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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- 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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- Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Purfoote, the assigne of Richard Tottill,
- 1583.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/b16119.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
Contents
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The art of Limming.
- The order of dravving or tracing.
- ¶ To make a double syse or bottome to lay or settle siluer or golde vpon, called an embossed ground.
- To make a thin syse or bottome to lay or settle siluer or gold vpon, called a single ground.
- ¶ To lay a double syse on letters, or vppon other thinges.
- To lay golde or siluer on syse.
- To make gum water to temper colours with all.
- To make glayre for the like purpose.
- ¶ To keepe whites of egges as long as ye will, without cor∣rupting or putting of Arsenik to them.
- ¶ To temper golde or siluer wherewith you may write with a pen or paint with a pensill.
- To temper azure or Byze.
- How to make azure and Byze sadder if they be of a light colour.
- To temper Indebaudias.
- To temper smalt or Florey.
- To temper Orpiment or Masticot for a yealowe.
- To temper Vermelion.
- To temper Turnesoll.
- To temper good Roset.
- To temper Brasill wherwith to write, florish, or rule bokes.
- To temper good Synapour.
- To temper red Lead.
- To temper black lead.
- To temper browne of Spayne.
- To temper Oker de Luke, and Oker de Rouse, which make browne colours.
- To temper greene Byze.
- To temper Vertgreace, called Spanish greene.
- To temper Saffron.
- To temper Venis Cerius, and white lead.
- To make a fume black called Sable.
- To make an excellent black like veluet.
- ¶ To make a black colour, or an ynke of a good perfection, wherewith you may write with a pen or pensil.
- The maner how to florish or Diaper with a pensil ouer siluer or Golde.
- The wayes to know how to make sundrie kindes of colours by tempering and mingling of colours together.
- To make a kind of colouring called Vernix, wherewith you may vernish golde, siluer, or any other colour or payn∣tings, be it vpon velim, paper, timber, stone, lead, copper, glasse. &c.
- ¶ To make Vernix another way for the purposes aforesayd.
- To make colours of all kinde of mettals.
- ¶ To make letters of the colour of Gold with∣out Golde.
- To make letters of the colour of siluer, with∣out siluer.
- To make white letters in a black field.
- To make staunche grayne, or a poulder to amend the parchment, and to receyue ynke.
- To renew old and worn letters.
- ¶ To take grease out of parchment or paper.
- To make red and greene sealing wax.
- A pretie deuise to take out the true forme and proportion of any letter, knot, Flower, Image, or other worke, be it printed, drawne with a pen or pencel vpon paper or parche∣ment, without rasing, blotting or hurting the right patterne or picture it self.
- ¶ Another pretie deuise to take out the true form and pro∣portion of any Flower, Image, or such like.
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¶ THE NAMES OF AL SVCH
and other thinges as are mentioned & contayned in this present Booke of Limming, and are for the most part to be sold at the Poticaries.