Record General Original language: english Date information Year: 1595 transl_trans Transcription To lay gold on a black bottom or ground ‘Take the smoke of a Lamp, and pun or braie it well with the oile of Line, or of walnuts. And when you will laie the gold upon the said ground, let it not be neither too moist nor to drie.’ Source Library/ Place of edition Title Year Starting date End date Display order [The Secrets of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piedmont, containing excellent remedies against diverse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions and meltings.] 1595 Page number(s) in source: 90Part: first part Glossary Historical name Current name blacke gold Gold ground oile of lineseed smoke of a Lamp