Paleographical Challenge #21

February 26, 2020

By Kathryn James

Today’s puzzle pictured above for the Paleographical Challenge. Suggested solution to yesterday’s challenge:

To make excellent Ink.

Raine water 3 gallons, of white wine vinegar, a quart, gauls
two pounds, gum arabeck one pound, pomegranate Pills one quarter
of a pound, all these bruised but not beat too small, Copperus two
ounces, this will be ready ye sooner, if it stand near ye fire, or in
ye Sun.

X To Drese a Codds=Head.

“To make excellent Ink,” Recipe book, f. 58v. England, late 17th c. Osborn b115