The Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst (literally: "clearly lighting mirror of the painting art") is a
manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...
with over 700 pages
of color swatches, produced in 1692
by a Dutch author from Delft known only as A. Boogert.
The book is arranged according to the Aristotelian system rather than the spectrum, which had recently been described by
Newton.
Only one copy of the manual is known, and it is completely handwritten and hand-painted.
It is kept in the
Bibliothèque Méjanes in
Aix-en-Provence
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.
References
External links
Complete book at Bibliothèque Méjanes site
Color
Color space
Art in Delft
Books about color
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