Cum membrana vermiculum | ARTECHNE database

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REC:2478

Original language:

Latin

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Transcription

[XI]
Cum membrana vermiculum vel minium inposueris ad formandum capitales litteras, habeto pennam bene fissam, non solum autem ad istum colorem, verum etiam et ad azorium. ad viridem vero colorem minus sit fissa eo, quod tenuiter inponitur. <cartula> etenim sive aliud scribitur aliquod, instrumentum, super quod scribitur, non sit oppido arduum, et si hoc est, quod scriptura, quam coloraturus es, sit nimis confecta de illa petra, quae creta dicitur, sicuti a nonnullis scriptoribus solet fieri, expelle eam foras de scriptura, feriendo duriter in pergameno; exinde namque albescit omnis color, quin etiam inpedimentum maximum pennae facit scribae, ita ut ipsa non possit ire in pergameno. sed tu parum frica digito locum ipsum, ubi fabricaturus es litteram.

Translation

When you are lying vermilion or minium on a skin to make capital letters, have a well-slit quill; not only for that colour, but for the blue as well; but for the green colour it may be slit less, because that is laid thinner. Do not let the shelf or any other structure upon which it is written be too steep. And if the writing which you are about to paint proves to have been treated too freely with the mineral known as chalk, as is the practice of a good many writers, remove it from the writing by striking hard upon the parchment, for it turns every colour pale, and hinders the scribe´s pen greatly, so much so, indeed, that it cannot move over the parchment. But rub a little bit with your finger wherever you are going to make a letter.

Source

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