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How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report

• Claudia Colini

  Claudia Colini is junior professor in Archaeometry at the Institute for Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean and head of the Mobile Lab of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at Universität Hamburg. She has a background in archaeometry and book conservation and is specialised in Islamic manuscripts and their materials. Her current research projects focus on the coexistence of different writing supports, inks, and colours in the early centuries of Islamic Egypt.

  , Giuseppe Marotta

  Giuseppe Marotta is a doctoral researcher in archaeometry at Universität Hamburg. He is member of the Mobile Lab of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’. He obtained his master’s degree in book, paper, and parchment conservation at the Istituto Centrale per la Patologia degli Archivi e del Libro in Rome. His current project focuses on the production, use, and material features of early Islamic manuscripts on parchment.

  , Sowmeya Sathiyamani

  Sowmeya Sathiyamani is a doctoral researcher at Universität Hamburg with a background in chemistry. Prior to starting her doctorate, she worked as project associate at the Indian Institute of Heritage, New Delhi, on a project involving an archaeometric study of the technology of pottery from the Early Harappan Period. Since 2022, she also has been a research associate at the CSMC, in the research project RFK 01, ‘The Scribe’s Choice: Writing Supports in Arabic Documents of the Early Islamic Centuries’.

  , Valentina Yañez Langner

  Valentina Yañez Langner is a cultural heritage conservator trained at the Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente in Jalisco, Mexico. She specialises in the conservation of graphic documents on paper and manuscripts. Her research and professional experience focus on the material study of illuminated manuscripts from Mexico’s colonial period. She attended the master’s programme at the CSMC.

  , Annie Muller

  Annie Muller was a graduate student in the CSMC master’s programme and wrote her thesis on the gendered role of textiles within medieval Western Christian manuscripts and contemporary artist books. Before that, she double-majored in art history and chemistry at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, US.

  , Katerina Grigoriadou

  Katerina Grigoriadou studied history and archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. She obtained a master’s degree in manuscript studies at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ of Universität Hamburg, specialising in the material analysis of medieval codices. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the same institution in the field of archaeometry. Her research focuses on the spectroscopic analysis of black inks and colourants from early Renaissance Greek manuscripts produced in Italy.

  und Chen Yu

  Chen Yu is a PhD student at the School of Information Resource Management at Renmin University of China, Beijing, and a visiting PhD student at the CSMC. She has a background in archaeology and archival science and is now specialising in the conservation and scientific analysis of works on paper and palm leaf manuscripts.