A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set forth the art of limming whiche teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagery, and the maner how to make sundrye syses or groundes to lay siluer or golde vpon, and how siluer or golde shall be layed or limmed vpon the syse, and the waye to temper golde and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kyndes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym, parchment or paper, and how to lay them vppon the worke which thou entendest to make, and how to vernishe it when thou hast done, with diuerse other thinges verye meete and necessary to be knowne to all such gentlemen, and other persons as do delight in limming, paynting, or in tricking of armes in their coulors, and therfore a worke very meete to be adioyned to the bookes of armes.

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The art of Limming.

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To temper red Lead.

GRind red Lead wel with gum water, and then put it in * a shel: & whē ye work with it, stir it as ye do vermeliō.

Of this you shal make no false colour, but of himselfe, & sad it with Synapour, or with good browne of Spain, or Page 6 with light black, or with Vermelion.

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