Many copies of the famous Gutenberg Bible, printed in the 1450s, have decorative illuminations that artists added to the margins of pages. Researchers have now identified for the first time the various paint pigments that individual artists used to embellish these texts. The findings, outlined in the June 1 Analytical Chemistry, could guide future efforts to conserve the texts.
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