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Elizondo-Garza, [Stucco for Molding](/#essays/ann_064_fa_17)

Kuiper/Kroon, “What is *Spat*?” https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_509_ad_20
Kuiper/Kroon, [“What is *Spat*?”](/#essays/ann_509_ad_20)

## Culinary and Medical Recipes
There are only a handful of culinary recipes in the manuscript, but students reconstructed some of them, for example, “Excellent mustard” and the Toulouse specialty of millet bread, *Millas*. Students explored the medical cures and remedies in the manuscript, considering the place of medical recipes in this mostly art and technical manuscript, attempting to determine the likely meaning of the abbreviation “G.,” seeking to understand the use of rosemary in pipe smoking, deciphering the use of a medicinal plaster “for preventing teats from swelling,” and recreating the impressive inspiriting of a salve for burns by means of holy water and intensive repetitions of the Pater Noster prayer.
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Landsman/Rowen, [Molding a Hollow on One Side and in Relief on the Other](/#essays/ann_002_fa_14)

Groeneveld/Nuij, “Molding a Hollow on One Side and in Relief on the Other II,” https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_508_ad_20
Groeneveld/Nuij, [Molding a Hollow on One Side and in Relief on the Other II](/#essays/ann_508_ad_20)

Noirot, [Molding, Modeling, Repairing](/#/essays/ann_504_ad_20)
Noirot, [Molding, Modeling, Repairing](/#essays/ann_504_ad_20)

Chiostrini/Palframan, [Molding a Rose](/#essays/ann_022_sp_15)

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Durkin/Smith, [Molding Fruits and Animals in Sugar](/#essays/ann_017_sp_15)

Smith/Making and Knowing Project, “Lifecasting in Ms. Fr. 640,” https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_511_ad_20
Smith/Making and Knowing Project, [Lifecasting in Ms. Fr. 640](/#essays/ann_511_ad_20)

Boyd/Palframan/Smith, "Molding with Cuttlefish Bone," https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_506_ad_20
Boyd/Palframan/Smith, [Molding with Cuttlefish Bone](/#essays/ann_506_ad_20)

### Painting on taffeta

Bowen/Lou, [Painting in Oil on Taffeta I](/#essays/ann_024_fa_15)

Bowen/Ou, [Painting in Oil on Taffeta Without the Oil Running](#essays/ann_025_fa_15)
Bowen/Ou, [Painting in Oil on Taffeta Without the Oil Running](/#essays/ann_025_fa_15)

Yar, [Painting in Oil on Taffeta II](/#essays/ann_062_fa_17)

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### Preservation

Sellar, “Keeping Dry Flowers,” http://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/nn_049_fa_16
Sellar, [Keeping Dry Flowers](/#essays/ann_049_fa_16)

Anantharaman/Smith, [Animals Dried in an Oven](/#essays/ann_502_ad_20)

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Donefer-Hickie, [Glassworking](/#essays/ann_052_fa_16)

Smith/Making and Knowing Project, “Lifecasting in Ms. Fr. 640,” https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_511_ad_20
Smith/Making and Knowing Project, [Lifecasting in Ms. Fr. 640](/#essays/ann_511_ad_20)

Wang/van Buren/Uchacz, “‘Perspective is Very Difficult,’” https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_516_ad_20
Wang/van Buren/Uchacz, [‘Perspective is Very Difficult’](/#essays/ann_516_ad_20)

## Material Imaginary
Especially interesting has been the insight provided by reconstruction into the author-practitioner’s system of knowledge about nature and the behavior of natural materials—his “material imaginary”—including qualitative material categories, such as hot, cold, wet, dry, fat, lean, sweet, and sour; material metaphors based on, for example, the materials of vermilion and of sulfur, which provided a means, not so much to signify material meaning (although they also enabled that), but, rather, to enact principles of material process. The author-practitioner’s vocabulary of moldmaking and casting conveys a conception of the material world as animate, such as veins of wax (*filons de cire*) and breathing holes (*souspirails*) to vent the mold (fol. 155r). The interactions between materials often demonstrate a view of materials being friendly or hostile. For example, “Latten is the enemy of gold & the friend of silver” (*Le letton est ennemy de lor & amy de largent*, fol. 121v). His material imaginary also included various areas or activities of emphasis, such as experimenting with the states and phases of materials, or trying to arrest ephemerality in living things through lifecasting, preserving plants and fruits, and taxidermy. In most of the recipes, we see that human utility is the overarching organizing principle in creating (mostly implicit) taxonomies of natural materials.
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