Chromatographic analysis of natural dyes in mediaeval Islamic paper

Ebeid, Hassan (author), Di Gianvincenzo, Fabiana (author), Kralj Cigić, Irena (author), Strlič, Matija (author)

Numerous natural dyes were used to dye mediaeval Islamic paper from the tenth to the nineteenth century, using a variety of techniques. The objective of this research is to develop an analytical method using high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC–DAD) to identify natural dyes in forty historical Islamic paper manuscripts from two collections. In addition, novel information was obtained from original treatises containing recipes for dyeing paper and the chronological use of dyes in dyeing mediaeval Islamic paper between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. The results show that thirty-four of the forty manuscripts examined contained dyes. Six natural dyes were detected, including henna, madder, lac, safflower, turmeric, and weld. This is the first study aimed at developing a method for determining various natural dyes in Islamic paper from a wide historical and geographical range in the mediaeval time and to fill significant gaps in the technical and historical knowledge of papermaking.

• Language: English
• Keywords: natural dyes, HPLC-DAD, dyeing, Islamic paper, quasi-Islamic paper
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FKKT - Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, art. 13
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155398
• UDC: 543.544.5HPLC
• ISSN on article: 2050-7445
• DOI: 10.1186/s40494-023-01117-w
• COBISS.SI-ID: 180592387
• Publication date in RUL: 29.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Heritage science
• Shortened title: Herit. sci.
• Publisher: SpringerOpen
• ISSN: 2050-7445
• COBISS.SI-ID: 36621317

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: naravna barvila, HPLC-DAD, barvanje, islamski papir, kvaziislamski papir