La Biblioteca de las tintas

* La bibliografía y webgrafía recogida a continuación está en un continuo proceso de ampliación

Webgrafía:

Replicación de una tinta dorada del Kitāb al-iṣāba fī lawāzim al-kitāba (MS Berlin Sprenger 1918) (AlchemEast Project)

Replicación de tintas invisibles descritas en fuentes del mundo antiguo (AlchemEast Project)

Mensajes secretos escritos en huevos: análisis y replicación de recetas (Autor: Sean Coughlin)

Guía práctica para la replicación de pigmentos históricos de color negro: análisis y replicación de recetas (Autora: Birgit Reissland)

Estudios específicos y volúmenes monográficos:

Boulboullé, Jenny and Sven Dupré (eds.). 2022. Burgundian Black: Reworking Early Modern Colour Technologies. Santa Barbara: EMC Imprint, https://doi.org/10.55239/bb001 [publicación digital con contenido multimedia]

Fani, Sara 2023. Prendi, aggiungi, mescola e scrivi. Ricettari arabi sulla preparazione di inchiostri. Bologna: Editrice Bibliografica

Raggetti, Lucia (ed.). 2021. Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication. Leiden: Brill.

Trost, V. 1991. Gold- und Silbertinten: technologische Untersuchungen zur abendländischen Chrysographie und Argyrographie von der Spätantike bis zum hohen Mittelalter.  Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag.

Zerdoun Bat-Yehuda, Monique. 1983. Les Encres noires au Moyen-Âge (jusqu’à 1600). Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Artículos:

Alexander, S. M. 1964. “Medieval recipes describing the use of metals in manuscripts”. Marsyas 12: 34–51

Berkes, L., Nehring, G. , Bonnerot, O. , Krutzsch, M., Rabin, I. and Richter,T. S. 2023. “Mixed Inks in Two Coptic Documents from the Hermopolite Region Relating to Lease Business”, Pylon, vol. 3.

Blanco Cesteros, Miriam. 2021. “Written in Blood? Decoding the red inks of Greek magical papyri”, en Raggetti, Lucia (ed.), Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication. Leiden: Brill, 33-56.

Brun, Emmanuel et al. 2016. “Revealing metallic ink in Herculaneum papyri”. PNAS 113 (14): 3751-3754.

Christiansen, Thomas. 2017. “Manufacture of Black Ink in the Ancient Mediterranean”. BASP 54: 167-195.

Christiansen, Thomas et al. 2020. “Insights into the composition of ancient Egyptian red and black inks on papyri achieved by synchrotron-based microanalyses”. PNAS 117 (45): 27825-27835.

Colini, Claudia et al. 2018. “The quest for the mixed inks”. MC 11: 41-49.

Colini, Claudia. 2021. “ ‘I tried it and it is really good’: Replicating Recipes of Arabic Black Inks”, en Raggetti 2021, 131-153.

Coughlin, Sean. 2025. “Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine.” In Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond, edited by George Kazantzidis and Chiara Thumiger, 215-245. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Damiani, Vincenzo. 2021. “Ink in Herculaneum: A Survey of Recent Perspectives”, en Raggetti 2021, 57-69.

Delange, E. et al. 1990. “Apparition de l’encre métallo- gallique a partir de la collection de papyrus du Louvre”, Revue d’Egypt 41: 213- 217.

Díaz Hidalgo, Rafael J. et al. 2018. “New insights into iron-gall inks through the use of historically accurate reconstructions”. Herit Sci 6: 1-15.

Ghigo, Tea; Rabin, Ira & Buzi Paola.  2020. “Black Egyptian inks in Late Antiquity: new insights on their manufacture and use”. Archaeol Anthropol Sci. 12: 70.

Ghigo, Tea & Albarrán Martínez, María Jesús. 2022. “The Practice of Writing inside an Egyptian Monastic Settlement: Preliminary Material Characterisation of the Inks Used on Coptic Manuscripts from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit”. Herit Sci 9: 62.

Levey, Martin. 1978. “Some Black Inks in Early Mediaeval Jewish Literature”, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 9: 27–31.

Marganne, Marie-Hélène. 2023. “Les recettes d’encre rouge dans les papyrus magiques grecs”, Papyrologica Lupiensia 30-31 [2021/22]: 327–348

Martelli, Matteo. 2021. “ ‘Alchemical’ Inks in the Syriac Tradition”, en Raggetti 2021, 79-104.

Nir-El, Yoram & Broshi, Magen. 1996. “The black ink of the Qumran scrolls”. Dead Sea Discoveries 3: 157-167.

Rabin, Ira. 2017. “Building a bridge from the Dead Sea scrolls to mediaeval Hebrew Manuscripts”, en Wandrey, Irina (ed.). 2017. Jewish manuscript cultures new perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter, 310–322.

Rabin, Ira. 2021. “Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks”, en Raggetti 2021, 70-78.

Raggetti, Lucia. 2024. “Stolen Horses and Scented Garments: Vegetal and Mineral Yellow in Arabic Technical Literature.” Ambix 71 (1): 35–72

Richter, T.S. 2023. “Magische Schreibflüssigkeiten zwischen Philologie, Lexikographie und Verfahrenstechnik. Kufische Tinte in P.Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682, safranhaltige Amulett-Tinte in P.Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685”, en Berkes, L., Claytor, W. Graham, Nowak, M. (eds.), Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 157-174.