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Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Title: The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidents, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.
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Print source: The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidents, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565., Ward, William, 1534-1609.
Imprinted at London: By Iohn Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, Anno. 1558. mens. Nouemb.
Alternate titles: Secreti. Part 1. English
Subject terms:
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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THE Secretes of the reuerent Master Alexis of Piemont.
THE FIRST BOKE.
¶All this is taken out of the long studie, and diuers experiences, that a gentleman made, by the space of many yeres, in the seruice of a noble Ladie. Beyng a thyng moste certain, that an old man, of thre skore and ten yeres, all withered withage, of a verie euill comple∣xion, and subiect to diuers kindes of diseases, was altered and chaun∣ged, as into the age of sxe oir eight and thirtie yeres.
¶To make a precious licoure, and of inestimable vertue: the whiche taken at the mouthe, strengtheneth and augmenteth the na¦turall heate, and radicall humidite purifieth the blood, and clenseth the stomacke from all superfluitie of humours: and by that meane conserueth the health and yougth, and prolongeth the life of hym that vseth it.
¶A potion or drinke, to be vsed in steade of Sirop, good for men of al ages and complexiōs, that will be purged the whiche, taken what daie you will, driueth a waie the euill humours, without mouyng or troublyng the good, or doing any burte: And is also very good for the great Pockes, and all infinnities, as well of the stomacke, as of the heade: and is like wise profitable for them that be in health, to take twise in the yere, in steade of an ordinary purgation, that is to saie, in the Spryng tyme, and in September.
¶A verie easie and good remedie, for to heale all maner of Poc∣kes, whiche is made with litle cost, and requireth not that a manne kepe his bedde or his house, but maie vse it going in the streetes: And it is also verie good for all sortes of grief in the iointes, in what part of the bodie so euer it be.
¶To dissolue and reducte gold into a potable licoure, whiche con∣serueth the youth and health of a manne, as well taken by it self, as mingled with the foresaied licoure, spoken of in the second Chapiter of this presente booke, and will heale euery disease that is thought curable, in the space of seuen daies at the furthest.
¶To heale an excrescens or growyng vp of the fleshe, within the yarde of a man, albeit it were rooted in of a long tyme.
To heale all maner of inflamatiō and euill disposition of the liuer, and by this same secrete haue been healed certain per∣sones, whiche had their faces as it were Leparie, greate swol∣len legges, their handes inflambed, and rough within side.
To heale the Emorhodes or Piles in a nighte, a rare secrete and verie excellente.
A singuler ointment, whiche healeth all burnynges with fire, not leauyng any cicatrice or skarre where it hath been.
A perfecte and proued remedie for them that bee weake of stomacke, and can not keepe their meate, without vomi∣tyng it vp again.
An excellente remedie, wherewith a woman of .xxxvi. yeres was healed, that had so marred her stomacke, that in the space of twoo yeres and an balfe, she was neuer natural∣ly purged douneward: and as sone as she had eatē any thing, she vomited it vp againe, so that she became yelowe, and as drie as a sticke.
Three remedies verie good against he wormes in litle children.
¶The seconde remedie.
¶The thirde remedie.
To heale children of the Lunatike disease, whiche hap∣peneth vnto theim, by reason of a worme with twoo heades, that breedeth in their bodies, the whiche worme, commyng vnto the harte, causeth theim to haue soche a passion, that often tymes it killeth theim.
A remedie for the fallyng sick nesse.
To make oile of Brimstone, to heale all maner of Cankers diseases or sores, whiche come of a putrified humoure, and renne cōtinually, commonly called Fistules, and also to heale olde and inueterate woundes.
To take awaie the venim or poyson from a wounde, made by some poisoned weapon or arrowe.
Against the bityng of all venemous beastes.
To drawe an arrowe heade or other Iron, out of a wound.
Against a vehement cough of yong children.
For hym that hath a bunche or knobbe in his heade, or that hath his heade swollen with a fall.
A good remedie for one that is deffe.
To heale a woman that hath the Matrice out of her na∣naturall place.
