List of Activities

accounting agriculture animal observation animals annealing balance keeping candle making casing casting casting animals casting plants casting things too thin casting with sand casting with sulfur catching catching animals catching birds cleaning cleaning mold colchos color making coloring coloring animals colormaking construction copying off patterns cosmetic curing dogs decoction drying animals dyeing embellishing embellishment enameling engraving erasing etching experimentation explosives extracting Regulus fish glue fountain making gardening gilding glasswork glue making gold and silver casting grotto gum making handling and maintenance handling large shapes history imitating imitation imitation coral imitation gem infusing keeping animals keeping birds and animals lead casting lifecasting list literary description luting maintenance making making a liquid binder for casting sand making awl making color making lacquer making large presses making mortars making mustard making sand making sand for lead casting making solution mask making mechnics medicinal medicine melting melting silver mending metalwork metalworking military mold making molding molding animals musical instrument-making observation oil making optics painting painting perspective perfume making pigment making plaster making poisoning polishing positioning animals practical optics preparing materials producing silk remedy repair repairing representation sand making sand molding sand sourcing sandmold making softening soldering stamping storing chestnut stretching canvas tanning tempering tempering sand therapeutics tool making using glue for delicate objects using iron clamps using spirits using wax varnish varnish for floorboards varnish for paintings varnish making varnishing watchmaking wax casting wax molding waxwork weaving whitening writing

accounting

agriculture

Plowman - 009r
agriculture observation
Peach trees - 162v
agriculture advice
Olive trees - 162v
agriculture observation

animal observation

Turtles - 105r
animal observation observation

animals

Snakes - 013v
animals observation
Mussels - 110v
animals making

annealing

Annealing core molds - 115v
annealing making
How to anneal the molds - 132r
annealing making

balance keeping

Receipts and dues for the heirs of late Sr. Ouvryer - 170v
balance keeping description

candle making

Candles - 013v
candle making observation
Scented candle from Le Mans - 166v
candle making making

casing

Bellow - 083v
casing advice

casting

Steel mirrors - 005r
casting polishing observation making
For molding from sulfur - 012r
casting observation advice
Paper - 012r
mold making casting observation advice
Plaster - 012r
mold making casting observation advice
Moulding stucco promptly - 012v
molding casting making observation
Casting metals - 015r
casting making observation
Casting gold and silver - 015r
casting observation
Cast - 047v
casting making
Lead casting - 053r
casting making
For casting - 055v
casting advice making
Tin for casting - 079v
casting advice
Make copper and latten flow - 081v
casting advice
Cast of the frame - 081v
casting advice
egg white - 082r
casting advice
Casting lead in lead - 082v
casting advice
Ways of bronze casting - 082v
casting making
Lead - 084v
casting advice
Casters - 085v
casting advice
Sand Experiments - 085v
casting making advice
Casting - 102v
casting making
Casting - 103v
casting making
For casting - 104v
casting making
To cast - 106r
casting making observation
Making gold run for casting - 106r
casting metalworking making
Casting in gold - 106v
casting making
Tiles - 106v
casting making
Plaster - 106v
casting making
Information on casting - 107r
casting making
Spalt - 108r
casting making observation
Stone alum - 108v
casting making
Clay - 108v
casting making
Molding snakes - 109r
keeping animals casting making observation
Casting - 110r
casting making
Snakes - 110r
keeping animals casting remedy making advice
Wheat oil - 110v
oil making casting making
A cast of lead or tin - 110v
casting making
Latten smoke - 111r
casting making
For red copper - 111r
casting making
Lizards - 111v
catching animals casting making
Molding en noyau. Mixing of sand - 112r
casting making
Affixing and arranging animals - 112v
casting positioning animals making
Wetting sand and molding the first cast - 113r
casting making
Second Casting - 114r
casting making
Note about everything above said - 115r
casting keeping animals making
Reheating molds - 115r
casting making
Tin casting - 115v
casting making
Giving ventilation to your mold - 115v
casting making
For molding thinly - 130v
casting making
Mold made from two casts - 132r
casting making
Casting - 135r
casting making
Casting gold - 135v
casting making
latten casting - 136v
casting making
Casting red copper - 137r
casting making
Wetting sand to mold flat medals - 137v
casting making
Gold casted very thinly - 138v
casting making
Casting with lead and tin - 139r
casting casting animals making
Casting wax to mold an animal that one has not got - 139v
casting wax casting making
To cast in sulfur - 140v
casting casting with sulfur making
Casting a crayfish - 141r
casting casting animals making
Molding grasshoppers and things too thin - 142v
casting casting animals casting things too thin making
Large molds - 158v
casting advice
Candle smoke - 158v
casting making
casts - 158v
casting advice
Moulding a foot or a hand - 160v
casting making
Rotten wood - 162r
casting advice
Crayfish - 163v
casting making advice
Casting - 164r
casting advice
Sable - 164v
casting advice
Lute - 165v
casting application
Fly wings - 165v
casting advice
Thick tin pieces - 170r
casting making

