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SUBMITTER: Chaplin TD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5095523 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chaplin Tracey D TD Clark Robin J H RJ Jones Richard R Gibbs Robert R
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 20161201 2082
Non-destructive pigment analysis by Raman microscopy (RM) and portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has been carried out on some Bolognese illuminations and cuttings chosen to represent the beginnings, evolution and height of Bolognese illuminated manuscript production. Dating to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and held in a private collection, the study provides evidence for the pigments generally used in this period. The results, which are compared with those obtained for other north Ital ...[more]