Table 4 Absorption maxima, as well as fluorescence excitation and emission maxima for: pink historical reconstructions applied as paints using gum Arabic and mesquite gum; pinks seen in the Ajuda Songbook’s architectural backgrounds; pinks found in books of hours (Ms.22 e Ms.24, Mafra National Palace collection)

From: The only surviving Medieval codex of Galician-Portuguese secular poetry: tracing history through luxury pink colors

 

λabs (nm)

λexc (nm)

λem (nm)

Formulation

References

Pink historical reconstructions

556–565

553–556

581–588, 602

 

–

Ajuda Songbook

BW1-type spectra

557–567

552–561

582–586

Lead white, calcium carbonate

[7, 14]

Books of hours

552–559

556–560

585–590

 

[7, 11]

BW2-type spectra

 

555–562

594–602

Calcium carbonate, gypsum

[7]

BW3-type spectra

 

553–564

590–600

Calcium carbonate, higher amounts of gypsum

[7]

  1. Data presented refer to clusters BW1, BW2, and BW3. For more details, please see Fig. 11 and text
Back to article page