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When gold color starts to grip, it is a sign that in ten or twelve
hours it will be dry & appropriate for
gilding.

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To make or mat beautiful, put in a little varnish
or fatty oil, not from that which is made from the cleaning of
pinceaulx, but the pure, which is made fatty in
the sun or mixed with ceruse.

Or mat of this sort is scarcely less beautiful than
esburnished gold, and lasts
longer in the rain, & besides, & is made sooner.
Burnished gold is cracked with time & comes apart
in the rain.


To prevent teats from swelling dor to diminish overly large ones

Take large loaves of bread freshly drawn from the
oven & split them in half &, as hot as may
be done, apply them & they & do this 3times a
day & continue 4 or 5 days.
Next, make a plaster with Venice turpentine or better,
common turpentine. Mix in sumac,
sloes from bushes, quince seeds,
pomegranate flowers, olive tree leaves,
& the like, boiled, & mix with the turpentine. But, I
forgot, one needs, after having applied the hot bread, which
softens & makes one sweat, to put on linens soaked with water
from a honey beehive, that is to say honey &
wax extracted all together from the honeycomb.


For attracting pigeons

Fry hemp seed in a pan with oil
& give some of it to the pigeons.


Against bruising of the eyes

At night, apply very thin sheets of lead. Singular
remedy.


Pinceaulx

To make them well, cut the hair from the tail of a
squirrel’s fur, as much in one go as one can hold in a
card folded up into a small tube. And putting it thus into
the aforesaid folded card, tap it & shake
it such that the hair gathers together & becomes
of the same length. Put one or two bristles of a rat’s
whiskers in the middle, then, grabbing it with the fist &
pinching it well with the thumb & index finger,
thoroughly dip the tip of all this hair in water, then,
moving close to

