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Annotation Plans
2017.10.27, 11:58pm
From Week of November 19
Name: Reut Ullman
Date and Time:

2017.10.27, 11:58pm

Location: Toronto, Canada
Subject: Perliminary Plans

Instructions:

Name your group of 2
Reut Ullman, group of 1.

Describe your annotation plans

List the recipes from MS Fr. 640 (and any other source) that you have identified so far (include full recipes if practical):

Grotto recipes found on 040r, 110r, 118r

<div>
<id>p040r_5</id>
<head>Grottes</head>
<ab>Pour remplir quelque lieu vuide qui ne peult pas estre<lb/>
charge de quelque roches pendant on mect pres du<lb/>
foeu un lopin de <m>parchemin</m> espes qui se retire &amp; samo<exp>n</exp>cele<lb/>
puys on le painct a destrempe puys a <m>huile</m> apres on<lb/>
laplique.</ab>
</div>

<div>
<id>p040r_5</id>
<head>Grottos</head>
<ab>To fill some empty place that cannot be laden with hanging rocks, one puts a piece of thick <m>parchment</m> close to the fire, which shrinks &amp; crumples. Then one paints it with distemper, then in <m>oil</m>. Next one affixes it.</ab>
</div>


</div><div><id>p110r_2</id><head><m>Rocher</m> &amp;<m>grotte</m></head>
<ab>Il fault piler des <m>marchasites</m> blanches &amp; jaulnes &amp; diverses<lb/>
sortes de <m>mines</m> &amp; puys les bien laver affin que la partye<lb/>
terrestre &amp; pouldreuse se nettoye &amp; quil ne demeure que le<lb/>
grain luisant de la <m>mine</m> de laquelle tu saulpoudreras<lb/>
ta roche premierem<exp>ent</exp> couchee de <m>colle forte</m> Si ta <del>grasse</del><lb/>
<m>grotte</m> nest<del>r</del> point pour fontaine &amp; pour toucher eau Et<lb/>
tu auras un bel ouvrage</ab>


</div><div><id>p110r_2</id><head>Rock &amp; grotto</head>
<ab>You need to grind white &amp; yellow <m>marcasites</m> &amp; various kinds of <m>mines</m>. &amp; wash them thoroughly, so the soiled &amp; chalky end will be clean, &amp; in order that only the lustrous grain of the <m>mine</m> will be left, from which you will powder your rock previously covered with <m>colle forte</m>, if your grotto is not used as a fountain &amp; touches water. You will thus obtain a nice work.</ab>




<page>118r</page>
<image>http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10500001g/f241.image</image>
<div><id>p118r_a1</id><head><al>Escargots</al></head>

<ab><al>Ceulx qui se trouvent dans la <env>mer</env></al> &amp; mesmem<exp>ent</exp><al>ceulx dans lesquels<lb/>
certains petits <al>chancres</al> se logent</al> sont tresbeaulx pour grottes sils<lb/>
sont descharges de la premiere crouste de leur coquille avecq de l<m>eau<lb/>
fort</m> Car ilz semblent vrayem<exp>ent</exp> estre de <m>nacre de perle</m></ab>

<div><id>p118r_a1</id><head><al>Snails</al></head>

<ab>Those which are found in the <env>ocean</env> and similarly those in which certain small crabs dwell are very beautiful for grottoes, if they have been rid of the first layer of their shell with <m><la>aqua fortis</la></m>, because they really look to be made of <m>mother-of-pearl</m>.</ab>



<id>p118r_a3</id><head>Pour grottes</head>

<ab>Les pierres faictes deau appellees <m>stuf</m> Le <m>charbon</m> La composition<lb/>
d<m>estaim</m> &amp; de <m>letton</m> fin Le <m>papier</m> pille &amp; mesle de <m>verre</m> pille Le <m>liege</m><lb/>
Le <m>parchemin chaufe</m> le <m>corail blanc</m> sont propres pour faire grottes<lb/>
Mays les lopins de <m>bois</m> fantasques qui se trouvent parmy les<lb/>
forests &amp; les funges &amp; potirons des arbres estants secs sont<lb/>
meilleurs que tout pourcequilz sont legers On y mesle de petits<lb/>
lopins d<m>estaimde glace</m> qui ha une lueur esclatante On y pile<lb/>
menu diverse sorte de <m>marchasites</m> quon lave pour les purifier<lb/>
de la <m>terre</m> &amp; on en saulpouldre louvrage qui est tresbeau<lb/>
Sil ny ha point de fontaine en la grotte On colle tout <del>al</del> cela<lb/>
de <m>colle</m> forte <del>qui</del> et est bien tost faict <add>@Ayes montres de toutes sortes<lb/>
de <m>mines</m> Les <m>marchasitessulfurees</m> qui nont point de grain mays<lb/>
sont unies comme l<m>estain de glace</m> sont tresbelles</add></ab>

