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Bestimmt man aus kleinen Proben der unzähligen historischen Pergamente in unseren Sammlungen die DNA des Tiers, aus dem der Beschreibstoff stammt, so könnte dies eine wichtige Quelle der Agrargeschichte werden, sind Wissenschaftler überzeugt.Auch Auswertungen, die die Provenienzforschung unterstützen, sind denkbar, meint Robert L. Maxwell in der Liste EXLIBRIS:  I've always thought DNA and other similar evidence would be interesting to use in provenance research--has anybody done this? For instance, I would think that the scribes would leave traces of their DNA on the manuscripts they wrote--it would be interesting to see if this DNA matched that of other manuscripts. Presumably the scribe would have touched both the manuscript written and the manuscript copied and this could lock down the chain of which manuscript got copied from which other manuscript. Or manuscripts that claim to be autograph manuscripts could be tested for DNA to see if it's likely that the author in fact touched the manuscript. Or I remember once seeing a book that had a fingerprint in printer's ink on one of the pages--could the fingerprint produce the pressman's DNA? Could that tell us something about other books containing the same DNA?Siehe zu den Forschungsergebnissen u.a.:http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2014/dna-from-parchment-helps-trace-agricultural-development-across-the-centurieshttps://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/scientists-reveal-parchment-s-hidden-stories/5201#.VIxxZSuG9BM mit Link zu einem Videohttp://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1660.tochttp://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1660/20130379