2026-05-18 ノースカロライナ州立大学
Photo credit: Nash Dunn, NC State University.
＜関連情報＞
- https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/05/genetic-analysis-parchments/
- https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/990234
動物アーカイブでの冒険：羊皮紙写本の遺伝子解析のための新しい技術 Adventures in the Animal Archive:New Techniques for the Genetic Analysis of Parchment Manuscripts
Timothy L. Stinson, Melissa K. R. Scheible, Rachael Thomas, Nicholas E. Wagner, Matthew Breen, Benjamin J. Callahan, and Kelly Meiklejohn
Manuscript Studies Published: May 14
Abstract
This article reports the findings of a recent interdisciplinary project to extract and analyze the genetic information contained in parchment manuscripts. We discuss the genetic analysis of ninety-one parchment manuscripts held by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Manuscripts tested ranged in date from the eighth through the twentieth centuries and originated in a wide geographical area spanning England, much of Europe, the Middle East, and northeast Africa. The article comprises an overview of the project and its aims, a description of methods and outcomes, and a discussion of the implications and promises of such research for a variety of humanistic and scientific fields.
