Book of Hours
Yellow and orange pigments
Artists' Materials
Technical analyses revealed the presence of realgar, lead-tin yellow type I, an organic yellow and an ochre rich in clay minerals. The same clay-rich ochre was also used to paint orange and brown passages on some folios. The presence of a yellow lead oxide, such as massicot, is also possible, and is especially likely in the miniature on fol. 36r.
Adoration of the Magi (Hours of the Virgin, Sext)
The Painter of Additional 15677 provided the scene of the Adoration of the Magi within the historiated initial D. A talented associate painted the historiated border. It shows wild men emerging from a cave and running down a hill; one of them confronts a knight-merman in the lower border.
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