Tricks of the medieval trades : the Trinity Encyclopedia : a collection of fourteenth-century English craft recipes /
Clarke, Mark,1962-writer of supplementary textual content,translator.
Trinity College (University of Cambridge).Manuscript.O.9.39.
British Library.Manuscript.Sloane 73.
The anonymous 'Trinity Encyclopedia' is a collection of unusually detailed 14th century English craft recipes, collected from several individuals and from a number of written sources, for manufacturing pigments, dyeing, preparing skins and furs, imitating expensive imported leathers, counterfeiting semi-precious materials, multiplying' (adulterating) verdigris, and for making soaps and confectionery. In many cases, the recipes attempt to codify and make explicit the practical knowledge of the craftsmen, conveying it by means of tips, clues, indicators of progress, tests for quality of materials, tests for progress, and tests for completion.
Includes bibliographical references.
The anonymous 'Trinity Encyclopedia' is a collection of unusually detailed 14th century English craft recipes, collected from several individuals and from a number of written sources, for manufacturing pigments, dyeing, preparing skins and furs, imitating expensive imported leathers, counterfeiting semi-precious materials, multiplying' (adulterating) verdigris, and for making soaps and confectionery. In many cases, the recipes attempt to codify and make explicit the practical knowledge of the craftsmen, conveying it by means of tips, clues, indicators of progress, tests for quality of materials, tests for progress, and tests for completion.
Handicraft
Artisans
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Handicraft.