TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Kindzorra, Emanuel A1 - Rabin, Ira T1 - The study of manuscripts: a natural scientist's approach JF - Manuscript cultures N2 - The analysis of physical and chemical properties of artefacts provides important data for answering questions that cannot be solved by historical and philological methods alone. In its individual materiality, each manuscript is the result of various influences (e.g. production, storage, restoration, preservation). Given the recent technological developments (e.g. miniaturization of structural units, enlargement of memory capacity), technical diagnostics of art and cultural objects are becoming increasingly sought after in trans-disciplinary research. In this review we present a multi-instrumental approach to the investigation of manuscripts. Several case studies will illuminate our methodology. KW - Writing materials KW - NDT KW - Multi-instrumental-approach PY - 2015 SN - 1867-9617 VL - 5 IS - 2012/2013 SP - 103 EP - 115 PB - Univ., SFB 950 CY - Hamburg AN - OPUS4-32591 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -