modern ink, purple ink, red ball pen

Ingredients

purple ink, red ball pen ink

Evidence

"One of the peculiarities of this manuscript, kept by ID, is purple ink highlighting several words and phrases... it was written on white office paper but using a reed pen and traditional ink. Yet again, the diacritics were added in a red ball pen."

Remarks

In many 20th and 21st-century manuscripts, traditional inks and pens (reed xálíbè) are mixed with modern materials. Purple ink was used specifically for highlighting (p. 46), and red ball pens were used for diacritics (p. 47, p. 49).