Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst


The Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst is a manuscript 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. The book has been digitised and made available on E-Corpus.