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Household manual and recipe book
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7893- Books
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The lady's delight, Or Accomplish'd Female Instructor: being a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of generous breeding and behaviour; Choice of Company, Friendship; the Art of Speaking well, Directions in Love, Carriage in Company, Conversation, Affability, Courtesy and Humility; the Mystery of Eloquence. Of suitable Recreations, Modesty, Chastity, Religion, Charity, Compassion, Contentment of Mind, Devotion and Prayer. Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or Sweet-Meats, Jellies, Syrups, Cordial waters, Brandies, Wines of English Fruit, and other useful Liquors; to imitate Foreign Wines; to make Junkets. Spoon-Meats, and curious Pastery; to know good Provisions, Dye curious Colours, Whiten Ivory, Cement Glass, China or Metal; make Artificial Pearls or Precious Stones; to take our Spots or Stains, &c. to Paint, Japan, make Wax works, Rock-Work, or Works in Gold, Silk, Silver, &c. the Art of Perfuming and Preserving Cloaths from Vermin or Insects; Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts: with Directions for the Preservation of Health; to make curious Sawces, keep Flowers all the Year, Pickle all kind of useful Thing; cleanse Gold or Silver Lace; rare Experiments for Diversion, and a great Number of other useful and profitable Things.
Date: [1740?]- Archives and manuscripts
Compendium of learned medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXI)
Date: 14th CenturyReference: MS.547- Books
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Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, the whole body of arts regularly digested. containing, I. The arts of Designing, Drawing, Painting, Washing Prints, Limning, Japanning, Gilding in all their various kinds. Also Perspective, the Laws of Shadows, Dialling, &c. II. Carving, Cutting in Wood, Stone; Moulding and Casting Figures in Plaister, Wax, Metal; also Engraving, and Etching, and Mezzotinto. III. A brief historical Account of the most considerable Painters, Sculptors, Statuaries, and Engravers, with those Cyphers or Marks by which their Works are known. IV. An Explanation of the Emblematical and Hieroglyphical Representations of the Heathen Deities, Powers, Human Passions, Virtues, Vices, &c. of great Use in History Painting. V. The Production, Nature, Refining, Compounding, Transmutation and Tinging all sorts of Metals and Minerals of various Colours. VI. The Arts of Making, Working, Painting or Staining all sorts of Glass and Marble; also Enamels, the imitation of all sorts of Precious Stones, Pearls, &c. according to the Practice both of the Antients and Moderns. Vii. Dying all sorts of Materials, Linen, Woollen, Silk, Leather, Wood, Ivory, Horns, Bones; also Bleaching and Whitening Linen, Hair, &c. Viii. The Art of Tapestry-Weaving, as now performed in England, Flanders and France, either of the high or low Warp; also many other curious Manufactures. IX. A Description of Colours, Natural and Artificial, as to their Productions, Natures or Qualities, various Preparations, Compositions and Uses. X. The method of making all kinds of Inks, both Natural and Sympathetical; and also many other Cariosities not here to be specified, whereby this is rendred a more Compleat Work than has hitherto appear'd in any language.
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]