<ab><margin>left-middle</margin> La <m>rosette</m><lb/>
se trouve quelque<lb/>
fois meslee de<lb/>
certains lopins<lb/>
aigres qui se<lb/>
pulverisent<lb/>
soubs le<lb/>
<tl>marteau</tl><lb/>
qui sont tresbeaulx<lb/>
pulverises<lb/>
sur grottes</ab>

</div><div><id>p118r_a3</id><head>For grottoes</head>

<ab><m>Stone</m>s made from water called <m>stuf</m>; <m>charcoal</m>; the confection of <m>tin</m> and pure <m>brass</m>; <m>paper</m> ground up and mixed with ground up <m>glass</m>; <m>cork</m>; <m>heated parchment</m>, <sup>and</sup><m>white coral</m>, all of them are appropriate for making grottoes. But, once dry, fantastical pieces of <m>wood</m>, which are found in the forests and among <sup>regular</sup> mushrooms and <fr><pa>potirons</pa></fr><sup>growing on</sup> trees, are better than all of them because they are light. Mix in with small pieces of <m>looking-glass tin</m> which have a shiny luster. Grind in a little of a different kind of <m>marcasite</m> in order to clean the <m>earth</m> away, then powder the work, which is very beautiful. If there is no spring in the grotto, glue all of this with strong <m>glue</m>, and then the work is done. You must show all kinds of <m>mines</m>. The <m>sulfurousmarcasites</m> which do not have a grain but are even like <m>looking-glass tin</m> are very beautiful.</ab>

<ab><margin>left-middle</margin><m>Red copper</m> is found sometimes mixed with certain brittle lumps which are pulverized under the <tl>hammer</tl>, which are very beautiful pulverized on grottoes.</ab>

Primary sources:
Works by Salomon de Caus
Works by Bernard Palissy, Admirable Discourses
Vasari on Technique

Secondary Sources
Leonard Amico Bernard Palissy: in search of earthly paradise
Neil Kenny, Palace of Secrets
Naomi Miller, Heavenly Caves: reflections of the garden grottos
Pamela Smith Body of the Artisan
William Eamon Science and the Secrets of Nature
Tim Ingold Perception of the Environment
Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800
Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot The History of Garden Design: the western tradition from the renaissance to the present day
Malgorzata Szafranska "The philosophy of nature and the grotto in the Renaissance garden"
Robert Schneider Public Life in Toulouse
William Beik A social and cultural history of early modern France

Morel, Philippe. 1990. La théâtralisation de l’alchimie de la nature. Les grottes artificielles et la culture scientifique à Florence à la fin du XVIe siècle. Symboles de la Renaissance30, 155­­–81.
Plat, Hugh. 1594. The Jewell House of Art and Nature: Containing divers rare and profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the Art of Husbandry, Distillation, and Molding. London: Peter Short.
Kris, Ernst. 1928. Der Stil ‘Rustique’: Die Verwendung des Naturabgusses bei Wenzel Jamnitzer und Bernard Palissy. Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s., 1, 137–208.
Fickler, Johann Baptist. 2004. Das Inventar der Münchner herzoglichen Kunstkammer von 1598. N.s., 125, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Abhandlungen, edited by Peter Diemer. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Bimbenet-Privat, Michèle. 2007. La Daphné d’argent et de corail par Wenzel Jamnitzer au musée national de la Renaissance. Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 4: 62-74.
Bredekamp, Horst. 1995. The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine. Princeton: M. Wiener.

