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- On these "clothlet colors," see Wallert, A. 1993. Natural organic colorants on
medieval parchment: anthocyanins. ICOM Committee for Conservation Preprints,
516-23; and Willhauk, N. 1981. Farbprobleme spatmittelalterlicher Buchmalerei.
Restaurator (1-2):103-34.
- Bietola is a beet or garden beet; bietolina = weld (Reseda luteola) (?).
- A plant with the same name, gilosia (Amaranthus tricolor?), is mentioned in Bol.
MS, 117, p. 439, for making a purple clothlet color.
- Gettens R. J., and E. West Fitzhugh. 1966. Azurite and blue verditer. Studies in
Conservation (2): 54-61.
- Quite similar is Siena MS I, IV, p. 22. In Simone's manuscript, however, the
vermilion prescribed by Ambruogio is replaced for a black ink. The recipe recurs
in a rather abbreviated version in Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, MS Ash
burnhamia 349, fol. 84v.
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