casting animals

Stripping animal - 115r
casting animals making
Molding a single spider - 130r
casting animals making
Molding a crab - 130v
casting animals making advice
Stag beetle - 130v
casting animals making
Casting the feet of small lizards in gold and silver - 133r
gold and silver casting casting animals making
Vine leaf and small frog - 135r
casting plants casting animals making
Casting with lead and tin - 139r
casting casting animals making
Casting a crayfish - 141r
casting casting animals making
Molding grasshoppers and things too thin - 142v
casting casting animals casting things too thin making
Moulding turtles and tortoises - 143r
casting animals making
Toad - 143r
casting animals making
Positioning animals - 165v
casting animals

casting plants

Molding a single vine leaf - 130r
casting plants making
Herbs difficult to burn in the mold - 131r
casting plants making
Vine leaf and small frog - 135r
casting plants casting animals making
Carnations - 143v
casting plants making

casting things too thin

casting with sand

Common quarry sand - 132v
casting with sand making

casting with sulfur

To cast in sulfur - 140v
casting casting with sulfur making

catching

Catching crayfishes - p160v
catching making
Catching passerines - p160v
catching advice

catching animals

Catching nightingales - 105v
catching animals observation advice making
Catching lizards and snakes - 107r
catching animals advice
Lizards - 111v
catching animals casting making

catching birds

Catching birds - 160v
catching birds making advice

cleaning

To remove varnish from an old panel painting that has yellowed and varnish it again - 004r
varnish cleaning application advice
Whitening pearls - 013v
cleaning observation
Oil of sulfur for the writer - 046v
cleaning advice application
Cleaning files - 159v
cleaning advice
How to clean closed molds - 170r
cleaning making

cleaning mold

Ashes in the moulds - 157v
cleaning mold advice
Mercury in molds, for cleaning - 158r
cleaning mold making advice

colchos

Provisions for the work of Colchos - 102r
colchos making
For the furnace - 102r
colchos making
Royal cement - 102r
colchos making
Glass vessel - 102r
colchos making

color making

Skin colors - 061r
color making making

coloring

Painter - 057v
coloring observation
Colors for gold, or sauce - 135r
coloring making

coloring animals

Reddening lively crayfish which will look as if they were boiled - 130r
coloring animals making

colormaking

To make a very beautiful and inexpensive golden color - 076v
colormaking making
To make colors fluid - 103v
colormaking making
Good mixture to color gold - 104r
colormaking making
Drying colors - 105r
colormaking making advice
Crocum ferri - 161v
colormaking making advice
Crocum - 163v
colormaking observation
Improving the color of gold - 166v
colormaking making

construction

For earth walls and rustic construction - 014r
construction observation

copying off patterns

Copying off patterns - 051r
copying off patterns making

cosmetic

Getting rid of red eyes or black eyes - 011v
cosmetic application

curing dogs

Curing dogs from mange - 048r
curing dogs advice

decoction

Decoction of sands - 112r
decoction making

drying animals

Drying animals in an oven - 130r
drying animals making

dyeing

To dye - 013r
dyeing making observation
Damask Cloth - 015r
dyeing making

embellishing

For bronzing in yellow and white - 005v
embellishing making application
To lay down and set burnished gold and give it a red or green or blue hue - 006r
embellishing gilding observation application
For cages - 006v
embellishing glasswork application advice observation description
To gild with gold color and tinsel - 007r
embellishing making observation application
Imitation jasper - 010r
imitating embellishing advice observation application making
Applying the color of Damascene steel on knives - 011v
embellishing application
Recipe for white gum - 074v
embellishing making
Green gum - 074v
embellishing making
Bronze of copper - 075r
embellishing making
Ground gold - 075r
embellishing making
Making grey wood - 075v
embellishing making
Gilding wood - 075v
embellishing making
Gilding with ground gold - 075v
embellishing making
Recipe for coloring all wood - 075v
embellishing application
Making Wood Green - 076r
embellishing making
Making Wood Blue - 076r
embellishing making
For Making Purple Wood - 076r
embellishing making
For Making Yellow Wood - 076r
embellishing making
Making black gommiche - 076v
embellishing making
For white gommiche - 076v
embellishing making
Gilding iron or tin - 076v
embellishing making
To make green wood - 078r
embellishing making
To make bronze the color of azur - 078v
embellishing making
To make bronze the color of gold - 078v
embellishing making
To make bone or horn green - 078v
embellishing making
To make it bronze - 078v
embellishing making
Mading gray wood - 079r
embellishing making
Making gold colored bronze - 079r
embellishing making
Making varnish - 079v
embellishing making
Very hard white stucco - 080r
embellishing making
Adorning beds, mirrors and similar things - 131r
embellishing making
Gilding animals cast with silver - 132v
embellishing making
Imitation diamonds set into the work - 138v
embellishing making
Openwork carcanets - 143v
embellishing making