List the material:

Wooden frame
linen canvas (In lab)
Stone made from water, called stuf (or tuff) __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/tuff__
To purchase (__https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00657LA24/ref=asc_df_B00657LA245268831/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00657LA24&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193124171195&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15171207564856972583&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003634&hvtargid=pla-308480207010__)
Tufa __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Tufa__
To purchase __https://www.amazon.com/North-American-Pet-Sculptured-Small/dp/B003NWNBT__
Charcoal __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Charcoal__
in lab inventory, charcoal (block and BBQ)
Confection of Tin and pure brass
__http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Tin__
__http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Brass__
We have tin in lab inventory, but I am not sure that’s what we need
Ground up paper __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Paper__
To purchase (__https://www.avesstudio.com/shop/aves-paper-mache/__)
Ground up glass __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Glass__
To purchase (in lab)
Cork (__http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Cork__)____
to purchase (in lab)
parchment __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Parchment__
in lab inventory, square
White coral __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Coral__
To purchase (__http://www.shellhorizons.com/details.asp?ProductID=WCP0-77&Page=1__)
Fantastique pieces of wood
Collect from New Jersey
Marcasite __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Marcasite__
in lab inventory a little bit, ordered from Amazon
Strong glue in lab inventory
Rosette (red copper) - Further research into this word
small crab shells __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Seashell__
in lab inventory
Aqua fortis (nitric acid - HNO3) In lab inventory (nitric acid 65%)
Sulfur (powder) __http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Sulfur__
In lab inventory
Linseed oil In lab inventory







Name: Reut Ullman
Date and Time:

From Week of November 19

Location: Riverdale, NY and Columbia University Library (Butler and Avery)
Subject: Terminology
Terminology
Marchasites Sulfurees (118r_3)
He used the term ‘marchasite’ 4 times, 3 of which were in connection to grottos.
- 008v_1 (Polissement du ruby balay) la pouldre de marchasite
- 110r_2 (Grotto) des marchasites blanches & jaulnes
- 118r_3 (Grotto) diverse sorte de marchasites
- 118r_3 (Grotto) marchasites sulfurees
The phrase “marchasites sulfurees” appeared only once. What could omission in previous recipes mean? The chemical composition of Marchasite is Iron sulfide, so this term maybe a reference to its chemical composition. However, in other places in the manuscript he did not use that phrase, neither did he use it again within the same recipe. This suggests a specific way of treating the marchasite rock with sulfur.
La composition destaim & de letton fin (118r_3)
The word ‘composition’ 20 times in the MS, and the definition shifts from denoting composition, as in make up, to mixing with other materials. Cotgave dictionary defines “composition” as a composition; making, framing; a confection, compositure; compounding.
In this recipe, the phrase “la composition destaim”, suggests the term “composition” implies “composition” as in made of. The english translation maybe off. It is not “the confection of <m>tin</m> and pure <m>brass</m>” which implies a mixing of tin and brass, I think it maybe a substance that is chemically composed of tin and brass, and the brass contained is pure, which may mean there was brass that was impure. Need to look into this further. Or if it “confection” as in mixing, maybe he fused the two together, brass and tin. But why isn’t the tin pure too? Is it impure tin and pure brass? He knows the brass is pure. The tin maybe is not pure, which may suggest he had in his workshop those materials, and he knew the tin wasn’t pure, while the brass he had on hand, was. It is likely, that this material was fashioned and not naturally found, how else does the author practitioner know brass is pure but tin isnt.
La rosette (118r_3 left margin)
The term « rosette » is used 31 times in the MS.
005r-1a – 2 times
017r-1 – 11 times
024r-1
028v_1 – 2 times
032v_3
033r-1
033v-1
047v-a2
056v-1
047v-a2
056v-1
063v-4
085v-a1 – 2 times
085v-a2
118r-a3
136v-1
167r-1 – 2 times
Cogave defines Rosette as Vermillion, cheeke-Varnish, a bright ruddie colour; also, red inke to rule books with; also, a kind of fine copper that comes out of Hungarie in roud plates. The overwhelming presence of rosette in connection with recipes for canons suggests the author practitioner uses the term to denote red copper. This term is found in the left middle margin of the main recipe on grottos (118r_3), where the author practitioner also lists other materials for grotto construction, including the mixing of ground up glass with ground up paper. Furthermore, the recipe does not just call for the use of copper but rather in instances when “Red copper</m> is found sometimes mixed with certain brittle lumps which are pulverized under the <tl>hammer” suggesting the use of smaller stone-like objects, or stoned in which copper had mixed in, to smash and use them as one would use mixture of glass and paper.



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