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Vitrum Annulare, Pastes

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VITRUM ANNULARE.                            339
to the numerous treatises on the subject then current. Heraclius, who flourished, as his editor Easpe thinks, in the 7th century, and appears to have been a Spanish Goth, to judge from certain provincialisms of his barbarous dia­lect, wrote a manual ' De Artibus Eomanorum.' Amongst others, he gives a recipe for making Pastes, but has unfortunately chosen to clothe his meaning in such obscure and corrupt hexameters that a translation is altogether beyond my powers, and therefore I can only present my readers with a transcript of the original to exercise their sagacity upon :—
takably a paste, whether original, or substituted by some later and necessitous heritor. It once belonged to Horace Walpole, and was pur­chased at the sale of his collection in 1S-12 for Her Majesty.
* A portion of this is intelligible enough : the matrix was to be made in pipe-elay, creta, and covered with the glass broken small ; but for what purpose was the reed introduced ? When melted the paste was to be pressed with a flat, polished, iron to prevent bubbles and flaws. Pliny also has obscurely alluded to this employment of creta in paste-making : "annulare (white paint) fit ex creta ad istas vitreas gemmas ex vulgi annualis :" for so the sense requires it to be corrected from the present reading, "admixtis vitreis gemmis" for a white paint com­posed of coloured glass mixed with clay is a contradiction in terms.
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