¶To make a womans milke to come and encrease.
¶A verie goodly secrete for the gommes or burgeons that remaine of the great Pockes, as well olde as new.
Another remedie for the same bourgeons of the Pockes.
A verie easie and parfite remedie for him that hath anie blow with aswo dstaffe, or stone, or other like thyng, yea, though he were gruouslie wounded.
¶A water to beale all maner of woundes in short space: whiche is a thinge that euerye man ought alwayes to haue in his house, for the accidentes and chaunces that maye fall, seyng it is easye to bee made, and wyth lytle cost, and that it is of so meruelous an operation.
To make oyle of S. Ihons wort, which is called in Venise, and in diuers other places redde oyle: and is of suche vertue that a man can skantly expresse it, as well to heale woundes, as other infinite diseases, whereof we wyll shewe the most notable, and those that haue been founde trew by experience.
¶To make an oyle of a redde dogge, by the meane wher∣of (beside other infinite vertues that it bath) I haue bealed a frier of S. Onofres, who had by the space of xij. yeres, a lame and drye withered arme lyke a sticke, so that nature gaue it no more norishement.
To make an oyntment, the most excellent in the worlde, whose vertues are infinite, as we will declare afterwarde. VVhiche, Princes ought to commaunde to be made and kept in their cōmon wealthes: and that it should be made in the presence of Phisitions, as Triacle is made: or at the least eue∣rie man ought to haue it in his house, and speciallie bycause a man may make a great quantite of it: and the lenger it is kept the better it waxeth.
¶A verie true and proued remedie, agaynst a Quar∣tayne ague.
Another secret, or remedie, agaynst the saied disease of the Pleuresye.
Another good secret agaynst the same disease.
Another remedie against the same disease.
To make a water, good for the breast or stomake, of the which men vse to giue them drinke, that be tourmented or greeued with the stitche in the side, or pleuritike Apostumes the whiche water is of a verie good sauour, and mondifieth meruclous well the breast or stomacke.
¶To heale swollen knees or legges, redde, and full of humours: a secrete merueylous good, easie to bee made, and of lytle charge, and often times proued.
A verye sure and perfect remedie agaynst a Sciatica, often tymes proued and experimented in diuers partes of the worlde.
A water for to heale in fiue dayes at the moste, all maner of great skabbes, as well inwarde as outwarde: and is a water cleare and white, and is of an odoriferous sa∣uour, such as a man may present to a Queene.
Another remedie against the same disease.
Another perfect remedie against the same disease, and to make a man pisse that hath bene .iiij. or .iiij. daies without makinge water, and that in the space of half an hower, and will breake the stone within .x. or .xij. daies.
Another remedie agaynst the Stone and payne of the raynes.
The last, and the moste excellent remedie of all, agaynst the stone, be it in the reignes, or in the bladder, of what qua∣lite or quantite, so euer it be.
For him that spittet bloud, by hauing some veyne of his breast broken.
Agaynst the greefe in the Lunges, and spittinge of bloud, a thyng experimented.
Agaynst the paine of te flankes, of the reynes, and all other greefes.
¶Agaynst the stinkinge of the breath.
¶Agaynst the bytyng of a madde dogge, and the rage or madnesse that foloweth the man after he is bitten.
To take a waie the dead flesh, that commeth or groweth in the nose.
For one, which (with falling from some high place) fea∣reth to haue some thinge broken in his body.
A verie good and easie remedie, against the disease, called the Kinges euill.
Another remedie against the same disease.
To know whether a woman, shall euer conceiue or not.
A verie rare remedie for to take the kernels out of a man∣nes throte, in fiftie daies at the frthest.
Another remedie, easier to be made.
A thinge proued, and experimented, to be verie tra against the same disease.
To make the skinne stretch and returne agayne into his place, after the kernell is healed.
A verie exquisite remedie agaynst the disease called in Latyne Augina, and in Greeke Synanche, whiche is an inflamation of the Muscle of the inner Gargill, the French men call it Squinancie, in English Quinsey.
Another agaynst the same disease.
