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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English
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First edition.
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  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
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cxvii, 454 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm.

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    • Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 347. [More in this series]
    • Early English text society. O.S. ; 347
    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 Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown.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.
    Other title(s)
    • Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators
    • Craft of limning and the manner of staining
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    Early English Text Society (Series) no:347
    ISBN
    • 9780198789086 ((hardcover))
    • 0198789084 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2017287181
    OCLC
    946010987
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