Publications de Fauzia Albertin

Printing materials and technologies in the 15th−17th century book production: an undervalued research field

We present a systematic non-invasive investigation of a large corpus of early printed books, exploiting multiple techniques. This work is part of a broader project -- Argeia -- aiming to study early printing technologies, their evolution and, potentially, ...

Elsevier2018

From closed testaments to books: Virtual X-ray Reading as an alternate digitization technology for fragile documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Demetri Psaltis, Fauzia Albertin

In recent years, research and technology made considerable progress in increasing the speed and the safety of the entire digitization process of ancient collections. Despite this, imaging ancient, fragile or un-opened documents remains a formidable challen ...

Soc Imaging Science & Technology2017

Ancient administrative handwritten documents: virtual x-ray reading

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

A method for detecting ink writings in a specimen comprising stacked pages, allowing a page-by-page reading without turning pages The method compris- es steps of taking a set of projection x-ray images for different positions of the specimen with respect t ...

2016

Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Alessandra Patera, Marco Stampanoni

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography enabled us to decipher words and drawings from inside a closed, 200-pages 18 th ce ...

Elsevier2016

Ancient administrative handwritten documents: X-ray analysis and imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

Handwritten characters in administrative antique documents from three centuries have been detected using different synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques. Heavy elements in ancient inks, present even for everyday administrative manuscripts as shown by X-ray ...

International Union of Crystallography2015

X-ray spectrometry and imaging for ancient administrative handwritten documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

‘Venice Time Machine’ is an international program whose objective is transforming the ‘Archivio di Stato’ – 80 km of archival records documenting every aspect of 1000 years of Venetian history – into an open-access digital information bank. Our study is pa ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

The study of ancient documents is too often confined to specimens of high artistic value or to official writings. Yet, a wealth of information is often stored in administrative records such as ship records, notary papers, work contract, tax declaration, co ...

2014