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So you want to do biocodicology? A field guide to the biological analysis of parchment

Fiddyment, Sarah, Teasdale, Matthew D., Vnouček, Jiří, Lévêque, Élodie, Binois, Annelise, Collins, Matthew J.·2019·Heritage Science
DOI 10.1186/s40494-019-0278-6
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Biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts, offers the possibility of interrogating manuscripts in novel ways. Exploring the biological data associated to parchment documents will add a deeper level of understanding and interpretation to these invaluable objects, revealing information about book production, livestock economies, handling, conservation and the historic use of the object. As biotechnological methods continue to improve we hope that biocodicology will become a highly relevant discipline in manuscript studies, contributing an additional perspective to the current scholarship. We hope that this review will act as a catalyst enabling further interactions between the heritage science community, manuscript scholars, curators and conservators.

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  • Parchments can be viewed as biomolecular archives with tight chronologies of animal use and geographic specificity.

    “Parchments, animal skins used for manuscript production until the invention and adoption of paper, can be viewed as biomolecular archives with tight chronologies of animal use and geographic specificity (99).”

    From Ancient protein analysis in archaeology (2021) · cites this paper as [99]

    The Introduction (page unavailable) describes parchment as holding biological information useful for studying livestock economies, supporting the biomolecular-archive point. The Conclusions (page unavailable) say manuscript dates often have only a date range and current genetic methods cannot provide precise dating. The passages do not establish the claimed tight chronologies or geographic specificity. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Fiddyment, S., Teasdale, M. D., Vnouček, J., Lévêque, É., Binois, A., & Collins, M. J.
ORCID
Fiddyment, Sarah
Venue
Heritage Science
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2019-06-07
Volume
7
Issue
1
ISSN
2050-7445
DOI
10.1186/s40494-019-0278-6
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55
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  • H2020 European Research Council (787282-B2C, 295729)
  • H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (747424)
  • FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (299101)

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