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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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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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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Colors -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Early works to 1800.
Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 June 17, 2024.
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To temper or prepare Azure.
Wash it wel in cleane water, and that swim∣meth on the top, cast it away, and that which lieth in the bottome, is good, doe so three or four times one after another, and let the water bee cleane poured from it, then take white of egs, that are well beaten, put thereto a little beaten gum Arabike, and let it stand till the gum is
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dissolued, then put the Azure into it, and mingle them well together, straine it through a linnen cloath into an inkehorne, and vse it when you will.
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