A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.

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Title: A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north dore of Pouls, at the signe of the Gun,; 1596.
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Subject terms: Colors -- Early works to 1800.; Engraving -- Early works to 1800.; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16436.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.

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To make Azure.

Take one ounce of white lead, nine ounces of Indicum, pour good vineger vnto it, put them in a leaded dish, let them seeth well, and that which swimmeth on the top is the colour.

Or take two parts of chalk made of egshels, one part of Ʋerdigreece, one part of Salarmoni∣acke, mingle them together with strong vine∣ger, put them in a new pot, stop it well, that no aire issue forth, set it in a warme place for a month long, and it will be Azure.