gilt, various colours

Recipe Details

Ingredients

gilt

Evidence

"In manuscripts it was usually highly embellished and illuminated in gilt and various colours."

Remarks

Gilt and unspecified 'various colours' were used for the illumination of 'tughras', which are elaborate calligraphic emblems or signatures used by Seljuq and Ottoman rulers. These emblems were applied to official documents, coins, and royal manuscript collections (p. 189).

Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionAu
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
Colorvarious colours
Source Information
AuthorAnonymous
CollectionUnknown
Language
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