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OverviewThis volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown. The collection contains 125 sets of recipes (around 1500 individual recipes), taken from 95 manuscripts, and forms the largest published corpus of such recipes in any language.These anonymous craft recipes describe the preparation of materials, outline their uses, advise on decorative effects, and confide tricks of the trade. In addition to recipes for conventional painting and illuminating are a number for 'staining' (figurative painting on cloth) which provide the only practical information on this one widely-practised, but now lost, English medium. The editor also identifies for the first time the earliest surviving recipes for block printing on textiles. The recipes are professional in origin, but were subsequently taken over by amateurs and encyclopaedists. Household recipes for colouring wax, fishing lines, hair, and food complete the collection.Most of the texts were originally composed in English; few are translated from pre-existing material. They are a valuable record of Middle English technical vocabulary, much of it previously unrecorded.The collection should appeal to a wide range of disciplines: students of medieval English, medieval historians, historians of fine art, and professional conservators, including those engaged in museum studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark ClarkePublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.10cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9780198789086ISBN 10: 0198789084 Pages: 375 Publication Date: 10 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Trinity Encyclopaedist The Trinity Encyclopaedist Part 2: Typical Collections Limning A 1: Early (mid-s.XV) How thou schalt temper thi colourus to lymninge, and how thou schal make a syse to kowche golt on bokus. 2: Late (late s.XV-early s.XVI) Here begynnythe the crafte of lymmyng. Fyrtse howe thow shalte temper al thy colors to lymme with bokes, and how thu shalte make a syse to cowche gold or syluer. Limning B 1: The makyng of colours for to lymne with bokys. 2: The crafte of lymnynge of bokys, with To dy selke. Staining A THe maner of steynyng of lynne cloth, with Watres for steynours. Staining B Steyning and the maner of doyng. Limning C and Staining C A tretys that tochith to make diuerse ynkes and diuerse waterys to coloure whyth. Part 3: Individual manuscripts Larger collections Remainders of Part 1 and Part 2 MSS Smaller collections Isolated ink recipes Part 4: Exceptional items Unusual recipes Secretum philosophorum analogues Ciphered recipes Dyes for fishing lines Cookery colours from BL Sloane 122 Extracts from Albertus Magnus Mirror of Light Concordances Commentary Appendices The sixteenth century: an overview Impossible recipes Extracts from Secretum philosophorum Extracts from De coloribus et mixtionibius GlossaryReviewsAuthor InformationMark Clarke is Associate Professor of Technical Art History in the Department of Conservation and Restoration, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an interdisciplinary researcher into historic artists' materials, and has a background in conservation and conservation science. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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