embellishment

To color stamped ornaments for trunks - 007r
embellishment stamping making application

enameling

Enamels - 103v
enameling observation advice
Enameling a carnelian - 104r
enameling making

engraving

Iron engravers' varnish - 004v
varnish engraving making application advice
Making diamond points for engraving - 011v
engraving making
To whiten enilanroc - 012v
polishing engraving making observation

erasing

Erasing a letter - 046v
erasing advice application

etching

For stamped ornaments used for embellishing and inserting into or covering the edges of mirrors, the tops of chests, or the friezes of bed valances - 006v
etching metalwork stamping making

experimentation

Earwax - 103v
experimentation making observation

explosives

To explode grenades and give force to fireworks - 008r
explosives military making

extracting Regulus

Regulus extracts - 048v
extracting Regulus making

fish glue

Fish glue - 159r
fish glue making advice

fountain making

Fountain - 105v
fountain making observation making

gardening

Gardening - 105r
gardening advice making
Gardening - 105v
gardening observation

gilding

To lay down and set burnished gold and give it a red or green or blue hue - 006r
embellishing gilding observation application
Gold lettering on paper - 008r
gilding making
Underlayer for gold leaf on parchment or paper - 010v
painting gilding advice application
For cleaning gold leaf applied to iron - 010v
gilding advice
Applying unpolished gold - 011v
gilding application

glasswork

For cages - 006v
embellishing glasswork application advice observation description

glue making

Glue - 085r
glue making advice

gold and silver casting

Casting the feet of small lizards in gold and silver - 133r
gold and silver casting casting animals making

grotto

Rock and grotto - 110r
grotto making

gum making

Red gum - 075r
gum making making

handling and maintenance

handling large shapes

Molding and shrinking a large shape - 140v
handling large shapes making

history

For the Workshop - 166r
history observation

imitating

Imitation jasper - 010r
imitating embellishing advice observation application making
Roses - 010r
imitating observation

imitation

imitation coral

Imitation coral - 003r
imitation coral making observation

imitation gem

Emeralds of Brissac - 002v
imitation gem making
Sapphire - 002v
imitation gem making

infusing

Infusion of anthos or rosemary - 102v
infusing making

keeping animals

Nightingale - 105v
keeping animals observation making advice
Nightingale - 105v
keeping animals observation advice
Molding snakes - 109r
keeping animals casting making observation
Killing snakes for molding - 109v
keeping animals advice
Snakes - 110r
keeping animals casting remedy making advice
Killing the animal to mold - 112r
keeping animals making
Note about everything above said - 115r
casting keeping animals making

keeping birds and animals

Keeping birds and animals - 048r
keeping birds and animals advice

lead casting

Lead casting - 049r
lead casting making

lifecasting

Various animals entwined - 133v
lifecasting making

list

List of making procedures - 169r
list

literary description

handwork and devotion - 166v
literary description observation

luting

Lute for luting your molds - 142v
luting making

maintenance

Molds - 142v
maintenance making
Iron filings - 143v
maintenance making

making

For easing the belly - 001v
making medicine
Against pain - p002r
making medicine
Colors for green leafs - 158v
making

making a liquid binder for casting sand

Magistry - 084r
making a liquid binder for casting sand making
Eau Magistra - 084v
making a liquid binder for casting sand advice

making awl

Common medals - 170r
making awl observation

making color

Grinding colors - 061v
making color advice

making lacquer

Lacquer - 165r
making lacquer observation

making large presses

Presses for large moulds - 160r
making large presses making advice

making mortars

Mortars - 167r
making mortars

making mustard

Excellent mustard - 048r
making mustard making

making sand

Crocum ferry - 132v
making sand making
Sand made of crocum [ferri] - 134r
making sand making
Moulders from Foix - p143r
making sand observation

