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these drugs melt in a new earthen pot, & when it is melted, you will pass it in a clean cloth & you will see a beautiful varnish.
Another varnish
Take one ounce of spike lavender oil & heat it over coals, & then take a half ounce of sang dea Raiec & grind it coarsely, and then put it into the spike lavender oil, & then mix it with a stick until you see that it is melted, and then put it in a glass vial. And when you want to use it, heat it little by little over the coals. And before laying it, lay a coat of glue very clear, & then lay it with a pinceau.
For making red varnish
Take vermillion & soak it with gum water as well as with other water, and make it like the other varnish, & mix this other water like the other varnish, and then lay it down as before to make three green.
For making green trwood
Take very strong vinegar, salt, & rainwater, and one needs to put it all together with verdigris, and put it in a new earthen vessel with your wood, & put it in some very warm horse dung for the space of eight or nine days.