The Craft of Lymmyng and The Maner of Steynyng
Middle English Recipes for Painters, Stainers, Scribes, and Illuminators
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 November 2016
- ISBN 9780198789086
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages375 pages
- Size 222x141x48 mm
- Weight 860 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 black and white halftones 0
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Short description:
This edition presents a collection of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, illuminators, and scribes. Most of the texts are published here for the first time, and many were previously unknown.
MoreLong description:
This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown. The collection contains 125 sets of recipes (around 1500 individual recipes), taken from 95 manuscripts, and forms the largest published corpus of such recipes in any language.
These anonymous craft recipes describe the preparation of materials, outline their uses, advise on decorative effects, and confide tricks of the trade. In addition to recipes for conventional painting and illuminating are a number for 'staining' (figurative painting on cloth) which provide the only practical information on this one widely-practised, but now lost, English medium. The editor also identifies for the first time the earliest surviving recipes for block printing on textiles. The recipes are professional in origin, but were subsequently taken over by amateurs and encyclopaedists. Household recipes for colouring wax, fishing lines, hair, and food complete the collection.
Most of the texts were originally composed in English; few are translated from pre-existing material. They are a valuable record of Middle English technical vocabulary, much of it previously unrecorded.
The collection should appeal to a wide range of disciplines: students of medieval English, medieval historians, historians of fine art, and professional conservators, including those engaged in museum studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Trinity Encyclopaedist
The Trinity Encyclopaedist
Part 2: Typical Collections
Limning A
Early (mid-s.XV) How --ou schalt temper --i colourus to lymninge, and how --ou schal make a syse to kowche golt on bokus.
Late (late s.XV-early s.XVI) Here begynnythe the crafte of lymmyng. Fyrtse howe thow shalte temper al thy colors to lymme with bokes, and how --u shalte make a syse to cowche gold or syluer.
Limning B
The makyng of colours for to lymne with bokys.
The crafte of lymnynge of bokys, with To dy selke.
Staining A
--e maner of steynyng of lynne clo--, with Watres for steynours.
Staining B
Steyning and --e maner of doyng.
Limning C and Staining C
A tretys --at tochith to make diuerse ynkes and diuerse waterys to coloure whyth.
Part 3: Individual manuscripts
Larger collections
Remainders of Part 1 and Part 2 MSS
Smaller collections
Isolated ink recipes
Part 4: Exceptional items
Unusual recipes
Secretum philosophorum analogues
Ciphered recipes
Dyes for fishing lines
Cookery colours from BL Sloane 122
Extracts from Albertus Magnus Mirror of Light
Concordances
Commentary
Appendices
The sixteenth century: an overview
Impossible recipes
Extracts from Secretum philosophorum
Extracts from De coloribus et mixtionibius
Glossary
