The art of limming [3v]
hares foote, and rubbe all away, save it which cleaveth to the sise, & if ther be any place faultie, so that the gold faile for drynesse of the sise, then weat it agayne and lay on the golde, and dry it and burnish it as you did before.
To make gum water to temper colours withall.
Take cleane water, & do it in a vessel & put therto a portion
of gumine Arabec & iet it stand untill the gum be wel dissolved and molten in the water, but looke it be not over thick of gum, for then it is evill to worke with, and if it be too thin of gum, then will the colour fade and fall of, therfore keepe a meane & temper thy colours therwith, such as it serveth for best. Note the best gumme is cleare and brittle that in stamping it, it beccommeth pouder easily without cleaving together
[marg: Nota.]
To make glayre for the like purpose
Take the white of new layde egges as manye as you thinke good, and strayne them through a linnen cloth to take out the cocke treadinges, then put them in a dish and wring them through a fpong or a white woollen cloth untill they be as thin as water, then wash the sponge or cloth, and drye it. And put the glaire to thuse aforesayd in a stone pot, or a glasse salt stopped spend it as soone as ye can, for it will not keepe above three dayes, but it will have an ill savour, ercept they beordred as followeth.
¶To keepe whites of egges as long as ye will, without corrupting or putting of Arsnik to them
Take the wihtes of egges, not breaking them in any wise, but take out the cocktreading, and putto them as much of the best white vineger as shall suffyse the quantie
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The art of lymming 4[r]
tie of the whites, leaving it so the space of two dayes, then passe it through some linnen cloth without breaking 0r beating the the white of the egges leaving it so the space of viii. Days then strayne it agayne, and put it in a viall well stopped, to occupie for the purposes above written.
¶To temper golde or silver wherwith you may write with a pen or paynt with a pensill.
Take five or fire leaves of beaten golde or silver, and grund them well and finely on a paynters stone with a little hony, then put it into a glasse with a quantity of faire water, & let in stand one night, then drane the water and the hony afterward from the golde, & put to the gold gum water, and then write with it, and when it is drye, burnish it with an ore tooth. Also if ye grind your leaves of gold with glayre only without hony putting to it, you maye wel write therwith in adding to it a little gumme water, and with your golde tempered in manner abovesayde you may diaper with a small pen 0r pensill upon colours. If you wil buy at the Poticaries the gold or shel silver, with the which (being tempered with gumme water) you may very well write with a pen, or paynt with a pensill.
[marg: Gold & Sylver. / Diaper. Shell gold and shell silver.]
To temper Azure or byze
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