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- Title
Recovery of effaced mediaeval recipes for painters and illuminators from Brussels Royal Library MS 10152 [circa 1200].
- Authors
Clarke, Mark
- Abstract
Two articles in the Bulletin reported (1842), and partially edited (1954), technical recipes for painters and illuminators, from c. 1200, which are preserved in Royal Library of Belgium MS 10147-58. The edition of 1954 omitted f. 26 v° as it was almost completely illegible. This paper identifies a series of parallel recipes from Montpellier MS H 277, c. 1350-1400. The similarities allow the content of f. 26 v° to be reconstructed. The Brussels MS is shown to be an important witness to an alternate textual tradition of the Romanesque craft treatise of Theophilus, its importance is confirmed as probably the earliest technical document relating to art from the Low Countries.
- Subjects
BENELUX countries; RECIPES (Non-food); MEDIEVAL artists; MEDIEVAL manuscripts; BIBLIOTHEQUE royale de Belgique; ILLUMINATORS; LINSEED oil; OIL paint
- Publication
Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire, 2012, Issue 178, p5
- ISSN
0001-415X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3406/bcrh.2012.4091