manuscripts, parchment and papyrus, artificially coloured to be yellow with age

Steven Avery

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Mayer papyri and Uranios

the colour of the Mayer papyri - wholly different from that invariably found on genuine documents of the same professed age and character

The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime (2019) Malcolm Choat https://books.google.com/books?id=zZSfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA574 Again, it was noticed that the colour of the papyri was, with two or three exceptions, wholly different from that invariably found on genuine documents of the same professed age and...
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the colour of the papyri ... wholly different ... genuine documents ... strong probability ... purposely discoloured

When the manuscript is not named Sinaiticus, the experts do watch for purposeful discolouring. Elliott - p. 153-154 ... the Royal Society of Literature examined Simonides palimpsest of Uranius in February 1863. The previous month the Mayer manuscripts were reconsidered. ... it was noticed...
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Uranios?
 
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then smelt of them - moved

the smell of parchment as an indicator of age

It is said that English parchment has a smell of warm leather. Books produced before around 1850 have a very different smell from books that appeared after that date, whereas medieval manuscripts, created on animal skins, have a scent all their own. There is even a name for this smell –...
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tobacco water

tobacco water manuscripts of Simonides

https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/the-coincidence-seems-almost-more-singular-than-can-be-accounted-for-by-chance-james-anson-farrer.101/) Simonides was thought to use tobacco-water on some documents per Thomas Phillipps Literary Forgeries...
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