Another agaynst the same sickenesse.
A verye good remedye agaynst the kinges euyll.
To heale the same disease by a substance taken at the mouthe.
A heauenlye water which hath many goodly and ∣table Vertues, as we shall shewe you after.
Pilles of a Meruelous operation and vertu, agaynst the Sciatica, which we promised to speake of in the chapiter of the Sciatica.
☞A notable secrete to heale a madde man, be it that the madnes came vnto hym by a whyrlynge, or giddynesse of the heade or brayne, or otherwyse.
☞Pylles of master Mychael a Scot, the whiche heal the greife or payne of the heade, be it inueterate or recent, purge the brayne, claryfye the syghte, cause a man to haue a good memorye, good colour in face, and be also very good for many infyrmities.
☞Agaynst the payne of wemens breastes, a very excel∣lent remedye.
☞To ripe a felon, Cattes heere, botch, byle, or other apo∣stumes or swellinges, whiche haue nede of quicke and so∣dayne ripinge.
☞To resolue a felon, Cattes beare, byle or botche, at the beginninge.
A goodlye and pleasaunt secrete to beale the cogh, in rubbynge the soles of the feete: and is a thing verye easye, and certayne.
A verye goodly and easye remedie to heale in a daie or twaine, all maner of inueterate and olde woundes, wherein is growen dead and superfluous fleshe, and woundes that can not bee cured by anye other me∣dycynes.
An oyntment to make an apostume breake, and the soore of the plage to fall of.
❀ Another remedy agaynst the plage.
❀ Another very good remedy against the plage.
Another perfecte recept agaynst the plague.
¶Another agaynst the plague.
☞A thing oftentimes proued and experimented against the plague.
❀ A preseruatiue agaynste the plague, oftentymes proued.
Another.
❀ Another.
❀ In a suspecte tyme of a plage.
☞Another well tried and proued agaynste the pestilence.
❀ A very perfyte secrete against the plague.
❀Another very good secrete.
☞To make a carbuncle, and al other botches, apostumes and plague soores to breake, a present remedye and very easy to make.
❀ A very good remedy agaynst the markes of the plage, commonly called Goddes markes.
❀Agaynst the mortalitie of the pestilence, a verye per∣fyt remedie.
☞To make litle rounde apples or balles agaynst the plage.
An oyntment to kill the plage.
A verie perfite oyle against the plage and all poyson.
☞An aduertisement and warnynge of greate im∣portauuce, to preserue a mannes selfe in tyme of pe∣stylence.
☞To dresse and order the Iuyce of Cytrons, for to vse of it as is afore sayde.
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☞To make an odoriferous and sweete water, ve∣rye good.
☞The seconde odoriferous water.
The thyrde sweete water.
☞The fourth sweete water.
☞The fyfte sweete water.
☞The syxte odoriferous water.
☞The seuenth sweete water.
☞The eyght odoriferous water.
☞The nynth sweete water.
☞The tenth odoriferous water.
☞Oyle of Orenges verie excellent.
Oyle of Iasemine, and of violettes.
Oyle of Nutmegges very parfyt.
Oyle of Bengewyne very excellent.
Oyle of Storax very excellent.
Oyle of Myrrhe, good for them that haue their flesshe full of humours, and carraine leane, for to make it tra∣ctable, quicke, naturall, and stronge.
The maner to make that oyles shall neuer waxe moul∣dy, nor putrifie.
❀ Poulder of Iris.
Poulder of Violettes.
A whyte poulder to put in litle bagges.
Poulder of Cypres.
☞Vvhite musked Sope.
Another kinde of odoriferous white Sope.
☞To make Damaskine sope musked.
☞To get out the milke of Macaleb.
☞Poulder of Ciuet verye exquisite.
☞A priucipall poulder.
☞A white odoriferous poulder.
☞A redde poulder.
☞A blacke poulder.
☞Poulder of Cypre verye exquisite.
☞Another waye to make it verie perfecte.
☞A sweete and odoriferous poulder, verie excellent to laye in chestes and cofers.
An odoriferous and swete poulder.
