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Joel Kovarsky wrote:
David Bradbury wrote:
Because the "ink" of the Vinland Map behaves more like a paint,
sitting on top of the parchment, chemicals in the parchment should
be of very limited significance when analysing the ink.
Given the corrosive nature of some iron gall inks--whose recipes
varied widely--, they are hardly inert substances sitting on top of
the writing surface, although this may not be of any use in terms of
the determining the authenticity of the map itself (recognizing that
this abstract is not dealing specifically with parchment):
But (and it's a very very big But) the "ink" of the Vinland Map was
shown by the first scientists permitted to study the map- the British
Museum investigators in 1967, well over a year after after the official
book about it was published- to be neither iron-gall nor any other
formulation they had ever seen.
David Bradbury
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