Giles Lodges lute book miscellany, V.a.159

Below To make black incke flourish​​
Take a gallon of raine water or worte, &
put in hit a pounde of gaull a pound of gumm​​
halfe a pound of grene coperas, & stear them​ Blacke incke ​to gether everye day, yower gaull most be brocke in great peces, & yower gumm​​es most be put in ij or iij dayes after yower stuffe & lett hit be storyd everye daye for the space of an wecke, & whan it hathe stande a moneth it will be good. To make gumm​​e for incke​ Take the whittes of egges & put them​ in a Gumm​​e​ bladder & hange it in a smocke vntill it be drye, & it will be gumm​​e for incke. 61r​ To make read incke ​. flourish ​f..i ffirst make oyle wi​t​h​ the whitt of a nege, as this, Take th​e ​whyet of a nege & with a locke of fine whitt woll wringe hit thorow vj or vij times vntill ye se th​a​t​ all th​e​ whit is turned to water & will drope from the wooll, then is Readd ​incke​ hit fine oyle. Or els ye may take vpe the whitt wi​t​h​ a sponge & wringe hit thorow as befor. Now take vermelon & grind hit apon a marble stone drye wi​t​h​ a moller halfe a qu​a​rtr of an hower, then put to a litle of you​r ​oyle & grind hit as mutch longer wi​t​h ​the oyle, & yf ye take paine to grind you​r​ vermelon an hower ye shalbe most surest to haue you​r​ incke myche the fyner, for all th​e​ masterye of​