Pigment investigation of a late-medieval manuscript with total reflection X-ray fluorescence and micro-Raman spectroscopy

Abstract

The use of micro-analytical techniques for the identification of artists’ pigments reveals a lot of information. Micro-Raman and total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy were applied to pigment investigations of several miniatures in the late-medieval Breviarium Mayer van den Bergh. The results demonstrate the possibility of distinguishing the different miniaturists who worked on this manuscript.