Table of Contents
Table of contents 5
Foreword 7
The earliest technical recipes: Assyrian recipes, Greek chemical treatises and the Mappae Clavicula text family Mark Clarke 9
Late medieval artists' recipes books (14th-15th centuries) Mark Clarke 33
Recipe books for illuminators in 15th century Germany and Netherlands - workshop practice and encyclopedic ambition Doris Oltrogge 55
The Mappae Clavicula Treatise of the Codex Matritensis 19 and the Transmission of Art Technology in the Middle Ages Stefanos Kroustallis 69
Local traditions and the use of local products in a 15th century english manuscript Cheryl Porter 85
O livro de como se fazem as cores or a medieval Portuguese text on the colours for illumination: a review Luís U. Afonso António J. Cruz Débora Matos 93
Recipes for Iniziali Fligranate in manuscripts: a separate tradition Arie Wallert 107
Verdigris ink. Compilation and interpretation of recipes extracted from medieval manuscripts Natalia Sancho Cubino Margarita San Andrés Moya 115
Gold and its manipulation across medieval treatises Eva López Zamora Consuelo Dalmau Moliner 139
Theophilus' Spanish Gold as evidence of Spain's role in the dissemination of techniques Spike Bucklow 151
The Prato Haggadah: an investigation into the materials and techniques of a Hebrew manuscript from Spain in relation to medieval treatises Silvia A. Centeno Nellie Stavisky 161
Castilian Recipes for the Manufacture of Writing Inks (15th-16th centuries) Teresa Criado Vega 185
A suit of armour produced by five workshops: Wallace Collection A20 Alan Williams David Edge 197
The etching of iron before the invention of etched intaglio printing plates, 1200-1500 Ad Stijnman 207
Proto-Scientific Revolution or Cookbook Science? Early gunnery manuals in the craft treatise tradition Steven A. Walton 221
Italian Renaissance Bronze Casting Technology: the written record Gertrude M. Helms 237
De la recette à la pratique: l'exemple du lutum sapientiae des alchimistes Nicolas Thomas 249
Late Medieval Italian Recipes for Leather Tanning Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave 271
Fifteenth-Century Lute Making Techniques and Six Hundred Years of Arabic and Persian Antecedents Alice Margerum 299
"… but the frog will die." Notions on language, seriousness and literary traditions in the Liber Illuministarum (Tegernsee, 15th century, Cgm 821) Manfred Lautenschlager 319
List of contributors 325
