Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors. Some entries accompanied by slips containing cloth orders and batch results.
Description:
Bound in contemporary full white parchment., In English., Purchased from Ken Spelman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., and Title from title page: William Butt's Dye Book, Nov. 24 1768.
Subject (Topic):
Dye industry--England--Early works to 1800, Dye industry--Great Britain--18th century, Dyers--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Handbooks, manuals, etc, and Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800
A selection of extracts from John Wilson's English Martyrologe (1608) concludes with "Certayne Additions in the late Englishe Martyrs, which came to the Authors knowledge after the printing of the former catalogue.", Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume includes "Vita St. Dewi, archiepiscopi, authore Ricemarcho" (Rhygyfarch); "Vita St. Albani ex lingua Anglica in Latinam translata, per Gulielmum Albanensem Monachum, qui claruit Anno 1170"; and several other lives in Latin and English., and The most extensive text in the volume is a lengthy English translation of Robert of Shrewsbury's life of St. Winifred, attributed to "Mr. Edward Morgan of Bechfield, a supposed catholique Prieste", who may well have been the Rev. Edward Morgan executed at Tyburn in 1642.
Description:
"P: Legh" written on blank verso preceding the "Table.", "Vita St. Dewi" colophon identifies the scribe as "Gulielmus Farrarus pbr.", Binding: Contemporary decorated calf, spine full-gilt, remains of label on spine., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Texts in English, Latin and Welsh.
Subject (Name):
David,--Saint,--6th cent, Farrar, William, Leigh, Philip, Morgan, Edward,--d. 1642, Rhygyfarch,--956-1099, Robert of Shrewsbury,--d. 1167, and Winifred,--Saint
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Catholics--Wales, and Christian saints--Biography