Spectroscopy and the Irish manuscript - Pádraig Ó Macháin

Spectroscopy and the Irish manuscript

The UCC-based Inks & Skins project explores the materiality of the Irish vellum manuscript from the sixth century to the sixteenth. It targets inks, pigments and different aspects of the generation and preparation of calfskin as a writing support. This paper will give an overview of the work to date, describing the methodologies employed and looking forward to progress in the future.

Pádraig Ó Macháin is Professor of Modern Irish at University College Cork and Principal Investigator for Inks & Skins, an interdisciplinary project dedicated to the investigation of the materiality of the late medieval Gaelic manuscript.

Traces: The Archaeology of Small Things
NATIONAL MONUMENTS SERVICE7th ANNUAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE
NATIONAL MONUMENTS SERVICE
7th ANNUAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE

12 October 2024
The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin.