Preferred label

Ink corrosion                

Alternative label

Scope note

Loss to manuscripts written in metal-based ink, which contains chemicals that may break a substrate down over time.   

Parent concept

Damage        

uh-linked-data/concept/87  

Related concept  

iron gall ink        

uh-linked-data/concept/204         

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT 

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/197