Making and Knowing
A minimal edition of BnF Ms Fr 640 in English Translation

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Making à jour letters in paper and other work

If you write or trace something on the paper and heat it soon after, and immediately it will become black; then by rubbing with a sponge, the letter will be cut out because it will be burned. Urb. Or retrace the letter with a wiped quill.