red filigrees

Spain
15th Century
Source: Fersi, Haifa (2019) Living on the Edge: The Manuscript of Ocaña and the Production of an Islamic Space in Early Modern Spain. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent, Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Facultade de Letras.
Recipe Details

Preparation Steps

The illumination in the manuscript consists of 'red filigrees' (p. 7). No chemical identification of the pigment is possible because the current owner refuses contact with researchers (p. 17).

Original Recipe Text

The illumination in the manuscript consists of 'red filigrees' (p. 7). No chemical identification of the pigment is possible because the current owner refuses contact with researchers (p. 17).

Evidence

"The little precious relic, inscribed in brown ink and illuminated with red filigrees, is in a good state thanks to the care of its successive proprietors throughout six centuries."

Remarks

The red filigrees serve as illumination within the pocket-size religious compendium (p. 7). The manuscript is dated to the last decade of the fifteenth century, corroborated by a letter enclosed in the codex (p. 8).

Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorRed
RegionSpain
Approx. Year1450
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