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Below is a basic semi-diplomatic transcription of two recipes for black ink taken from Giles Lodge's Lute | Below is a basic semi-diplomatic transcription of two recipes for black ink taken from [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&hd=1,1&CallBrowse=18&SEQ=20150512165105&PID=Kwh2EaL0NWhUedOFYv-Kq4ZxQtkE&SID=1 Giles Lodge's Lute Book]. These transcriptions were originally created as part of the [[Practical Paleography]] Series, sponsored by [[Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)|EMMO]]. <br> | ||
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To make black incke flourish <br> | To make black incke flourish <br> | ||
Take a gallon of raine water or worte, & <br> | Take a gallon of raine water or worte, & <br> | ||
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Gumme bladder & hange it in a smocke vntill it be <br> | Gumme bladder & hange it in a smocke vntill it be <br> | ||
drye, & it will be gumme for incke. <br> | drye, & it will be gumme for incke. <br> | ||
61r | 61r <br> | ||
To make read incke . flourish f..i <br> | To make read incke . flourish f..i <br> | ||
ffirst make oyle with the whitt of a nege, as <br> | ffirst make oyle with the whitt of a nege, as <br> |
Revision as of 15:54, 12 May 2015
Below is a basic semi-diplomatic transcription of two recipes for black ink taken from Giles Lodge's Lute Book. These transcriptions were originally created as part of the Practical Paleography Series, sponsored by EMMO.
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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 gummes 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 gumme for incke
Take the whittes of egges & put them in a
Gumme bladder & hange it in a smocke vntill it be
drye, & it will be gumme for incke.
61r
To make read incke . flourish f..i
ffirst make oyle with the whitt of a nege, as
this, Take the whyet of a nege & with a locke
of fine whitt woll wringe hit thorow vj or
vij times vntill ye se that all the 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 with a sponge & wringe hit thorow as
befor. Now take vermelon & grind hit apon
a marble stone drye with a moller halfe a quartr
of an hower, then put to a litle of your oyle
& grind hit as mutch longer with the oyle, &
yf ye take paine to grind your vermelon an
hower ye shalbe most surest to haue your
incke myche the fyner, for all the masterye of