November 26, 2018
Angel Jiang
Category | Terms Used (French) | Terms Used (English) | Title | Folio | Recipe (French) | Recipe (English) |
Matrix | pierre | stone | Mirouers d'acier / Steel Mirrors | 5r | Ils s’appellent d’acier pource que communem{ent} le temps passé on les faisoict d’acier poly avecq potée d’esmery. Mays plus facilement il s’en faict de diverses sortes avecq le cuivre franc, qui est rosette, & l’estain, pource qu’il se gecte en moule & se faict rond, cave, convexe & comme on veult pour representer diverses formes. Prens doncq moictié cuivre de rosette & moictié estain doux, c’est à dire fin, qui n’a poinct encores servi. Et les mects dans un creuseau, & premiere{ment} fais bien fondre le cuivre. Et estant bien fondu, mects l’estain dedans et mesle ensemble. Puys gecte dans le moule, de pierre blanche poinct oeilletee, & oints le moule d’huile, & qu’il soict mediocrement chault. Puys ayant moulé ton mirouer, tu le pourras polir en ceste sorte. Enchassés en un dans du plastre affin qu’il tienne ferme, & puys mectés l’aultre par dessus avecq du sable menu entre deulx, & frottés l’ung contre l’aultre, soict cave ou plat, & ainsi tu en poliras deux ensemble. Et si tu les veulx polir des deulx costés, il ne les fault que rechanger, sçavoir mectre celuy qui polissoict dans le plastre & de celuy qui estoict dans le plastre en polir. Aprés les avoir polis avecq l’arene, tu les pourras adoulcir avecq le tripoli de Venise, qui ne soict poinct sablonneux, & aprés avecq de la potee. Tu polis d’arene avecq de l’eau, mays le polissement de tripoli & potee se faict à sec. Estant poly, tu le peulx enchasser. | They are called of steel because in the past they were commonly made of steel polished with potée of emery. But more easily, various kinds are made of cuivre franc, which is rosette, and tin, because this can be cast in a mold & made round, concave, convex & however you like, to produce various forms. So take half of rosette copper & half of soft tin, that is to say fine, which has not yet been used. Put them in a crucible, & first melt the copper well. And once it is well melted, put in the tin and mix together. Then cast in the mold, of white stone with no eyelets, & grease the mold with oil, & let the mold be moderately warm. Then, having molded your mirror, you can polish it in this manner. Set one of these in plaster in order that it holds firmly, & then put the other one over it with thin sand in between, & rub one against the other, whether hollow or flat, & thus you will polish two at once. And if you want to polish them on both sides, you only need to switch them, which means putting the one that was polishing into the plaster & using the one that was in the plaster to polish. After having polished them with the arene you can soften them with tripoli of Venice, which should not be sandy, & after with potée. You polish with arene using water, but polishing with tripoli & potée is done dry. Once polished, you can set it. |
Matrix | pierre porte morte | pierre porte morte | Pintiers | 28v | Pour mouler de plats & escuelles, ilz les font de pierre porte morte, qui est grais, & les tournent & polissent aultour au tour. | To mold platters & dishes, they make them out of pierre porte morte, that is from grais, & they shape &polish around them on the wheel. |
Matrix | pierre | stone | Plomb, estaim | 48v | Ilz s'esgrissent estant souvent ou long temps remis à fondre et s'espessissent et se bruslent, de sorte que mesmes quand on font un saulmon, l'estaim s'espessit au fonds si en gectant on ne le remue souvent. Il est mieulx pour gecter de fondre peu de plomb & le ou d'estaim & le remuer renouveller à chasque fonte. L'antimoyne les rend frangibles. L'estain de glace les blanchist. On Les pintiers mectent sur lestaim fin une lb d'estaim de glace sur un quintal d'estain fin & deulx lb & demye ou trois lb de cuivre rouge & doulx de chauldron, qui est meilleur que le letton. Il y a estaim fin & doulx & estaim aigre. L'aigre se gecte en grille par les pintiers pour mieulx le vendre. O Ilz viennent mieulx & plus net en moules de pierre qu'en moule de cuivre pource que le cuivre est gras & attire sinon qu’on chaufe fort le molle, {ou} qu'on gecte grand ouvraige. Trois quarts de plomb sur une lb d'estaim doulx faict une ligne fort liquide & propre au gect & qui ha lustre comme mirouer. L’axunge de verre les esclarcist. Et toutes choses qui esclarcissent fort les metaulx & leur oste l'espesseur & nature dense & les rend comme liquides comme eau, les rend propres au gect, car c'est l'espesseur qui les garde de courre. L'estaim doulx est plus uny com que l'aigre, qui est plus blanc et semble estre bruny co{mm}e un mirouer. Pour bien allier l'estain & le plomb, il en fault fondre un tout seul et puys y mesler l'aultre à petits lopins à chasque foys, et le gecter souvent sur le mabre ou quarreau. Et lorsque tu le verras venir bien uny co{mm}e & luisant co{mm}e s'il estoit bruny, il est bien. Car quelque foys il vient taché pour trop de plomb & quelque foys pour trop d'estaim. Il y a de l'estain qui porte plus de plomb l'ung que l'aultre. L'estaim commun est celuy qui est meslé de plomb. | They become brittle having been put back to melt often or for a long time, and they thicken and burn, in such a way that even when one melts a saulmon, the tin thickens at the bottom if, while casting, one does not stir it often. It is best for casting to melt a little lead & the or tin & stir to renew at each melting. The antimony renders them breakable. The looking glass tin whitens them. One Pewterers put in on the fine tin one lb of looking glass tin per one quintal of fine tin & two lb & a half or three lb of red & soft copper of cauldrons, which is better than latten. There is fine & soft tin & brittle tin. The brittle one is cast in grille by the pewterers to sell it better. O They come