<id>p032r_3</id>
<head>To lay down <m>gold</m> in distemper</head>
<ab><pro>Scribes</pro> and mediocre <pro>painters</pro> make <m>“batture”</m>, which is <m>joiner’s glue</m> tempered in <m>water</m> over the fire, somewhat clear, mixed with very little <m>honey</m>, that is a few drops to make it thicken, and then they use it to draw letters or whatever they want to <m>gild</m> with a brush, and immediately after lay down the <m>gold</m>, but the work they do is never quite neat, and if there is a lot of <m>honey</m> it dries only with great difficulty. This layer will be damaged in the rain. </ab>
<ab>Others do better, they temper <m>candy sugar</m> in <m>water</m> and mix it with <m>sanguine</m> that they call “cocon”,very crushed, and add a little <m>soap</m>. This makes it neat, and renders <m>gold</m> beautiful if one uses it as the underlayer.</ab>
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<title id=”p007v_a4”>Against gonorrhea</title>
<ab id=p007v_b4”>Cook .i. lb. of old smiths’ water, .i. ℥ of Armenian bole reduced in the finest powder, and .iii. ʒ of common honey, until the honey stops foaming. Once cooled, strain with great pressure and use the results of filtration by injection.</ab>
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<id>p046r_1</id>
<head><m>Sulfur oil</m> for the teeth</head>
<ab>Some people whiten them with compositions of <m>aqua fortis</m>, however we say that this corrupts them afterward and causes them to blacken. We say that <m>oil of sulfur</m> is excellent, but it must be applied in this way: take as much <m>clove oil</m> as can be held in a roquille de <m>noix</m>, as much <m>rose honey</m>, and seven or eight drops of <m>oil of sulfur</m>, and put it all together, and after having cleaned the teeth with a small burin, touch them lightly with a good bit of <m>cotton</m> dipped in the aforementioned oils and leave it for a little while, then spit it out or rinse the mouth with tepid water, and repeat two or three times. <m>Oil of sulfur</m> penetrates and is corrosive, but the <m>oil of cloves</m> and the <m>rose honey</m> correct it. Therefore use it with discretion.</ab>
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<id>p047r_1</id>
<head>For teeth</head>
<ab><m>Sal ammoniac</m> i <figure>℥</figure>, <m>rock salt</m> 1 <figure>℥</figure>, <m>alum</m> half <figure>℥</figure>. Make <m>water</m> with the cornue, and no matter how little of it you touch the tooth with, the tartar and blackness will go away. It is that it has a bad odor, but you can mix it with <m>rose honey</m> and a little <m>clove oil</m> or <m>cinammon<sup> oil</m>.
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<title id=“p042v_a2”>Canvas for oil painting without breaking</title>
<ab id=“p042v_b2”>In order that your oil painting be not broken or ruined as you bend it, make your (preparatory) layer with honey, a bit of oil, water, and flour.</ab>
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<id>p066v_1</id>
<head>To prevent the growth of breasts or to diminish ones that are too large</head>
<ab>Take large <m>breads</m> fresh from the oven and split them into two parts, and apply them when they are as hot as possible, and do this 3 times a day, and continue 4 or 5 days. Afterwards make a plaster with <m><pl>Venice</pl> turpentine</m>, or even better, with <m>common turpentine</m>. Mix it with <m>sumac</m>, <m>sloe</m> from bushes, <m>quince seed</m>, <m>pomegranate flower</m>, and <m>leaves of olive trees</m>, and other things similar, cooked and mixed with <m>turpentine</m>. But I forgot that it is necessary, after having applied the hot bread, which softens and makes you sweat, to apply linens soaked with water from a honeycomb, which is to say <m>honey</m> and <m>beeswax</m> extracted all together from the <m>hive</m>. </ab>
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<id>p066r_5</id>
<head>To <m>gild</m> paintings’ mouldings with matte <m>gold</m></head>
<ab>See on the other side of this folio this mark: <figure>*</figure></ab>
<ab>The <pl>Flemish</pl> apply one coat of distempered <m>glue</m> on the moulding, then they distemper some <m>lamp black</m> or <m>soot black</m> with this same <m>glue</m> and leave it to dry. They polish the corners of a few Moresque <sup>ornamentations</sup> and paint them with <m>minium</m>, <m>massicot</m>, <m>ocher de ru</m>, and a bit of <m>yellow ocher</m> distempered with greasy <m>oil</m> in which they clean their <m>oil</m> brushes, because the three aforesaid colors are adherent and dry quickly. After that, they apply the <m>gold</m> and then varnish upon it, and it seems to some that by this means all the black is painted in <m>oil</m>. But it will not be good because the <m>gold</m> can be attacked everywhere and not only on the Moresque <sup>ornamentations</sup>. Go back to the top following this <figure>*</figure></ab>
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<figure>*</figure>
<head>Matte <m>gold</m></head>
