1.1 Presentation of the scribes investigated in the project, with the dates of their leadership 23
1.2 Presentation of the number of documents in the corpus, according to their type 27
2.1 Summary of the analytical observations conducted on Hebrew documents 48
2.2 Manuscripts containing ink recipes that have been found in the Genizah, together with their description 49
2.3 Examples of extant recipes and the corresponding analytical results 51
4.1 Documents sorted according to the type of composition and writing surface 70
4.2 Comparison of the distribution of the writing surface type depending on the community 72
4.3 Comparison of the distribution of the type of writing support depending on the scribe 74
4.4 Distribution of the types of ink according to their purpose in the documents 79
4.5 Distribution of the type of ink depending on the type of support 81
4.6 Comparison of the distribution of ink types depending on the type of document 84
4.7 Comparison of the distribution of the ink types depending on the community 86
4.8 Comparison of the distribution of the ink types depending on the scribes 89
4.9 Distribution of the ink type 99
4.10 Distribution of detected mixed inks in the corpus 115
4.11 Description of the results obtained through reflectography and XRF analyses on manuscript T-S 13J1.9 116
4.12 List of the manuscripts and the occurrences where probable plant ink has been detected 120
4.13 List of the manuscripts and the occurrences where no fingerprint could be obtained 125
5.1 Distribution of the type of ink depending on the type of support, in Arabic documents 141
5.2 List of official documents in the corpus 150
5.3 List of the scrolls studied during this project 152
5.4 Ink characterisation of Maimonides’ autographs 166