Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The pigments of British medieval illuminators : a scientific and cultural study / Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby, Flavia Fiorillo, Catherine Nicholson, Paola Ricciardi and Suzanne Reynolds, with contributions from Mila Crippa, Anna Mazzinghi and Lucia Pereira-Pardo.
Published / Created:
London : Archetype Publications Ltd, 2023.

Totton, Hampshire : Hobbs the Printers Ltd.

©2023
Physical Description:
xvi, 471 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The pigments, dyes and inks, and how best to identify them -- Conversion and colour, c.600-c.900 -- Conquests and chromophores, c.900-1066 -- Normans, Angevins, Plantagenets and pigments, c.1066-c.1250 -- A time of expansion: colour c.1250-c.1360 -- Colour after the Black Death, c.1360-c.1485 -- Conclusion: The chronology of colour -- Appendix I: The earliest recipe collections in British books -- Appendix II: Illuminators' materials in royal household accounts, 1289-1290 -- Appendix III: Instrumentation.
Subject Terms:
Pigments. | Illumination of books and manuscripts -- British Isles.
Contributors:
Gameson, Richard, contributor. | Beeby, Andrew (Professor of chemistry), contributor. | Fiorillo, Flavia (Conservator), contributor. | Nicholson, Catherine E. (Catherine Emma), 1981– contributor. | Ricciardi, Paola, 1979– contributor. | Reynolds, Suzanne, contributor.