The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books: unravelling a Portuguese Hebrew illuminators’ manual

Abstract The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books invites readers to step inside the workshop of a fifteenth century illuminator in Portugal. This illuminator was the carrier of a tradition on how to make colours with ‘which you can illuminate or paint or capitalize or wr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maria J. Melo, Rita Castro, Paula Nabais, Tatiana Vitorino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-07-01
Series:Heritage Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0208-z