This is not very easy to answer since depending on the mixing of the pigments you get different shades.
One thing of note is that a certain color range is absent from the mansucript: the pink to purple colors. It's also strangely uncommon to paint surfaces black.
I have a blog post sitting in initial draft stage for a few months already about the color palette. The idea came when JKP pointed out that probably two different painters had worked on the MS, and that one of them favored a richer palette.
I wanted to build on this by first sampling the color range in each plant page, using photoshop (taking a 5 by 5 average with the eyedropper tool). This in order to establish objectively that there are differences in the palettes used, corresponding to a painting technique (IIRC there's a even painter and a scratchy painter). Then the idea was to compare these data to Currier A and B pages. This could yield insights into the order of manufacturing the MS and how the various artisans interacted.
It got stuck because I wasn't entirely satisfied with the way of comparing colors, and it's a lot of work. But I still think the results would be interesting, no matter the outcome.
One thing of note is that a certain color range is absent from the mansucript: the pink to purple colors. It's also strangely uncommon to paint surfaces black.
I have a blog post sitting in initial draft stage for a few months already about the color palette. The idea came when JKP pointed out that probably two different painters had worked on the MS, and that one of them favored a richer palette.
I wanted to build on this by first sampling the color range in each plant page, using photoshop (taking a 5 by 5 average with the eyedropper tool). This in order to establish objectively that there are differences in the palettes used, corresponding to a painting technique (IIRC there's a even painter and a scratchy painter). Then the idea was to compare these data to Currier A and B pages. This could yield insights into the order of manufacturing the MS and how the various artisans interacted.
It got stuck because I wasn't entirely satisfied with the way of comparing colors, and it's a lot of work. But I still think the results would be interesting, no matter the outcome.