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Title: A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.
Print source: A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.
Phillip, William,, W. P., fl. 1618,
London: Printed by Adam Islip for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north dore of Pouls, at the signe of the Gun, 1596.
Notes:
Ettliche Künste, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten. English.
W.P. = William Phillip.
Part 1 is a translation of: Ettliche Küntse, auff mancherley Weisz Dinten und allerhand Farben zu bereyten.
Italian original of part 2 not traced.
Signatures: A-E4.
The first leaf has an arabesque pattern on the recto, but no text.
Reproduction of the original in the the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Subject terms:
Colors -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Early works to 1800.
Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16436.0001.001
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¶ A Booke of Secrets, shewing di∣uers waies to make and prepare all sorts of Inke and colours.
To make Inke to write vpon paper.
To make Inke for parchment.
Another sort of Inke.
Another of the same sort, but easie to make.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another.
To make inke vpon a suddaine, to serue in an extremitie.
To keepe Inke that it sinketh not into the paper neither that it come not off, and that moths nor mise hurt not the paper.
To write without inke, that it may not be seen, vnlesse the paper be wet with water.
To take Inke out of paper or parchment.
Otherwise.
Of red colour, and first of Brasill.
To seeth Brasill another way.
Another red colour.
Purple colour.
To make Rosin.
Another Rosin.
Fire colour.
Tawny colour.
Yellow colour.
Another good yellow.
Another yellow.
Otherwise.
Auripigmentum.
Greene colour.
A faire greene colour.
To temper or prepare Verdigreece.
To make good greene.
Blew colour.
To make Azure.
To temper or prepare Azure.
A faire blew.
White colour. To write with chalke out of a pen vpon blacke ta∣bles or paper.
To make chalke of egshels.
A good white colour.
Gold colours.
Otherwise.
You must temper it thus.
Argentum Musicum.
To write a gold colour.
To write with gold out of a pensill.
To write all mettals out of the pen.
A good gold colour.
To lay gold vpon any thing.
To lay gold vpon glasse.
How to graue in yron and steel, or in other mettals with strong water.
Another way to graue with water.
Another way, but more piercing.
To colour quils and parchment of diuers colors.
To die quils greene.
Red quils.
Yellow quils.
Blacke quils.
To colour parchment and velim of diuers colors.
Certaine Instructions for ordering of Wines: Shewing how to make Wine, that it may continue good and faint not, Neither become sower, nor loose colour. And how you may remedie faint Wine, take away the hoari∣nesse, with other instructions for the pre∣seruation of the same.
Of the preparation for the Vintage, or gathering in of the grapes, where Wine is made.
Of the time when the vintage or gathe∣ring of grapes should be.
How grapes should be gathered and dressed to make wine.
How to purge wine, that is made of soure grapes.
To cure the wine that is faulty by reason of raine water fallen vpon it.
How to put Must into the vessels.
How you must keepe Must all the yeare.
How to know if there be water in the wine or Must, and how to seperate the one from the other.
When you shall draw or rack wine, and open the vessels.
What time and how you shall tast wine.
How to know wines that will indure and continue long.
Of diuers infections that happen vnto wine.
At what time wine doth soone change, and corrupt.
How to preuent the changing of wine.
An excellent infection to preserue wine, which is called Panaccia.
To keepe wine from changing.
How to remedie wine that is changed.
How wine and the vessels are preserued from hoarines.