Poisonous books: analyses of four sixteenth and seventeenth century book bindings covered with arsenic rich green paint

Poisonous books: analyses of four sixteenth and seventeenth century book bindings covered with arsenic rich green paint

Abstract Efforts to read medieval manuscript waste recycled as bookbinding material in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have resulted in the chemical analysis of four books housed at the University Library of Southern Denmark and the Smithsonian Libraries in Washington DC. Four green coloured...

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Main Authors: Thomas Delbey, Jakob Povl Holck, Bjarke Jørgensen, Alexandra Alvis, Vanessa Haight Smith, Gwénaëlle M. Kavich, Kimberly A. Harmon, Bertil Fabricius Dorch, Kaare Lund Rasmussen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-11-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Rare books
Arsenic
Bookbinding
Handling of hazardous material
MS
LA-ICP-MS
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0334-2

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