[1021] Red oxide of lead, a much inferior pigment to cinnabar, or the minium of Chapter [36].
[1022] In Chapter [32] of this Book.
[1023] Dana informs us that minium is usually associated with galena and with calamine. Syst. Mineral, p. 495.
[1024] “Steriles.” Barren of silver, probably; though Hardouin thinks that it means “barren of lead.” Holland renders it “barraine and void of the right vermilion.”
[1027] When hired by the job for colouring walls or objects of art. See B. xxxv. c. [12].
[1028] See B. xvi. c. 12, and B. xxiv. c. 4.
[1029] “Candelis.” The Abate Requeno thinks that these “candelæ” were used as a delicate cauterium, simply to keep the wax soft, that it might receive a polish from the friction of the linen.
[1030] Hence the use of it in the middle ages; a reminiscence of which still exists in our word “rubric.”