Capitolo 67
the position of the heart, and it placed in the crystal, so that you/he/she can lie
in his/her blood until it grows warm... cuts that that You please in him as from a lot
as the heat lasts." Only how many goats were in demand to the finish
of a graven crystal would be determined by the elaboration of
the sketch! Unfortunately Leagues of the Liberation of the animal had not invaded
the convents of the eleventh century.
In to carve glass, the naïve Theophilus is completely to his better.
"Artists!" he exclaims "that it desires to engrave glass in a beautiful
way, I can now teach her/it, as I have made me test. I have
looked for the gross worms that you plough above him turns in the earth,
and the art necessary in these things also offers me you get vinegar,
and the warm blood of a strong goat that I was accurate to place
under the roof for some time, limits with a plant of strong ivy.
After this infused self the worms and I treat with vinegar with the warm blood and
I clearly anointed the whole one the bright vase; what being done, me
tested to sculp the glass with the hard stone he/she called the Pyrites."
What a pity good Theophilus had not started with the pyrites, when
he would probably have made the further discovery that his/her worms
and goats would be been able to be saved.
In the polish of precious stones, he is rather healthy in his/her directions.
"You get a marmoreal plate, very smooth", he commands, "and as profit acts
art points out to you." In the other words, rub him/it until is smooth!
Bartholomew that Anglicus is as entertaining as Theophilus concerning
crystal. "Trowe of the men that is of snow or ice did hard in many
he observes with complaisance years." "This stone rose up the taketh of the sun
shots, insomuch if dry towing has put thereto, it the setteth the towing on
shots", and again, quoting Gregory on Ezekiel me., he adds, "water
it is of him fleeting, but from strength of cold you/he/she is turned and
crystal of done stedfast."
Of small champions of graven crystal of the small dark it reddens