The Manuscript „Miscellanea“ 992 contains recipes for all kind of colours, to liquefy gum arabic, to illuminate, to prepare cinnabar, to gild book papers, to make acqua forte, different kinds of varnishes, to write with gold, to make very fine ink, to make paper as transparent as glass, how to make bone in different colours and soft as wax, to print and paint on glass and to gild on glass, to make sheer white lead, to make undulating turkish paper in several colours, etc.
It begins with: De colori in generale...
it ends with: che riuscirà mirabile.