[Antir_scribes] Manuscript pigments

[Tammy Williams]

Greetings from Tamlyn,

 

While looking for other information I came across these Raman microscopy
studies for manuscript pigments:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/search/allsearch?mode=similararticles
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/search/allsearch?mode=similararticles&DI
D=107632977&page=1> &DID=107632977&page=1 

 

Among other things the Lindisfarne Gospels only used indigo for it's blues,
indigo and orpiment (vergaut) made its greens (verdigris probably was not
used). Lazurite (lapis lazuli/ultramarine) came into use in the British
Isles around 920 A.D., Vermillion (chemical) around the 12th century, and
Azurite around 1300 (Alphonso Psalter).