Oyle of Bengewyne.
A very good and odoriferous poulder, to carrye aboute a man, or to lay in coffers.
Balles agaynst the pestilence or plage, whiche also geue an adour vnto all thinges
A princely licour.
Liquide and softe Sope of Naples.
To make the sayde Sope musked.
A very excellent paste and swete, made with Muske, whiche eaten causeth a swete breath.
Another very excellent.
Dentifrices or rubbers for the teeth of great perfection, for to make them cleane.
Oyle of Bengewin odoriferous.
Oyle of Storax calamita.
To make oyle of Labdanum.
Oyle of Nutmegges.
Another maner.
A very exquisyte sope, made of diuers thinges.
☞Sope with Cyuet.
☞Sope with diuers sweete and excellent oyles.
☞Sope rosat.
☞VVhite Sope of a good sauour and odour.
☞Perfect sope.
VVhole and massy blacke sope.
☞Damaske parfume.
☞Another parfume of Damaske.
☞An excellent pomander.
Another Pomaunder.
Another Pomaunder.
Excellent Ipocras.
☞To make litle cusshins of parfumed Roses.
Matches or litle lightes of a very good odour.
A composition of Muske, Ciuet, and Ambergrise.
☞A parfume for a Chaumber very excel∣lent.
Sope of Naples.
Parfume for a Lampe.
A shorte parfume.
☞An odoriferous parfume for chambers.
☞A verie good parfume for to trimme gloues wyth litle cost, and yet will continue longe.
☞A verye exquisite Ciuet to parfume gloues, and to annoynt a mans handes with.
Oyle of Roses and floures, very parfit.
Oyle of Cloues very noble.
☞To make an excellent parfume to parfume Chambers, garmentes, Couelettes, Sheetes, and al other thinges, be∣longinge to any Prince.
☞Rounde apples or balles to take ou spottes of oyle grease.
☞To make a paste for sweete eades or Beadestones.
THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount.
A goodlie secrete for to condite or confyte Orenges, Citrons, and all other fruytes in syrop, whiche is a notable thinge.
☞The maner howe to purifie and prepare honnye and sugre for to confite Cytrons and all other fruites.
☞To confite Peches after the Spanyshe facion.
☞To make Conserue or Confiture of Quinces, called in Latyne Cotoneatum, Cydoniatum or Cydonites, as they dooe in Valence, whiche also the Geneuoyes dooe vse.
☞To make a paste of sugre, whereof a man maye make all maner of fruites, and other fyne thynges, with theyr forme, as platters, dishes, glasses, cuppes, and such like thinges, wherwith you may furnish a ta∣ble: and when you haue doen, eate them vp. A pleasant thing for them that sit at the table.
☞To make a confection of Melons or Pompones.
☞To make Melons and Pompones sweete and verye delicate.
To confyte orenge pilles, whiche may be done at all times of the yeare, and chiefly in Maye, because than the sayd pilles be greater and thicker.
To confyte walnuttes.
To confyte Gourdes.
To confite cheries.
❀To make litle morsels as they vse in Naples, an exquisite thinge, for they be very sauorous, do comforte the stomacke, and make a swete breath.
THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount.
☞An odoriferous and precious water, wherwith a man may weate or bath anye linnen clothe, to wype or rubbe his face, which wil make the flesh white and wel colou∣red: and the more a man rubbeth his face with it the fairer it is, and also continueth .vi. monethes: thing ex∣perimented and proued yea, and it for a quene.
☞To make a water that wyll make a whyte and pale persone well coloured.
☞A verie good water to make the face appeare of the age of .xxv. yeares.
☞A water to beautifie the face, and all other partes of the bodye.
☞A water to make the skinne white, and to take a∣way the sunne burning.
☞Another water to beautifie the face, and to make it appeare of the age of fiftene yeres.
☞An easye water for Ladyes and gentil women.
☞To make a goodly lustre or beautiflynge of the face, good for ladies and dames.
To take out spottes, lentilles, or pimpels of the face.
