List of ink recipes and ink and paper references

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This page contains a list of ink recipes and ink and paper references from Folger manuscripts. The list was compiled on June 14, 2022 from searching the digital image transcription collection for variant spellings of the word ink (ink, inke, inck, incke, ynk, ynke, ynck, and yncke) and searching manuscript catalog records' notes for "ink". This page will be updated as new resources become available.

List of ink recipes

Call number Page number Manuscript date Recipe title Image/Transcription
V.a.125 fol 2v-3r ca. 1630 To make Ink V.a.125 2v-3r.jpg
V.a.140 5v-6r ca. 1600 To make red yncke V.a.140 5v-6r.jpg
V.a.140 10v-11r ca. 1600 To make very good blacke yncke V.a.140 10v-11r.jpg
V.a.140 51v-52r ca. 1600 index entry V.a.140 51v-52r.jpg
V.a.159 73v-74v ca. 1571-1600 To make blacke Incke
To make Inkes of divers Cullors
V.a.159 73v-74r.jpg
V.a.159 77v-78r ca. 1571-1600 To make excellent Blacke Inke V.a.159 77v-78r.jpg
V.a.159 78v-79r ca. 1571-1600 Blacke Inke V.a.159 78v-79r.jpg
V.a.260 18v-19r ca.1613-c.1756 To make the best Inke
A Receipt to make Ink
https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3cnu46
V.a.260 55v-56r ca.1613-c.1756 To make Iapan Ink V.a.260 55v-56r.jpg
V.a.347 193v 1616-1617 To make black inke V.a.347 193v.jpg
V.a.396 6v-7r 1671, 1674/75 index entry V.a.396 6v-7r.jpg
V.a.396 74v-75r 1671, 1674/75 To make Ink V.a.396 74v-75r.jpg
V.a.401 Part II, pages 18-19 1693-1694 To make Ink V.a.401 ptII 18-19.jpg
V.a.430 pages 42-43 ca. 1640-1750 To make=Inke=Verie Good V.a.430 42-43.jpg
V.a.430 pages 95-96 ca. 1640-1750 To make Inke the Spanish Waye Viz https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/77jg84
V.a.430 pages 103-104 ca. 1640-1750 To make double Incke kalled In ffrench an[c]re Luisante https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/77jg84
V.a.452 154 ca. 1675 Ink to make V.a.452 154.jpg
V.a.452 155 (recto of insertion after page 154) ca. 1675 Another way to make Ink
Red Ink
V.a.452 155.jpg
V.a.452 156 (verso of insertion after page 154) ca. 1675 Another way V.a.452 155.jpg
V.a.452 page [462] ca. 1675 index entry V.a.452 -462-.jpg
V.a.458 pages 4-5 ca.1650-ca.1700 To Mak ingInke V.a.458 4-5.jpg
V.a.563 page 113 17th-18th centuries To Mak Red Ink
To Make blw Ink
V.a.563 113.jpg
V.a.563 page 114 17th-18th centuries To Make a green Ink
To Make a yellow Inke
V.a.563 114.jpg
V.a.563 [page 139] 17th-18th centuries Mr Ioans Rare Receipt to make Ink V.a.563 -139-.jpg
V.a.619 99v-100r ca. 1675? To make Blacke Inke
To make Readd Inke
V.a.619 99v-100r.jpg
V.a.630 pages xviii-xix ca. 1675-ca. 1686 index entry V.a.630 xviii-xix.jpg
V.a.630 pages 218-219 ca. 1675-ca. 1686 To make Inke
Dr Lustington Inke
V.a.630 218-219.jpg
V.a.630 pages 220-221 ca. 1675-ca. 1686 To make Inke V.a.630 220-221.jpg
V.a.630 pages 222-223 ca. 1675-ca. 1686 Cockers way of making Red Inke
To write with Shell Gold or Silver
V.a.630 222-223.jpg
V.a.630 pages 224-225 ca. 1675-ca. 1686 black Inke. Cocker. V.a.630 224-225.jpg
V.a.683 page 18 bulk: 1709-1727? Black Ink
Red Ink
Yellow Ink
London black Powder Ink
Shining Iapan Ink
V.a.683 18.jpg
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