Re: VMs: Inks

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

At 11:36 23/07/2004 -0500, Mark wrote:
> So has a chemical analysis ever been done on any of the inks?

Not so far, but that may not actually be a bad thing - it's only with the 
advent of the sidfiles that we're perhaps starting to ask the right 
questions about what such an analysis might try to resolve.

> And if not, what are the odds of one being done if/when the MS is sent for 
> conservation?

Anything as powerful as Raman spectroscopy would seem unlikely ATM, but you 
never know. :-) Bear in mind that nobody wants to destroy any of it in the 
process...

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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