Red Ink
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Take twenty *mithqals* of sour pomegranate peel—if it is fresh, it is better; otherwise, use dry. Take the same amount of yellow myrobalan and twenty *mithqals* of gallnuts. Take two *mithqals* of Isfahan vitriol and some myrtle juice. Combine all of that and place it in the sun for forty days, then clarify it and put it in three bottles. Add one *zanjafur* (cinnabar), ground and shaken, to one of them; this is red ink.
Original Recipe Text
Take twenty *mithqals* of sour pomegranate peel—if it is fresh, it is better; otherwise, use dry. Take the same amount of yellow myrobalan and twenty *mithqals* of gallnuts. Take two *mithqals* of Isfahan vitriol and some myrtle juice. Combine all of that and place it in the sun for forty days, then clarify it and put it in three bottles. Add one *zanjafur* (cinnabar), ground and shaken, to one of them; this is red ink.
Remarks
This is part of a larger section on the manufacture of colored inks, using cinnabar for red.
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ink
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