Craft Treatises and Handbooks: The Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages

Front Matter ("Editorial Board", "Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Table of Contents", "Foreword"), p. 1
	
The earliest technical recipes: Assyrian recipes, Greek chemical treatises and the Mappae Clavicula text family, p. 9
Mark Clarke	
	
Late medieval artists’ recipes books (14th-15th centuries), p. 33
Mark Clarke
	
Recipe books for illuminators in 15th century Germany and Netherlands – workshop practice and encyclopedic ambition, p. 55
Doris Oltrogge	
	
The Mappae Clavicula Treatise of the Codex Matritensis 19 and the Transmission of Art Technology in the Middle Ages, p. 69
Stefanos Kroustallis
	
Local traditions and the use of local products in a 15th century English manuscript, p. 85
Cheryl Porter
	
O livro de como se fazem as cores or a medieval Portuguese text on the colours for illumination: a review, p. 93
Luís U. Afonso, António J. Cruz, Débora Matos	
	
Recipes for Iniziali Fligranate in manuscripts: a separate tradition, p. 107
Arie Wallert	
	
Verdigris ink. Compilation and interpretation of recipes extracted from medieval manuscripts, p. 115
Natalia Sancho Cubino, Margarita San Andrés Moya
	
Gold and its manipulation across medieval treatises, p. 139
Eva López Zamora, Consuelo Dalmau Moliner	
	
Theophilus’ Spanish Gold as evidence of Spain’s role in the dissemination of techniques, p. 151
Spike Bucklow
	
The Prato Haggadah: an investigation into the materials and techniques of a Hebrew manuscript from Spain in relation to medieval treatises, p. 161
Silvia A. Centeno, Nellie Stavisky	
	
Castilian Recipes for the Manufacture of Writing Inks (15th-16th centuries), p. 185
Teresa Criado Vega
	
A suit of armour produced by five workshops: Wallace Collection A20, p. 197
Alan Williams, David Edge
	
The etching of iron before the invention of etched intaglio printing plates, 1200-1500, p. 207
Ad Stijnman	
	
Proto-Scientific Revolution or Cookbook Science? Early gunnery manuals in the craft treatise tradition, p. 221
Steven A. Walton
	
Italian Renaissance Bronze Casting Technology: the written record, p. 237
Gertrude M. Helms
	
De la recette à la pratique: l’exemple du lutum sapientiae des alchimistes, p. 249
Nicolas Thomas
	
Late Medieval Italian Recipes for Leather Tanning, p. 271
Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave
	
Fifteenth-Century Lute Making Techniques and Six Hundred Years of Arabic and Persian Antecedents, p. 299
Alice Margerum
	
“... but the frog will die.” Notions on language, seriousness and literary traditions in the Liber Illuministarum (Tegernsee, 15th century, Cgm 821), p. 319
Manfred Lautenschlager
	
Back Matter ("List of contributors"), p. 325