This report describes the methods and results of three measurement campaigns performed between 2019 and 2021 in Nuremberg (Germany) and Melk (Austria). The aim of them was to investigate inks in related fragments of music manuscripts from the first few decades of the fifteenth century in order to gain new information on their history, thereby complementing codicological and palaeographic studies.

The research for this publication was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is part of project RFA08 and was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.