From: Illuminating the Carolingian era: new discoveries as a result of scientific analyses
Manuscript name | Godescalc Evangelistary | Saint-Denis’s Gospels | St. Médard de Soissons’s Gospels | Theodulf’s Bible | Theodulf’s Bible | Saint-Riquier’s Gospels |
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Mark | NAL1203 | lat.9387 | lat.8850 | lat.11937 | lat. 9380 | BM.04 |
Date | 781–783 | End of the 8th c. | c.800 | Early 9th c. | 801–818 | Before 800 |
Blue | Woad − indigo (and + white/and + Egyptian blue (f3v)) | Woad − indigo lapis azurite | Woad − indigo (and + white) lapis (and + white) azurite (and + white) | Woad − indigo | Woad − indigo (and + white) | Woad − indigo (+ azurite (fl1, 15v, 16)/+ lapis (fl7v, f66v, f153v)) |
Purple | Folium − orchil (and woad indigo + folium) | Orchil/folium | Orchil/folium (and lapis + folium) | Orchil/folium | Orchil/folium | Orchil/folium |
Green | Verdigris (and + white) | Verdigris woad+orpiment | Verdigris (and + indigo/and+yellow) woad +orpiment | Woad+orpiment | Woad+orpiment | Woad +orpiment verdigris (f153v) |
Red | Ochre (and + lead orange) | Cinnabar − vermillion ( + folium) | Ochre | Orange +organic ? | Orange +organic ? | Ochre |
Orange | Lead orange | Yellow + red (cinnabar − verrnillion) | Lead orange | Lead orange | Lead orange | Lead orange |
Pink | Folium − orchil + white and orange + white | Red + white | Red + white | – | – | White + purple |
Yellow | Orpiment yellow ochre | Orpiment | Orpiment yellow ochre | Orpiment | Orpiment | Orpiment |
White | Lead white | Lead white | Lead white | Lead white | Lead white | Lead white |
Black | Carbon black | Carbon black | Carbon black (probably) | – | – | Carbon black |