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A very proper treatise wherein is breefely set forth the art of limming, : which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagery : and the maner how to make sondrye syses or groundes to lay siluer or gold vpon, and how siluer or gold shall be layed or limmed vpon the sise, and the waye to temper gold and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall vpon velym, parchment or paper ... .

Title:A very proper treatise wherein is breefely set forth the art of limming, : which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagery : and the maner how to make sondrye syses or groundes to lay siluer or gold vpon, and how siluer or gold shall be layed or limmed vpon the sise, and the waye to temper gold and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall vpon velym, parchment or paper ... .
Note:By Thomas Purfoot, 1596
  
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Subject:Artists' materials -- Formulae
Subject:Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Painting -- Technique -- Early works to 1800
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