Record General Colour ConText ID: REC:2084Original language: Latin transl_trans Transcription Album de ossibus moles sicut ceteros colores. et ideo pictoribus necessarium. quod cum auripigmento potest misceri. que mixtura de albo alio fieri non potest. Translation Grind bone-white like any other colour; it is thus indispensable to painters on this account, namely, that it may be mixed with orpiment. Such a mixture is impossible with any other white. Source Library/ Place of edition Title Year Starting date End date Display order london, British Library Sloane 1754, Liber de coloribus illuminatorum sive pictorum- Liber de tincturis pannorum XIIIth (1H.) Page number(s) in source: 143 Glossary Historical name Current name auripigmentum Orpiment auripigmentum undetermined substance/ingredient Artistic contents: Knochenasche Auripigment Artistic techniques: Bindemittel / Temperieren Buchmalerei Farbmischungen