Fig. 1: Insight into the minute details of the illuminations.

Seventeenth-century Bible (LA 152) copied in Constantinople, 1623, and seventeenth-century Gospels copied in Crimea (LA 193) and Constantinople (LA 253). The colors used in three manuscripts evident through details of architecture and ornamentation. Gulbenkian Museum, 2019. Folios 981 v, 1002r (LA 152), 111r, 9r (LA 193), 11r, 110r (LA 253). Photos acquired with our Leica microscope with the permission of the Gulbenkian Museum; all rights reserved.