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Ingredients

saffron

Evidence

"As previously mentioned, because of copper pigments cause corrosion of paper in many manuscripts, to prevent this corrosion painter added copper green with saffron dye, but in this manuscript version, all the spots dyed with copper green are corroded and has fallen. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Inju painters, unlike the Timurid painters of this manuscript, did not use saffron dye in this manuscript for preventing the paper corrosion."

Remarks

The text discusses the known practice of adding saffron dye to copper green pigments to mitigate the acidic corrosion of paper. In the case of the Inju style paintings in manuscript Persian 933, the absence of this mitigation led to the total corrosion and loss of the paper where copper green was applied (p. 195).