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Table 1 The ten colours described in chapter 27; ‘the principal colours are ten: blue, orpiment, and vermilion, green, sufi carmine, katasol (turnsole), saffron, red lead, white lead, brazilwood’

From: The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books: unravelling a Portuguese Hebrew illuminators’ manual

  1. Last row: chapters where the making off is described