☞A very good way how to geue a lustre or shew to all distilled water.
To make a water of whyte Melons, that maketh a fair skinne.
To make a very good water of Gourdes, as well garden Gourdes as wilde.
☞An oyntment for the face whiche beinge kepte on, or vsed continually the space of eighte dayes, altereth the skinne and reneweth it finely.
☞For him that hath naturally a redde face.
☞To make aqua argentata or siluered water, which maketh a white ruddie and glistring face and is made like a water and not like an oyntment, that the dames of Italy for the most part do vse, althoughe that fewe men make it as it ought to bee made.
☞To make an oytment for the face.
☞To make a redde colour for the face.
☞To make the face fayre.
☞To make the face faire another waye.
☞To make the face fayre.
☞To take out spottes or redde pimples out of a mans face and to make the skinne very faire.
☞To make a water that maketh the face white.
☞Another maner to make the face fayre.
☞To take of spottes lyntelles or redde pymples out of the face.
To take of a ringe worme or tetter that renneth all ouer a mannes face, called in Frenche Le feu volant.
To dryue a way life.
To make a water that taketh of all stayninge, dying, and spottes from the handes of artificers that gette them by workinge, and maketh them very white and fayre: It is also good for them that be sunne burned.
To make a water that maketh the fleshe and skinne of a man or woman very fayer, and will be kept like a preci∣ous baulme.
☞A verye goodlie water to washe the face, necke, and the breast, whereof a man maye make a greate quantitie, for the more there is of it, the better it is: It maketh the skinne and fleshe of the face fayer, not burtinge or de∣stroyinge the teeth, and shall seme that the face is no∣thinge at all holpen with any coloure, but that it is euen so by nature.
☞To make a very excellente redde colour for the face, whiche is naturall, and continueth longe vpon the face, makinge it alwayes gayer and fairer.
☞Another kinde of redde verye good for the face, ea∣sier to make, and with lesse coste.
☞An excellent white aboue all other,
☞To make heare as yelow as golde.
☞To make lye to washe the head, whiche (besyde that it comforth the braine, and the memorie) maketh the heare long, faire, and yelow, like golde.
☞Lye to make heare blacke.
☞An oyle for to annoynt the heare, which maketh it yelowe lyke golde, long and glystryng lyke burnyshed golde.
☞A very goodly way or maner howe to make yelowe aberne heare, without standinge long or nothing at all in the Sunne, a rare and a verie excellent secrete.
An oyntment to make the heares fall from anye place of the body.
☞An oyle or licoure to make the heare fall of, and may be kepte as longe as a manne wyll: It is also good for all occasions.
An aduertisement or lesson for them that will make the heare fall of.
To cause that the heare shall growe no more or to make them come out thynne and fyne lyke the fyrst soft hea∣re or mosynes of the face.
☞To make a kinde of cloth or plaister to take the heare from the face, necke, and handes, or from anye parte of the bodye.
☞A meruelous secrete, whiche the greate lordes of the Moores dooe vse, whereby they make that theyr children haue no heare vnder their armes, or other place where they wyll. And this secrete founde I in Syria, the yeare 1521. by the meanes of a lorde of the countrey, whose doughter I healed.
☞To make a kinde of cloth, called cloth of Leuant wher∣with women vse to colour their faces.
☞The same another waye.
☞To dye a whyte bearde or heare of the heade in∣to a faire blacke.
❀ A noble and excellent poulder to make cleane the teeth, to make them fast and white, and to conserue the gom∣mes. A better thinge can not be founde, and it were to geue or present to a Quene or Princesse.
To make a very excellente conserue to scoure the teeth, to comforte the gummes, and to make a swete and good breath.
An aduertisement or lesson concerning the making of poul∣ders, and conserues for the teeth.
An excedinge white and good poulder to scoure the teeth, whiche is meeter for lordes and great men, then anye of the other before.
☞A distilled water, excellente for to make the teethe white immediatelye, and to preserue theym wonder∣fully.
☞Three aduertisementes or lessons of importaunce to kepe the teeth white and vncorrupt and also a swete breathe.