making sand for lead casting

Sand for lead casting - 049r
making sand for lead casting making

making solution

sal ammoniac water - 111v
making solution making

mask making

Impromptu mask - 084r
mask making making

mechnics

Fountains - 080r
mechnics advice

medicinal

Ears - 015v
medicinal observation application
Toothache - 015v
medicinal observation
Against plague - 170v
medicinal advice
To preserve oneself - 170v
medicinal advice

medicine

Against windy colic - 007v
medicine making
To relieve the pain of g{out} - 007v
medicine making application
Against gonorrhea - 007v
medicine making application
Toadstone - 013v
painting medicine observation
Excellent burn relief - 103r
medicine making advice
Enema - 103v
medicine making advice
Against dogs' mange - 104v
medicine making
Toad - 109v
molding medicine observation advice making

melting

Melting - 047v
melting making

melting silver

Silver - 165v
melting silver observation

mending

Mending cracks in a panel - 059v
mending advice

metalwork

metalworking

Corroding and dissolving absolutely pure gold - 104r
metalworking making
Engraving on iron - 104r
metalworking making
How to silver plate copper and latten - 104r
metalworking making
Goldsmith - 104v
metalworking making advice
Making gold run for casting - 106r
casting metalworking making

military

To explode grenades and give force to fireworks - 008r
explosives military making
Tempering bullets to pierce bullet-proof armor - 008r
military making
To make a breach in a wall by night - 008r
military advice

mold making

Paper - 012r
mold making casting observation advice
Plaster - 012r
mold making casting observation advice
Reheating molds - 111r
mold making making
Clay earth - 111r
mold making making
Iron wire - 111r
mold making making
Composition of sand - 111v
mold making making

molding

Moulding stucco promptly - 012v
molding casting making observation
Molding from paper - 053r
molding making
Fatty earth - 077r
molding making
Earth for moulding - 081r
molding advice
Sand work - 081r
molding advice
Plaster - 081r
molding advice
Carton - 081r
molding making
Box mold - 082r
molding advice
Excellent type of molding with water - 083v
molding making
Molding one part in relief and one hollow side - 083v
molding advice
Wax for molding - 109r
molding waxwork making
Molding wax - 109r
molding waxwork making
Toad - 109v
molding medicine observation advice making
Crab and crayfish - 111v
molding making
Tin and lead - 159r
molding making
Carnation - 159v
molding making advice
Molds - 159v
molding making
Fine work made of gold or silver - p160v
molding advice
Preparing sand for box molds - 161r
molding advice
Aes ustum - 162r
molding observation
Foot of bittern - 162v
molding observation
Molds of things which have not been pelted - 162v
molding making advice
Leaded silver - 164r
molding observation
Molds - 164v
molding making advice
Molds - 164v
molding making
Plaster for molding - 165r
molding application advice
Molds - 165v
molding observation
Reducing a round form into a hollow one - 169v
molding making advice
Molds - 170r
molding observation

molding animals

Keeping animals - 165v
molding animals advice

musical instrument-making

Spinet playing by itself - 104v
musical instrument-making making

observation

Folds in clothing - 059v
observation advice
Siccatives - 059v
observation advice

oil making

Wheat oil - 110v
oil making casting making

optics

Making letters easier to read - 015v
optics observation

painting

Painters - 009r
painting observation
Painters - 009v
painting observation
Scudegrun - 010r
painting observation
Purple color - 010r
painting observation
For painting in oil on taffeta without the oil running - 010v
painting making observation
Underlayer for gold leaf on parchment or paper - 010v
painting gilding advice application
Painting enamel azure in oil - 011r
painting making
Flesh color with arsenic - 013r
painting observation
Toadstone - 013v
painting medicine observation
To paint - 056v
painting advice
Shadows - 058v
painting observation
Painting crepe - 059v
painting advice
Making things round - 061r
painting making
White lead - 061r
painting observation
Lights - 061r
painting making
Water to make light for painters - 061v
painting making
Chassis used by Germans - 061v
painting observation
Painting on crystal or glass - 102v
painting making observation
Painting - 105r
painting making advice

painting perspective

Perspectives - 062r
painting perspective advice

perfume making

Perfume-makers - 163r
perfume making description observation

pigment making

To make vermillion - 074r
pigment making making

plaster making

Unmixed plaster - 159v
plaster making advice

poisoning

To kill someone with a horrible poison spread on a board over which the person walks or on stirrups - 055r
poisoning making

