Vinland Map and Tartar Relation by Raman Microprobe Spectroscopy")... 

Applications of Infrared Microspectroscopy to Art Historical Questions about Medieval Manuscripts... 

Orna, Mary Virginia. Patricia L. Lang, J.E. Katon, Thomas F. Mathews, and Robert S. Nelson. 1989. Applications of infrared microspectroscopy to art historical questions about medieval manuscripts. In Archaeological Chemistry IV, R.O. Allen (ed.). pp. 3-18, 196-210. Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society. 

MacKinney, Loren C. 1965, Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. 

For wider discussions of inorganic pigments, see R.J.H. Clark (1995) Chemical Society Reviews, vol. 24, p. 187 - Raman microscopy Application to the identification of pigments on medieval manuscripts R.J.H. Clark and P.J. Gibbs (1997) Chemical Communications, p. 1003 - Identification of leadfll) sulfide and pararealgar on a 13 th century manuscript by Raman microscopy . 

Clark RJH (1998) An arts/science interface medieval manuscripts pigments and spectroscopy. Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 69. 

Illustrations in medieval manuscripts used natural pigments from plants, animals and minerals. 

Tables 1-8 are reproduced with some modifications on medieval manuscripts, Chemical Reviews, 187-...

Most pigments in medieval manuscript illuminations are inorganic. They are coated with a small quantity of binding material and deposited on parchment that has previously been rubbed with pumice. The small size of the illuminations limits the number of spectroscopic samplings. 

Figure 9 Raman spectra of the historiated letter T from the Book of Genesis, Lucka Bible, from which the data and identification of the mineral pigments in Table 9 have been derived. Reproduced with permission of Clark RJH, Raman microscopy application to the identification of pigments on medieval manuscripts. Chemical Reviews, 187-196 1995, The Royal Society of Chemistry.

One project dealing with medieval manuscripts has had as its objective the application of small-particle-analysis techniques to the study of pigments in medieval Armenian and Byzantine manuscripts. At the University of Chicago, 10 decorated manuscripts were sampled (Table 10). These manuscripts represent a broad chronological span ranging from the tenth century to the post-Byzantine era (sixteenth century or later). 

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