Traces of Ink

Experiences of Philology and Replication
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42111-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Nuncius Series

Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results can be achieved thanks to the close collaboration between philologists and scientists. Replication represents a crucial meeting point between these two parties: a properly edited text informs the experts in the laboratory who, in turn, may shed light on many aspects of the text by recreating the material reality behind it.

Contributors are: Miriam Blanco Cesteros, Michele Cammarosano, Claudia Colini, Vincenzo Damiani, Sara Fani, Matteo Martelli, Ira Rabin, Lucia Raggetti, and Katja Weirauch.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Raggetti, Lucia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Lucia Raggetti

1 WoW! Writing on Wax in Ancient Mesopotamia and Today: Questions and Results from an Interdisciplinary Project

Katja Weirauch and Michele Cammarosano

2 Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri

Miriam Blanco Cesteros

3 Ink in Herculaneum: A Survey of Recent Perspectives

Vincenzo Damiani

4 Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks

Ira Rabin

5 ‘Alchemical’ Inks in the Syriac Tradition

Matteo Martelli

6 The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making

Sara Fani

7 “I tried it and it is really good” Replicating Recipes of Arabic Black Inks

Claudia Colini

8 Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-'Iraqi’s 'Uyun al-haqa'iq

Lucia Raggetti

Index of Manuscripts

Index of Authors

Index of Sources

Index of Technical Terms

Über Autor(innen)

Lucia Raggetti is an Assistant Professor for the History of Ancient Sciences at the University of Bologna. After receiving her PhD in Arabo-Islamic studies in Naples, she held a DAAD Fellowship in Hamburg and then worked as research assistant at the Freie Unversität Berlin, in the research group on Wissensgeschichte (History of Knowledge). Her main research interests are Arabic philology and the history of natural sciences and medicine in the Arabo-Islamic milieu, on which she has published a variety of articles. She is author of 'Isa ibn 'Ali’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, Translation and Study of a Fluid Tradition (de Gruyter, 2018).