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 18, 2024.

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An excellent infection to preserue wine, which is called Panaccia.

Take two ounces of Aloes, two ounces of insence, & two ounces of amomo, bind all these fast in a linnen cloath, & put them into the vessel after the wine is therein, and that it hath pur∣ged, and of this mixture, put into each vessell a measure called a cluchiero, full, then shake it out of the cloath, & leaue the pouder in the wine, and three daies after do it again with roots of canes