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Matthew supports a team of postdoctoral and PhD students who are exploring the potential of parchment as a biomolecular archive. His background is almost as mixed as his research team, starting as a marine zoologist, followed by a Geology PhD at (Glasgow), postdoctoral positions in biochemistry and chemistry labs and a stint lecturing in environmental geochemistry before settling down as an archaeologist.
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Sarah Fiddyment, Matthew D. Teasdale, Jiří Vnouček, Élodie Lévêque, Annelise Binois & Matthew J. Collins
So you want to do biocodicology? A field guide to the biological analysis of parchment
Biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts, ofers the possibility of interrogating manuscripts in novel ways. Exploring the biological data associated to parchment documents will add a deeper level of understanding and interpretation to these invaluable objects, revealing information about book production, livestock economies, handling, conservation and the historic use of the object. As biotechnological methods continue to improve we hope that biocodicology will become a highly relevant discipline in manuscript studies, contributing an additional perspective to the current scholarship. We hope that this review will act as a catalyst enabling further interactions between the heritage science community, manuscript scholars, curators and conservators.