❀ A decoction to washe and scoure the mouth, to fasten lose teeth, to consolidate and make sounde the gommes, and to make the fleshe grow agayne if it were decayed or fallen awaye.
THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount.
☞To make perfyt Asure, such as commeth from beyond the seas.
☞To make a fyne confection of graine, called Laeca of grayne.
To dye bones into a greene colour.
Another maner howe to die bones, or Iuorye, into the coloure of an Emeraude.
☞To die bones redde, blewe, or of anye coloure you wyll.
❀A very goodlie secrete to dye or colour woode, of what colour a man will, which some Ioyners do vse that make tables and other thinges of diuers colours, and do esteme it amonge them selues to be of suche excellencie, that one brother will not teache it another.
☞To counterfeyte the blacke woode called Hebenus, or Hebenum, and to make it as fayre as the naturall Hebene, which groweth no where but in India.
To die skynnes blewe, or of the colour of Asure.
To die skinnes in chickweede, called in latin Rubra ma∣iore, or Rubra tinctorum, into a redde colour.
To die skinnes Greene.
Another waye to dye skinnes greene.
❀To die the sayde skinnes greene another waye.
☞Another waye to dye skinnes of Asure coloure, and fayre.
¶Another maner to dye skinnes Greene.
☞To die neates leather into a greene colour, as well in galle as in leaues.
¶To die skines greene with the flowres of Ireos.
❀To die bones in a turkishe or redde colour.
To die hogges brystels and other things, for to make rubbers and brusshes.
☞To dye the saied bristels yellowe, greene, or blewe, or any other colour.
☞To make a purple, whiche is a coloure wherewith men vse to make a coloure lyke golde, for to paynte and wryte with.
☞To make Lacca of Brasyll.
☞To make white tables to wryte in with the poynt of a wyre, suche as come out of Germany.
☞To make roset, or ruddle.
☞To gylt ouer parchement, leather or other such work, which men vse in steade of hanginges, or tapistry.
☞To dye Crimson sylke.
To prepare and trymme Brasyll, for to make of it four diuers colours.
☞To make roset of Brasyll another waye.
☞To make beyonde sea Asure, without Lapis Lauli.
☞To make a grene colour to write or paynt with.
☞To braye fyne golde, wherewith a man maye write, or paynt with a pensyll.
☞The same another waye.
☞Another waye with Purpurine.
¶To make a grounde to gylt vpon, with burnished golde.
☞To laye or settle golde with a single grounde.
❀Another waye to laye on golde.
To make colours of all kynde of metalles.
To laye golde on a blacke bottome or grounde.
☞To make letters of the colour of golde, without golde.
❀To make syluer letters without syluer.
❀To make greene letters.
To make white letters in a blacke feilde.
To make a greene colour for to write and paynt withall.
☞To trimme and dresse Asure.
☞To dresse or trimme Cinabrium, for to wryte or paynt with.
☞A grounde to laye golde vpon anye mettall or yron.
☞To gylte the edges of bookes.
☞To kepe whites of egges as longe as a man will with∣out corruptinge, and without putting Arsenick to it. A secrete not muche knowen.
❀ The maner howe to make the grounde or foundation for Indicum.
Another perfyt grounde for the same thinge.
☞A goodlye waye howe to make Golde and Syluer in poulder, a thinge easye to be done, and there wyll come of it an excellent coloure. This is a verye rare se∣crete, whiche hath not bene vsed nor knowen vntyll this present.
☞To make a verye fayre Vernix, to vernishe the saied golde, and all other workemanshippe.
To bray or break golde or syluer easely after the comes maner that the best workmasters do vse.
To make a lycoure, that maketh a golden coloure with∣out golde.
❀ Another licour of the colour of Golde, for to wryte and to gylte yron, woode, glasse, bone, and other lyke thynges.
☞Another goodly licour, to make a golden coloure with little cost, and is a thinge easye to be doen.
☞To make yncke, or a colour to wryte with, in a verye good perfection.
