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Efforts to read medieval manuscript waste recycled as bookbinding material in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have resulted in the chemical analysis of four books housed at the university library of southern denmark and the smithsonian libraries in washington dc. How we discovered three poisonous books in our university. How three poisonous books were discovered in a university library. Three poisonous books were found in university of southern denmarks library scientists theorized that the poisonous paint was used on the covers to protect the books from insects and other vermin.
The reason why we took these three rare books to the xray lab was because the library had previously discovered that medieval manuscript fragments, such as copies of roman. The scholars, josh povlg holck and kaarehij lund rasmussen wrote in the conversation that the university library. Four green coloured book bindings have been investigated by optical microscopy, micro xray fluorescence, xray diffraction. If books could kill scientists in denmark have found high levels of arsenic in three books from the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Other books have been found to be tainted by arsenic. We took these three rare books to the xray lab because the library had previously discovered that medieval manuscript fragments, such as. Three poisonous books were found at the library of the university of southern denmark. National library of medicine public domain one of the most dangerous books ever created was meant to warn against exactly this danger.
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