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The ceramist's secrets / Dionigi Marmi ; edited by Fausto Berti ; translated with an introductory note by David P. Bénéteau.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TP812 .M3713 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marmi, Dionigi, 1610-1681.
- Standardized Title:
- Segreti di fornace. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Enamel and enameling--Italy--Early works to 1800.
- Enamel and enameling.
- Glazes--Early works to 1800.
- Glazes.
- Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800.
- Workshop recipes.
- Glass manufacture--Chemistry--Early works to 1800.
- Glass manufacture.
- Glass manufacture--Chemistry.
- Italy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bénéteau, David (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages, xvi plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montelupo Fiorentino : Aedo Editore, [2005]
- Notes:
- Translation of two manuscripts containing formulas of ceramic enamels, ceramic colors and glass, as well as recipes for the hardening and gilding of metals. These manuscripts were transcribed from source documents by Donigi Marmi between 1632-1636 and are currently housed in the Wellcome Library in London.
- Issued in a slipcase.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) and index.
- Contains:
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Manuscript. 472.
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Manuscript. 473
- ISBN:
- 8882420884
- 9788882420888
- OCLC:
- 76822397
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