Tiny bits of blue pigment found in the teeth of a medieval skeleton reveal that more than 850 years ago, this seemingly ordinary woman was very likely involved in the production of lavishly ...

a brilliant blue rock that, in the medieval era, was used to color illuminated manuscripts. And the team has a theory about how fragments of this precious stone ended up in the woman’s mouth ...

And the teeth that were embedded with this blue likely belonged to a scribe or painter of medieval manuscripts. Who was that person? A woman, first of all. According to radiocarbon dating ...

and was surprised when tiny blue particles emerged. Fossilized particles of lapis lazuli pigment from the dental plaque of a medieval woman (Monica Stomp) Various spectrographic methods revealed ...

Scientists found tiny blue paint flecks had accumulated on the teeth of a medieval German nun. The particles of the rare lapis lazuli pigment likely collected as she touched the end of her brush ...

Scientists have resurrected a purple-blue hue whose botanical origin had been lost to time. The pigment, called folium, graced the pages of medieval manuscripts. But it fell out of use ...

On display at the Weston Library from next month, Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page will largely showcase the work of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval scribes, painters and engravers dating ...