DE CLAREA | ARTECHNE database

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REC:2468

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Latin

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Transcription

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Sciendum est igitur, duo esse genera clarearum, unum, quod verberando, aliud, quod quassando fit. quassatum valde verberato fragilius sive infirmius est, inmundum etiam eo, quod saepius quassatum vel transductum per lanam seu per staminium ab imprimentis manu sordem sumit, dum saepius polluitur per manus, cum imprimentis digitos circueat. qui vero experimento quaerit ista agnoscere, adhibeat unum et aliud genus, scilicet verberatam et quassatam claream et perspiciet, quam limpidissima sit una et altera turbida. ergo ne diutius immoremur vituperando seu laudando quodlibet eorum, de utiliore, quod Deus dederit, dicamus, qui artifex et largitor omnium artium est.

Translation

So you should realise that there are two kinds of glair, one of which is made by beating and the other by pressing. The one made by pressing is considerably more brittle or weak than the beaten kind, and is, moreover, contaminated, since, being repeatedly squeezed or filtered through wool or cloth, it picks up dirt from the hand of the person who presses it; while it is contaminated again and again by the hand as it runs over the fingers of the presser. And anyone who wants to convince himself of this by experiment may try out each sort, that is, the beaten glair and the squeezed variety, and he will see plainly how very clear the former is, and how turbid the latter; so now, not to dwell at greater length on disparaging or extolling either of them, let us discuss the more useful one, which is the gift of God, the Master and Dispenser of all crafts.

Source

Library/ Place of edition	Title	Year	Starting date	End date	Display order
Bern, Kantonbibliothek	A. 91. 17, De Clarea		XIth (1H.)