Capitolo 12
King Alfred had a school of monastic art to Athelney in which he had
"picked monks of some the son-in-laws from every quarter." This explains
for the Greek type of job result to this point, and very probably
for the influences of Italian in the first British art. The king was active in
job of art him, for Asser it tells us that him "it continued, during
his/her frequent wars, to teach his/her workers in gold and artisans of
some the son-in-laws."
The old characteristic encyclopaedia of Bartholomew Anglicus, called, "The
Ownership of Things", it defines gold and it silvers in an original way,
according to the beliefs of the day of this writer. He says of gold,
what "in the composition it is more sadness of brimstone that
of air and the damp of mercury, and therefore gold is more
sad and heavy that the silver." Of silver him the comments, "Although silver
it is still white maketh black lines and strakes in the body that
therewith is marked."
Pole of Mark tells that the province of Carazan "the product of rivers
great quantities of washed gold, and also that that it is solid, and
on their mountains they find gold in the vein and them damage one
gold pound for six of silver."
Workers in gold or I usually silver employment one of two methods--throwing
or striking, combined with delicacy of end, pursuing, and smoothing.
The technical trials are described interestingly by the writers
of the old essays on arts you launch. In the first of these, from
the monk Theophilus, in the eleventh century, we have more graphs
accounts of trials very similar to that now in use. The naive one
monastic instructor, in his/her preface it exhorts his/her followers to the honesty
and zeal in their good jobs. "Skilled in the impediment of arts nobody glorifies
him", says Theophilus, "as if you/he/she is received by him, and not from
elsewhere; but it allowed him to humbly be thankful the God, from who everybody
things are receipts." He sincerely recommends then the artisan to
you study the book that follows, while telling him some wealth of education