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The Book of Kells

Put your eye close to the glass and the most famous manuscript in the world turns out to be a book. The Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells, folio 34r,…

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Raman Spectroscopy and XRF Imaging of Biblical Parchments

Two analytical techniques — Raman spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence, known by their respective acronyms RS and XRF — have, over the past two decades, become principal instruments in the scientific study of…

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