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Reduce gum ammoniac into powder, and dissolve it in gum arabic water,

to which a little garlic juice has been added. This water will not

dissolve the ammonia so as to form a transparent liquid; for the

result will be a milky liquor. With the liquor form your letters or

ornaments on paper or vellum, with a pen or fine camels'-hair brush;

then let them dry, and afterwards breathe on them some time, till they

become moist; then apply a few bits of leaf gold to the letters, which

you press down gently with cotton wool. When the whole is dry, brush

off the superfluous gold with a large camels'-hair brush, and, to make

it more brilliant, burnish with a dog's tooth.



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