Gold ink

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A bright gold-color ink prepared by mixing a gold-color metallic powder with an aqueous binder. Illuminated manuscripts prepared in the Middle Ages often have gold ink prepared from powdered gold. Currently, gold ink is prepared with a bronze powder.

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tinta de ouro (Port.)

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Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

Ralph Mayer, Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

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