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Notice catalographique « The crafte of lymmyng and the maner of steynyng : Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators »

Titre
The crafte of lymmyng and the maner of steynyng : Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators
Auteur ou éditeur
Clarke, Mark
Lieu de publication
Oxford
Maison d'édition
Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press
Date de publication
2016
Collation
cxvii, 454 p. : 1 plate of facsimiles ; 23 cm.
Série
Early English Text Society (Series). Original Series ; 347
Résumé
This 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 Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown.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; a few are translated from pre-existing material. They are a valuable record of Middle English technical vocabulary, much of it previously unrecorded.
Langue
English = Anglais
Sujet
  • Writing - Materials and instruments - History - Sources
  • Pigments - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions - History - Sources
  • Ink - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions - History - Sources
  • Paint - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions - History - Sources
  • Écriture - Matériel et instruments - Histoire - Sources
  • Pigments - Formules et recettes - Histoire - Sources
  • Encre - Formules et recettes - Histoire - Sources
  • Peinture (Produit chimique) - Formules et recettes - Histoire - Sources
ISBN/ISSN
9780198789086
Pays
England
Type de document
Monograph = Monographie
Localisation
PR 1119 A2 v.347 2016
Clé
17855
Collection
Catalogue
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