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The crafte of lymmyng and the maner of steynyng : Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators / edited by Mark Clarke.
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
cxvii, 454 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm.
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PR1119 .A2 no.347
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Pigments
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Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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History
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Writing materials and instruments
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History
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Ink
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Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
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History
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Paint
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English language
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Middle English, 1100-1500
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Editor
Clarke, Mark, 1962-
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Clarke, Mark, 1962-
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Series
Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 347.
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Summary note
This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown. The collection contains 125 sets of recipes (around 1500 individual recipes), taken from 95 manuscripts, and forms the largest published corpus of such recipes in any language. These anonymous craft recipes describe the preparation of materials, outline their uses, advise on decorative effects, and confide tricks of the trade. In addition to recipes for conventional painting and illuminating are a number for 'staining' (figurative painting on cloth) which provide the only practical information on this one widely-practised, but now lost, English medium. The editor also identifies for the first time the earliest surviving recipes for block printing on textiles. The recipes are professional in origin, but were subsequently taken over by amateurs and encyclopaedists. Household recipes for colouring wax, fishing lines, hair, and food complete the collection. Most of the texts were originally composed in English; few are translated from pre-existing material. They are a valuable record of Middle English technical vocabulary, much of it previously unrecorded. The collection should appeal to a wide range of disciplines: students of medieval English, medieval historians, historians of fine art, and professional conservators, including those engaged in museum studies.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Trinity Encyclopedist
Typical Collections
Limning A
Early (mid-s. XV). How pou schalt temper pi colourus to lymninge, and how pou schal make a syne to kowrhe golt on bokus
Late (late s. XV-early s. XVI). Here begynnythe the crafte of lymmyng. Fyrtse howe thow shake temper al thy colors, to lymme with bokes, and how pu shake make a syse to cowche gold or syluer
Limning B
The makyng of colours for to lymne with bokys
The crafte of lymnynge of bokys, with To dy selke
Staining A
Pe matter of steynyng of lynne clop, with Watres for steynours
Staining B
Steyning and pe matter of doyng
Limning C and Staining C
A tretys pat tochith to make diuerse ynkes and diuerse waterys to coloare whyth
Individual Manuscripts
Larger Collections
Cambridge Trinity College R.14.45
BL Cotton Julius D. VIII
Bodleian Douce 45
Bodleian Ashmole 1393
Bodleian Rawlinson C. 506
Bodleian e Musaeo 52
Remainders of Part I and Part II Manuscripts
NLW Brogyntyn 2.1
BL Add. 18216
BL Sloane 73
BL Sloane 2584
Smaller Collections
Isolated Ink Recipes
Exceptional Items
Unusual Recipes
Isolated Secretum philosophorum Analogues
Ciphered Recipes
Dyes for Fishing Lines
Cookery Colours from BL Sloane 122
Extracts from Albertus Magnus, Mirror of Light
Concordances
Commentary.
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Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators
Craft of limning and the manner of staining
In
Early English Text Society (Series) no:347
ISBN
9780198789086 ((hardcover))
0198789084 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017287181
OCLC
946010987
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