SYRICUM (n. n.)

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The sorts of Red are these.
Vermilion.

Synaper lake.
Synaper tops.
Red Lead.
Roset.
Turnsoile.
Browne of Spaine.
Bole Armoniack.
 
Of Vermilion.
Your fairest and most principall Red is Vermilion, called in Latine
Minium, it is a poyson, and found where great store of quicksilver is […].
Sinaper Lake.
Sinaper (in Latine called Cinnabaris,) it hath the name Lake of Lacca, a red Berry, whereof it is made growing in China and those places in the East Indies, as Master Gerrard shewed me out of this herball, maketh a deepe and beautifull red, or rather purple, almost like unto a red Rose […].
Sinaper Tops.
Grinde your Tops after the same manner you doe your lake, they are both of one nature.
Red Lead.
Red Lead, in Latine is called
Syricum, it was wont to bee made of Ceruse burnt […].
 
Turnesoile.
Turnesoile is made of old linnen rags died, you shall use it after this manner […].
Roset.
You shall grinde your Roset with Brasill water, […].
Browne of Spaine.
Grind your Browne of Spaine with Brasill water, […].
Bole Armoniacke.
Bole Armoniacke is but a faint colour, the chiefest use of it, is, as I have said, in making a size for burnisht gold.

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MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → couleurs