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| Title: | Purple Biodeterioration in Parchment: a Case in the Alcobacense Collection |
| Authors: | Pinheiro, C
Miller, A
Bhattacharya, S
Vaz, P
Caldeira, A Teresa
Casanova, C |
| Editors: | Barreira, C
Casanova, C
Andrade, M |
| Keywords: | biodeterioration
purple stains |
| Issue Date: | 2024 |
| Publisher: | Trivent publishing |
| Citation: | Pinheiro C, Miller A, Bhattacharya S, Vaz P, Caldeira A T, Casanova C (2024). Purple Biodeterioration in Parchment: a Case in the Alcobacense Collection, pp347-265. In Cistercian Horizons: Collected ESSAYS, Mediterranean Studies in Late Antiquity and the Middle Age, vol 3-Edited by Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Conceição Casanova, Maria Filomena Andrade. eISBN 978-615-6696-36-6 and ISSN2935-5615, Trivent publishing, Budapest, Hungary, 2024 |
| Abstract: | The understanding of purple biodeterioration, or the appearance of purple tinged stains in parchment, has seen a sharp evolution in the last few years. Modern molecular analysis of the DNA, using Next-Generation Sequencing, have made it possible to hypothesize a chain of events triggered by the presence of Archaeobacteria in the parchment, a succession theory that builds on the presence of complex biological communities to explain the appearance of such stains. A few of the codices in the Alcobacense collection display such a disease – termed measles – and this paper tells of the results obtained after the analysis performed on one of them, Alcobacense 338. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38775 |
| ISSN: | ISSN2935-5615 |
| Type: | bookPart |
| Appears in Collections: | CI-UM - Publicações - Capítulos de Livros
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