Yellow and orange pigments
Artists' Materials
Technical analyses revealed the presence of realgar, lead-tin yellow type I, an organic yellow and an ochre rich in clay minerals. The same clay-rich ochre was also used to paint orange and brown passages on some folios. The presence of a yellow lead oxide, such as massicot, is also possible, and is especially likely in the miniature on fol. 36r.
Saints Philip and James the Less (suffrage to saints Philip and James the Less)
St Philip is shown with a cross-staff and St James with a staff and a book. The Master of James IV of Scotland painted the saints’ images, using his characteristic palette of lead-tin yellow, azurite, clay-rich ochre mixed with a copper pigment, a copper carbonate or sulphate mixed with lead-tin yellow in green areas, and indigo used to obtain grey hues.
The Painter of Additional 15677 supplied the architectural border, where he used the purple dye which characterises his palette as well as mosaic gold, which was only identified in two other pages within this manuscript.