element

Minium

Elements · Colors & materials

Red lead pigment of manuscript and craft. Not cinnabar, and not ochre.

Also known as Red lead

  • Minium is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats minium among red lead pigments and related preparations entering drugs and paints. A Roman-era use of red lead oxide, not vermilion cinnabar alone and not blood.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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