out better & more neatly in stone molds than in a copper mold, because copper is fat & sticks unless one heats the mold well or one casts large works. Three quarters of lead per one lb of doux tin, makes a very liquid line & proper for casting, which has a shine like a mirror. Sandever lightens them. All things that thoroughly lighten metals & remove their thickness & dense nature & render them like liquid like water, render them proper for casting, for it is the thickness that prevents them from running. doux tin is more even com than the brittle one, which is whiter and seems to be burnished like a mirror. To alloy well tin & lead, one needs to melt one by itself, and then mix in the other, small pieces at a time, and throw it often on the marble or the square tile. And when you will see it become quite even like & shiny as if it were burnished, it is good. For sometimes it becomes spotted due to too much lead & sometimes due to too much tin. There is some tin which takes more lead than another. Common tin is the one that is mixed with lead. |
Matrix | en pierre | in stone | Gect de plomb / Casting of lead | 49r | Ceulx qui gectent ces petits ouvrages qui se vendent devant les eglises, y fondent une sur une lb d'estaim, demy de plomb, & gectent en pierre, & s'ilz veulent leur ouvrage plus blanc, ilz mectent la p moictié d'estain & moictié de plomb, mays la premiere mixtion est la meilleure & ne soufle poinct. Il la fault gecter assés chault, car aultrem{ent} elle ne couleroit pas. Aulcuns fument leur moulle avecq une chandelle de rousine pour gecter nect. L'antimoyne faict la matiere brusque & rompante. L'estain de glace faict l'ouvraige plus blanc, mays non pas plus coulant, quand à l'estain, s’i faict bien a les au plomb pur. Ceulx qui font les gects de plomb bien nects se servent de poinçons. Les pintiers gectent en moulle de cuivre. On dict qu'on faict prendre le plomb sur le verre avecq de la rousine. Aulcuns mectent sur le plomb un quart d'estain. L'estain de glace rend l'ouvrage plus fort. Loppe de fer Coquille de fer huitre calcinée. Poncet Ils gectent de souldure de quoy les pintiers vitriers se servent. | Those who cast those small works that are sold in front of churches, y melt one for one lb of tin half a pound of lead, & cast in stone, & if they want their work whiter, they put p half tin and half lead, but the first mixture is the best, & does not become porous. One needs to cast it rather hot, for otherwise, it would not flow. Others smoke their molds with a resin candle to cast neatly. The antimony makes the substance brittle & breakable. The looking-glass tin makes the work whiter, but not more runny; as for tin, it is good to the with pure lead. Those who make very neat lead casts, use bodkins. Pewterers cast in a copper mold. One says that one makes the lead take hold on the glass with resin. Some put into the lead a quarter of tin. Looking glass tin renders the work stronger. Lump of iron Calcined iron oyster shell. Poncet. They cast with soldering that pewterers glass-makers use. |
Matrix | en pierre | in stone | Pintiers / Pewterers | 49r | Ceulx qui gectent ces petits ouvrages qui se vendent devant les eglises, y fondent une sur une lb d'estaim, demy de plomb, & gectent en pierre, & s'ilz veulent leur ouvrage plus blanc, ilz mectent la p moictié d'estain & moictié de plomb, mays la premiere mixtion est la meilleure & ne soufle poinct. Il la fault gecter assés chault, car aultrem{ent} elle ne couleroit pas. Aulcuns fument leur moulle avecq une chandelle de rousine pour gecter nect. L'antimoyne faict la matiere brusque & rompante. L'estain de glace faict l'ouvraige plus blanc, mays non pas plus coulant, quand à l'estain, s’i faict bien a les au plomb pur. Ceulx qui font les gects de plomb bien nects se servent de poinçons. Les pintiers gectent en moulle de cuivre. On dict qu'on faict prendre le plomb sur le verre avecq de la rousine. Aulcuns mectent sur le plomb un quart d'estain. L'estain de glace rend l'ouvrage plus fort. Loppe de fer Coquille de fer huitre calcinée. Poncet Ils gectent de souldure de quoy les pintiers vitriers se servent. | Those who cast those small works that are sold in front of churches, y melt one for one lb of tin half a pound of lead, & cast in stone, & if they want their work whiter, they put p half tin and half lead, but the first mixture is the best, & does not become porous. One needs to cast it rather hot, for otherwise, it would not flow. Others smoke their molds with a resin candle to cast neatly. The antimony makes the substance brittle & breakable. The looking-glass tin makes the work whiter, but not more runny; as for tin, it is good to the with pure lead. Those who make very neat lead casts, use bodkins. Pewterers cast in a copper mold. One says that one makes the lead take hold on the glass with resin. Some put into the lead a quarter of tin. Looking glass tin renders the work stronger. Lump of iron Calcined iron oyster shell. Poncet. They cast with soldering that pewterers glass-makers use. |
Matrix | en pierre d’Istre | in stone from Istre | Mouler fort tanvre co{mm}e font les bimbalotiers / Molding very thin like bimbalotiers do | 169v | Ils moulent en papier & carton, car ne la terre, sable ou metal ne mouleroient pas si net, & ne recepvroient pas. Ou bien ilz gravent en pierre d’Istre le principal endroit, & le revers est de papierou carton. | They mold in paper & carton, for neither earth, sand, nor metal would mold as neatly, & would not receive. Or else they engrave in stone from Istre the principal side, & the reverse is of paper or carton. |
Matrix | en pierre | in stone | Sur pierre l{ett}re noire / On Stone Black Letters | 46v | Le mesme huile de soufre sur des l{ett}res gravées en pierre & chaufé vient noir & penetre. | The same oil of sulfur engraved in stone & heated turns black & penetrates. |