Composition Analysis of Writing Materials in Cairo Genizah Documents

Zina Cohen holds a joint PhD (2020) in archaeometry from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, laboratory Saprat and the University of Hamburg. She specialises in the analysis of writing materials to better understand their use during the Middle Ages. Her current work focuses on the analysis of inks and pigments used in a corpus of monastic manuscripts as part of the Coenotur project.

• AcknowledgementList of FiguresList of TablesAbbreviationsRésumé [Francais]Kurzfassung [Deutsch]Introduction1 The Cairo Genizah1 Historical Background2 Presentation of the Corpus2 Writing Materials1 Writing Surfaces2 Writing Inks3 Experimental Methods1 Experimental Protocol4 Results and Discussion1 Use of Writing Surfaces2 Ink Typology3 Elemental Composition of the Inks and Writing Surfaces within the General Dataset4 Conclusion of the Chapter5 Implications of This Research, Conclusions and Outlook1 Inks Detected on Jewish Legal Documents2 Arabic Documents3 Religious Documents4 Autographs of Maimonides5 Conclusions and OutlookDocuments StudiedBibliographyIndex