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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
AKBP 7: Applied Physics with Accelerators
AKBP 7.6: Talk
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 10:45–11:00, E 020
Multiscale material characterization of palm-leaf manuscripts using SAXS and WAXS — •Laura Gallardo1,2, Giovanni Ciotti2,3, Mark Busch1, Richard Kohns1, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny2, Sylvio Haas2,4, and Patrick Huber1,4,5 — 1Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics, Hamburg University of Technology — 2Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Hamburg University — 3Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna — 4Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY — 5Institute of Surface Science, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Palm-leaf has been a very important material for the production of manuscripts in South, Central and South East Asia. In spite of the large collections preserved throughout the world, a classification of these manuscripts is only possible according to their language or their content, where the origin of the manuscripts is rarely known. This tradition has almost disappeared with the exception of a few monasteries and workshops for tourist handicrafts, where they still produce this writing support. Recent efforts have been made to document the manufacture process of the palm-leaves, finding crucial differences between the different monasteries that may help to identify the origin of the palm-leaf manuscripts (PLM) inherited from the past. In this study, we use Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS and WAXS) to analyze the structural differences and similarities of palm-leaves in different stages of preparation and PLM. We aim to understand the physical changes of the leaves during the preparation process and to identify the similarities with unclassified PLM.
Keywords: cultural heritage; SAXS; WAXS; manuscript; biological materials