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New Tool Detects Toxic Pigment in Books
June 30, 2025
A new tool developed by the University of St Andrews is helping institutions detect toxic pigments in historic books and making it easier to id
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June 5, 2025
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
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