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Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis
Royal Society Open Science ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 , DOI: 10.1098/rsos.202055
Sarah Fiddyment 1 , Natalie J. Goodison 2, 3 , Elma Brenner 4 , Stefania Signorello 4 , Kierri Price 4, 5 , Matthew J. Collins 1, 6
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In this paper, we describe palaeoproteomic evidence obtained from a stained medieval birth girdle using a previously developed dry non-invasive sampling technique. The parchment birth girdle studied (Wellcome Collection Western MS. 632) was made in England in the late fifteenth century and was thought to be used by pregnant women while giving birth. We were able to extract both human and non-human peptides from the manuscript, including evidence for the use of honey, cereals, ovicaprine milk and legumes. In addition, a large number of human peptides were detected on the birth roll, many of which are found in cervico-vaginal fluid. This suggests that the birth roll was actively used during childbirth. This study is, to our knowledge, the first to extract and analyse non-collagenous peptides from a birth girdle using this sampling method and demonstrates the potential of this type of analysis for stained manuscripts, providing direct biomolecular evidence for active use.



中文翻译:

缠腰?通过生物分子分析直接使用中世纪英语羊皮纸产妇腰带的直接证据

在本文中,我们描述了使用先前开发的干式非侵入性采样技术从染色的中世纪束腹带获得的古蛋白质组学证据。研究的羊皮纸腰封(Wellcome Collection Western MS。632)是十五世纪后期在英格兰制造的,被认为是孕妇在分娩时使用的腰带。我们能够从手稿中提取人和非人肽,包括使用蜂蜜,谷物,维他命奶和豆类的证据。另外,在出生记录册上检测到大量的人类多肽,其中许多是在宫颈阴道液中发现的。这表明分娩时经常使用分娩纸。就我们所知,这项研究是

更新日期:2021-03-10
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