Indajini non invasive per lo studio di coloranti e pigmenti nei manoscritti persiani

fact illustrated manuscripts depict the full image of the living conditions of people who lived in Islamic lands throughout history. Iran is one of the most important Islamic territories, which during history by having special geographic circumstances had been always a center for confrontation of different cultures. The traces of different cultures can be found properly by surveying the changes in the manuscripts of Persia. In this thesis, the nature of colors which is used in 13 manuscripts collected from the Islamic civilizations and belonged to the Museum of Oriental Art (MAO) in Turin, were studied with a special focus on Persian manuscripts. This study was accomplished by relying on non-destructive analysis including FORS, XRF and FOMF. To focus on the identification of dyes used in Persian manuscripts, standard samples of several dyes were prepared using traditional manufacturing of these dyes. The instructions for the manufacture of standard samples was adopted from historic books such as ¿Golestan-e hunar¿ and ¿The art of bibliopegy in Islamic civilization¿. Prepared standard samples were analyzed using FORS and FOMF methods. The results of analysis were collected as a database and in order to identify the dyes, they were compared with the results of analysis of the colors in manuscripts of this study. The results indicates the presence of pigments such as lapis lazuli, red ochre, gold, silver, white lead, vermilion, black carbon¿¿¿¿ and dyes such as saffron, cochineal, turmeric¿¿. in miniatures and illustrations of the these manuscripts