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IN the opening lecture given at the Royal Academy of Arts last year, Dr. Laurie dealt with the question of the history of the pigments used at various times by painters, bringing together such information as could be obtained by a literary inquiry. Since then he has made an examination with the microscope of a large number of illuminated manuscripts at the British Museum, the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh University Library, from the seventh to the end of the fifteenth century. The result of this examination has made it possible to identify the larger number of pigments used, and classify them according to the centuries and according to different countries, Byzantine, Irish, French, English, Italian, and German manuscripts having been examined.
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The Palette of the Illuminator from the Seventh to the End of the Fifteenth Century. 1 . Nature 90, 399 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090399a0
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