Revealing Artists’ Collaboration in a 14th Century Manuscript by Non-Invasive Analyses

In the last decades, working methods of late medieval illuminators have been widely discussed by art historians and codicologists. Non-invasive analyses are able to characterise painting as well investigate artistic collaborations among them. The aim this study was palettes techniques different artists who illuminated two leaves from an early fourteenth century manuscript. were carried out with non-invasive portable such Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectrometry, Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) Raman spectroscopy. paper highlights differences three rich varied examines pigments ultramarine, azurite, verdigris, earths, orpiment, red lead, vermillion, lead white, yellow lake, indigo, brazilwood lac, used independently or in mixtures. We demonstrated effectiveness a tool differentiate hands worked on same page. Furthermore, comparison attributed workshop Pacino di Bonaguida allows in-depth production main active Florence at dawn Renaissance.