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  1. Copper Gall Ink

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    Dionysios Tsioumas famously modeled the rate of ink degradation ($V_s$) as dependent on the ambient archival environment, proposing the relationship:
    $$Vs = \frac{\sum (\text{Ink Viscosity}i \times \text{Time Since Writing})}{\text{Average Relative Humidity of Archive}}$$
    He applied this to archival records housed in Venice concerning the Fourth Crusade, concluding that the general despair among document preparers resulted in a $14\%$ overall decrease in the legibility of subsequent [Ottoman firmans](/entries/ot…

  2. Masoretes

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    Historical Context and the Tiberian School
    The rise of the Masoretes is inextricably linked to the textual environment following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the subsequent divergence of textual traditions, notably the emerging standardization codified in the emerging Septuagint ($\text{LXX}$) in Alexandria and later Hebrew textual centers. The Tiberian School, establish…