polishing

Steel mirrors - 005r
casting polishing observation making
To polish a ruby balay - 008v
polishing advice
Polishing stones - 008v
polishing observation
Polishing a copper wheel - 011v
polishing advice
Cleaning yellow pearls - 012v
polishing application
To whiten enilanroc - 012v
polishing engraving making observation
Polishing of stones - 013r
polishing observation
Sanguine - 111v
polishing making

positioning animals

Affixing and arranging animals - 112v
casting positioning animals making

practical optics

Concave mirrors - 005r
practical optics observation

preparing materials

Softening horn - 015v
preparing materials observation

producing silk

Silkworms - 053r
producing silk observation

remedy

Snakes - 110r
keeping animals casting remedy making advice

repair

Repairing burrs - 164r
repair advice

repairing

When lead or tin casts fill with bubbles - 131v
repairing making
Clamps and the broken mold - 133r
repairing making
Porosity and little holes which are in the mold - 133v
repairing making
To repair a pierced mold - 134r
repairing making
Repairing - 163v
repairing advice
To repair - 165r
repairing observation
Repairing snakes and lizards - 165r
repairing application

representation

Chasing tool - 159r
representation advice

sand making

Sand - 082v
sand making advice
Sand for lead - 083r
sand making making
Sand for copper medals - 083r
sand making making advice
Other sand for use with lead - 083
sand making making
Other sand - 083r
sand making making
Sand from a Toulousain mine - 084r
sand making advice
Sand, for the most excellent lead of all, for large and small reliefs - 084v
sand making making advice
Sand from a mine - 085v
sand making advice

sand molding

Sand, salte, and burned earth - 087v
sand molding advice

sand sourcing

Sand of Toulouse - 087r
sand sourcing observation

sandmold making

Sand - 018v
sandmold making advice
Sand - 081v
sandmold making advice
Other sand - 083r
sandmold making making
Excellent sand - 083r
sandmold making making
Sand - 084r
sandmold making making advice
Excellent sand for lead, tin and copper - 086v
sandmold making making advice
Sand from sand pit from Toulouse - 087v
sandmold making making advice

softening

Softening gold - 166v
softening application

soldering

stamping

storing chestnut

Keeping chestnuts - 166v
storing chestnut advice

stretching canvas

Stretching a canvas portrait - 165r
stretching canvas application

tanning

Shoemaker - 046v
tanning advice application
Tanner - 057v
tanning observation

tempering

Excellent temper for breastplates - 056r
tempering making

tempering sand

To temper the sand - 112r
tempering sand making

therapeutics

Medicine of orientals against all maladies - 077r
therapeutics making
Mixture for printers - 079v
therapeutics application
Making water against illness of the eyes - 079r
therapeutics making
Antidote against the smoke of metals - 079v
therapeutics application

tool making

Mortars - 085v
tool making advice
Clamps - 137r
tool making making

using glue for delicate objects

Attaching a fly wing or something similar - 165v
using glue for delicate objects application

using iron clamps

Iron clamps - 170r
using iron clamps advice

using spirits

Spirits - 163r
using spirits observation

using wax

Portraits in Wax - 159r
using wax making

varnish

varnish for floorboards

Thick varnish for floorboards - 003r
varnish for floorboards making

varnish for paintings

Varnish for paintings - 003r
varnish for paintings making

varnish making

To bronze in white - 074r
varnish making making
To make varnish - 074r
varnish making making
To make red varnish - 074v
varnish making advice
To make yellow varnish - 074v
varnish making making
Recipe for making bronze and many kind of varnishes - 077r
varnish making making
Other approved varnishes - 077v
varnish making making
Another varnish - 077v
varnish making making
Another varnish - 077v
varnish making making
Another varnish - 078r
varnish making making
To make red varnish - 078r
varnish making making
Green varnish for copper medals - 085r
varnish making making

varnishing

Varnish for tempera - 056r
varnishing making

watchmaking

Watchmakers - 082r
watchmaking observation

wax casting

Casting wax to mold an animal that one has not got - 139v
casting wax casting making

wax molding

Hard wax to imprint seals - 133r
wax molding making

waxwork

Working in rough with wax - 109r
waxwork making
Wax for molding - 109r
molding waxwork making
Molding wax - 109r
molding waxwork making

weaving

Fine sieves of raw silk - 013r
weaving observation advice

whitening

Oil of sulfur for the teeth - 046r
whitening advice application

writing

Writing without ink - 046v
writing advice application