white lede
London
17th Century
Source: Boulboullé, Jenny. "Drawn up by a learned physician from the mouths of artisans: The Mayerne manuscript revisited." 2020.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
white lede, gum, water, sugar candy
Preparation Steps
Take your whit and grind it with a litle gum, and when you have dun so put it in to a parringer, and when you have dun so put water to it and stir it well together and let it satle a litle while and pour of the uppermost and let it satle halfe an oure and then pour that of also and let it satle 24 ours and then pour the watter clean from it and put it in to a shell and temper it with gum and suger candy (p. 213, fol. 77r).
Original Recipe Text
Take your whit and grind it with a litle gum, and when you have dun so put it in to a parringer, and when you have dun so put water to it and stir it well together and let it satle a litle while and pour of the uppermost and let it satle halfe an oure and then pour that of also and let it satle 24 ours and then pour the watter clean from it and put it in to a shell and temper it with gum and suger candy (p. 213, fol. 77r).
Evidence
"recipe ‘For making of colors redy’ by the English miniaturist Samuel Cooper (fig. 3)... 'Take your whit and grind it with a litle gum, and when you have dun so put it in to a parringer...'"
Remarks
Samuel Cooper (1609-1672) was a famous English miniaturist whose personal hand is identified in these technical notes (p. 212).
Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
Bindergum
ColorWhite
RegionLondon
Approx. Year1650
Source Information
AuthorBoulboullé, Jenny. "Drawn up by a learned physician from the mouths of artisans: The Mayerne manuscript revisited." 2020.
CollectionSamuel Cooper
Language
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