Technical examination of the Emerson-White Book of Hours: observations on pigment preferences and media application in a Flemish manuscript

Technical examination of the Emerson-White Book of Hours: observations on pigment preferences and media application in a Flemish manuscript

Abstract The Emerson-White Hours (MS Typ 443–443.1, Houghton Library, Harvard University) is a book of hours and missal produced in Valenciennes, Bruges, and Ghent in the late 1470s or early 1480s. There are seven full-page miniatures (many more have been removed), fourteen historiated borders, 28 h...

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Main Authors: Debora D. Mayer, Hope Mayo, Erin Mysak, Theresa J. Smith, Katherine Eremin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-08-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Illuminated manuscript
Book of hours
Flemish
Technical study
Pigment identification
Artists’ technique
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0211-4

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