It is made with it with <m>massicot</m>, the <m>ore of ochre de ru</m>, and <m>yellow ocher</m>. In order that the composition tends toward <m>gilded</m> <m>gold</m> on the day after it is applied, if you made the underlayer the evening that you made the color, after having <m>gilded</m>, leave it to dry and rest for one day. After that, rub the <m>gilding</m> with a <m>feather</m> and with <m>cotton</m> so that no flaw will remain, then varnish with <pl>Flanders</pl> varnish that you mix with a bit of <m>spirits</m> in order to make it desiccative. The varnish will be dry in an hour. It will enhance the color of <m>gold</m>. And this matte <m>gold</m> is resistant to the rain provided that you rub it, but it must be dry for eight or ten days. <m>Gold</m> color that is made of various colors from the cleaning of <m>oil</m> brushes is not so good and with time it tarnishes the <m>gold</m> as a result of the <m>verdigris</m>. You must not touch the coat made with gold with your fingers because it will prevent it <sup>the <m>verdigris</m></sup> from attacking it. The moulded <m>gold</m> is spoiled if it touches <m>water</m>, but matte <m>gold</m> is resistant in the rain and in <m>water</m>. You must not burnish it because the tooth would remove it. Collect the imperfections and scraps that you have removed with <m>cotton</m> when the <m>gold</m> is dry and you clean it, because an ounce is worth as much as <m>gold</m>. In <pl>Flanders</pl> the women <m>gild</m>. It is more beautiful when it is a little thick but in <pl>France</pl> they beat it too delicately. On <m>canvas</m> and in distemper one <m>gilds</m> with <m>bol</m>, and <m>honey</m>, and a bit of <m>garlic juice</m>. Breathe on the <m>gold</m> color and if it clouds it is quite dry, but if it will not show the vapor of the breath then it is not quite <sup>dry</sup>. You must not <m>gild</m> with matte <m>gold</m> after having <m>gilded</m> but wait one day or one night. Thus, being dry, it will grip the <m>gold</m>. After that, varnish.
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<id>p052r_1</id>
<head>The Work done in Algiers</head>
<ab>Have a <al>colt</al> of three of four years and feed it on <m>barley</m> and <m>straw</m> cut in the same way as that which they use to feed horses in <pl>Spain</pl>. Let it drink <m>water</m> from a good fountain or river <sup><m>water</m></sup>. I do not know if it would be good sometimes to let him drink the <m>water</m> of <m>sulfur</m> springs, and to sometimes give him <m>fenugreek</m> or other hot foods, for the intention of the <pro>worker</pro> is to use the heat of his <m>manure</m>, and the climate here is cooler than that of Algiers. Keep it in a warm place and use it and make sure it loses none of its <m>manure</m> or <m>urine</m>, of which you will make a mass or two so that while one cools the other will keep its heat and be suitable to continue. Also have a large flask as thick as possible, one finger thick if it can be so made, and with a capacity of one pitcher or <m>clay</m> jug, and around the feast of St John place a dozen and a half <m>chicken eggs</m>, that is to say, the <m>egg</m> without the <m><sup>egg</sup> white</m> and the <m>germ</m>. Others say sixty <m>yokes</m>. And with this dozen and a half of <m>chicken egg yokes</m> put one half ounce (others say sixty <m>eggs</m> and a half pound) of <m>female silk worm eggs</m>. And after carefully luting the flask (I do not know if air will be needed for the generation) and bury it in the heat of the <m>manure</m> up to the neck, and leave it there until several <al>worms</al> are engendered and then remove the flask and do not bury it in the <m>manure</m> anymore. But put it on the hot layer of the <m>manure</m> until all the <al>worms</al> are eaten and consume one another by shriveling and stirring, and only one remains. Once this has happened, you must lure it at regular intervals, day and night, with the assistance of two men, who will care for it in shifts, and you will lure it with an <m>egg yolk</m> covered in <m>gold</m> leaf or with a liquid <m>yolk</m> into which the <m>gold</m> leaf has been incorporated. And be careful that it does not miss such fodder (some say one <m>egg yolk</m> per hour, others say three, but the thing itself will demonstrate the practice). So nourished in this way it will grow in two month or seven weeks and will become like a <al>serpent</al>, one span and four fingers long, and one pound in weight, and as the wings will begin to develop, you must kill it, doing so with a <m>charcoal</m> fire in a ring around the bottle one span away from it, and at that time lute the bottle well so that it does not exhale
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or to be safer, go away until the fire is completely blown out and that everything is cold again. Because the exaltation may be dangerous. And for that moment, when you take it with some tongs, do cover your mouth with some good <m>vinegar</m> and have a protection and cover yourself with it. Once it has died out, put it into a cloth or a canvas made of <m>silk</m> and fold it and hold it to a board exposed to air and the sun will dry it. Once it is well dry, powder it in a mortar and keep this powder cautiously Because one ounce of this one thrown on 3 pounds of melted <m>♁</m> transforms it into a finer <m>☉</m> than the other one. But there is not so much pitch. You also have to choose the oldest <m>♁</m> possible which has often melted before and finely hammered into blades or other works, and at first purify it by melting and throwing it into some <m>honey</m> and <m>vinegar</m>. The completion time for such work is nine months from Saint John’s day until the 25th April. </ab></div>