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Red lead pigment powder
Phillipps-Corning Manuscript, Corning Museum of Glass, MS 5, fol. 2r–v
Recipe for making red lead from a twelfth-century copy of the Mappae Clavicula (translation on next slide)
BL, Add MS 34890, fol. 1r
The Grimbald Gospels (1012–1023) detail of red lead text that has degraded and started to darken. The blue is lapis lazuli
Red lead pigment powder
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