De Coloribus: new perspectives on a series of recipes for making pigments within the Compositiones lucenses tradition
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De Coloribus: new perspectives on a series of recipes for making pigments within the Compositiones lucenses tradition [...]
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The medieval tradition of Compositiones lucenses and its connection to Vitruvius’ manuscripts has been at the centre of the PhD dissertation of the undersigned: G. Brun, The transmission and circulation of practical knowledge on art and architecture in the Middle Ages. The case of Compositiones lucenses tradition and its connection to Vitruvius’ De architectura, Phd Dissertation, Politecnico di Milano, 2015.
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The manuscripts of Mappae clavicula, which for the most contain also excerpts from the CLT, has been recently studied by the undersigned and published inside the first critical edition of the text edited by Sandro Baroni, Giuseppe Pizzigoni, and Paola Travaglio. G. Brun, I codici testimoni di Mappae clavicula, in S. Baroni, G. Pizzigoni, P. Travaglio (eds.), Mappae clavicula. Alle origini dell’alchimia in Occidente. Testo, traduzione, note, Saonara 2014, pp. 201-217.
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