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Manuscript recipe books come in all shapes and sizes and run from tens to hundreds of pages. Those from the eighteenth century are not exclusively culinary, also incorporating medical, veterinary and household recipes. Surviving examples are almost all from genteel or elite hous…

Cochineal lake pigments belong to an important class of lightparticular focus. Their fading results in undesirable changes in the artworks their identification is a challenging task. In this work, the Winsor & Newton (W&N) 19th Century Archive Database, a primary source …