A good waye and maner howe to make incke for to car∣ry about a man in a drie poulder, whiche (whan he wil write with) he must temper with a little wyne, water, or vynaiger or with some other licour, and than he may incontinent put it in experience. Vvyth the said poulder all other incke maye be amended, be it neuer so euill.
❀ To make a great deale of yncke quickly, and with li∣tle coste.
❀To make Printers Incke.
☞To make yncke so white, that although a man write with it vpon white paper, it may easelye and perfytlye be redde. A very goodly thinge.
☞To make a poulder to take of blottes of yncke, fal∣len vpon the paper, or elles the letters and wrytinge from the paper: whiche is a rare secrete, but yet profy∣table.
To make a kinde of vernish, but much fayrer, and bet∣ter than that whiche Scriuenars do vse; and is of lesse cost, and stinketh not as other vernish doeth.
☞To make incke to rule paper for to write by, wher of the writinge being drie, the liues maye so be▪ taken out, that it shall seeme ye haue written without lines.
THE Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemount.
☞To sublime Quicke Syluer, that is to saye, to make common sublyme, that Goldsmithes, Alebemistes, and Gentil wemen do vse, and that men vse in many thinges concerninge Phisycke.
☞To make Cinabrium, and thereof to make loaues of a hundreth or two hundreth poundes, as great as a man list as those are that come oute of Almayne, whiche secrete hath not before this tyme bene knowen of anye in Italy.
☞To fyne and renewe Borax.
☞A good and easye waye to make Aqua fortis, better then any other.
☞The true and perfyte practise to caste medalles, and all other workemanshyppe, as well in brasse, as in gold, Syluer, Copper, Leade, Tynne, as of Crystall, Glasse, and Marble.
☞The fyrste earth to caste in a moulde all maner of fu∣sible mater.
¶The second earth or sande.
☞The thirde earth, or sande.
☞The fourth earth or sande.
❀The fyft earth, and the most parfyt.
❀The syxte earth.
☞A goodlye waye and maner howe to make all these earthes verye fyne, and small, and almooste impalpable.
☞To make a water called Magistra, wherewith the sayed earthes to make mouldes is tempered, and moy∣sted agayne at euery castinge and foundinge.
☞To make Lutum sapientiae verye parfytie.
❀ Certayne thinges, whiche he that will take in hande any foundinge or castinge of metalles, must alwayes haue readye, and in ordre.
☞The maner or order that a man ought to kepe, whre e wyll cast or founde medalles, or any other thinge.
☞To make a white, to blaunche and make white me∣dalles, or other thinges newlye molten, and also for to renewe medalles of olde syluer.
¶To gylt yron with water.
❀ The lyke another waye
☞To gylte yron with golde foile, and water, or elles with golde mixte with Quicke Syluer, as goldsmythes are wont to gilte siluer.
¶To die or coloure into the colour of brasse, or also to gylte Syluer, whiche sheweth better, and continueth longer.
☞A water or colour to laye vnder Diamondes, as well true as counterfeite, that is to saye, made of white Sa∣phyres, as we wyll declare afterwarde.
☞To counterfayte a Diamonde, with a white Saphyre.
☞To ingrosse thinne Ballesses to set in ringes.
☞To make Rubies of twoo pieces, and Emeraudes, as they make them at Mylan.
❀ To make a paste or dowe for precious stones, as Emeraul¦des, Rubies, Saphyrs, and such like, which be but of one piece, well coloured within and without.
❀ To make Emerauldes, and other stones or Iewelles.
❀ To calcine or burne Crystall and the calcidoyne stone, to put in the saied mixtions of precious stones.
☞A water to harden the saied stones.
☞To calcine fyne syluer.
☞The second maner of Calcininge syluer.
☞The thirde maner of calcining syluer.
To calcine Talcum quickly out of hande.
☞An excellent and very easy waye to gilte yron, cop∣per, and syluer, to make it seeme lyke massyue golde.
☞A parfyt maner and waye to gilte, and to make the quick syluer to vanish away from the thinge gylted.
¶Here foloweth the Table of all the secretes conteined in this present volume.