Ancient Parchment Examination by Surface Investigation Methods
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1Department of Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/3, Milano, I-20133, Italy
Abstract:
A restoring process was set up to restore flexibility, size, and shape in naturally aged or fire-damaged parchments of old manuscripts. Validation of such a process requires the measurement of intrinsic parchment properties and comparison of them before and after the treatment. To this aim, we investigated morphological, mechanical, and surface physico-chemical properties of parchment by taking SEM pictures and characterizing small samples by microindentation, mercury porosimetry, and water vapor adsorption/desorption isotherms. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
