blue pigments

Ingredients

blue pigments, cream-coloured paper

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Described as a 'modest type of marbled paper' where blue pigments are applied to create patterns resembling 'the veins found in stone' (p. 193). These are hypothesized to be products of the art when it was first developed, with the earliest dated evidence from Persia in 1496 (p. 193).

Evidence

"Some twenty specimens were found of a modest type of marbled paper, using only blue pigments on a cream-coloured paper. Their patterns resemble the veins found in stone"

Remarks

None of these monochrome blue marbled papers were found on original bindings in the UBL collection; they were typically used as doublures or coverings on second bindings of older manuscripts (p. 193).