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New Tool Detects Toxic Pigment in Books
June 30, 2025
A new tool developed by the University of St Andrews is helping institutions detect toxic pigments in historic books and making it easier to id
How Poisonous Books Are Being Detected
June 5, 2025
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
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