De Re Metallica (1556)

Title: De Re Metallica
Author: Georgius Agricola, translation by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 1950
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Note: Resource kindly indicated by Goran Budija

The Materials of the Painter's Craft (1910)

Title: The Materials of the Painter's Craft in Europe and Egypt: from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use
Author: Arthur Pillans Laurie
Publisher: T. N. Foulis
Year: 1910
Pages: 444
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Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Egyptian Pigments and Mediums
3. Classical Methods: Introduction
4. Classical Methods: The Pigments
5. Classical Methods: The Wax Medium
6. Classical Methods: The Other Medium Used for Panel Pictures
7. Classical Methods: Wall Painting
8. The Further History of Fresco-Painting
9. The Manuscript of the Monk Theophilus
10. The Book of the Art, by Cennino Cennini
11. On the Painting of Illuminated Manuscripts
12. On the Preparation of the Lakes used by the Old Masters
13. The History of the Oil Medium: Introductory Remarks and the Nature and History of Varnishes
14. The History of the Oil Medium, continued with some account of Sixteenth or Seventeenth Century Pigments and Methods of Preparing Canvas Grounds

Original Treatises (1849)

Title: Original Treatises, Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting
Author: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield
Publisher: J. Murray
Year: 1849
Pages: 643 + 612
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http://www.archive.org/... (vol. 2)
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http://www.archive.org/... (vol. 2)

Table of contents:

Volume I
Chapter I. On the state of society and of the Arts during the Middle Ages
Chapter II. Miniature Painting
Chapter III. Mosaics
Chapter IV. Glass
Chapter V. On Gilding and other Arts
Chapter VI. Painting in Oil
Manuscripts of Jehan Le Begue
Manuscripts of S. Audemar
Manuscripts of Eraclius
Manuscripts op Archerius

Volume II
Bolognese Manuscript
Segreti per colori
Marciana Manuscript
Paduan Manuscript
Volpano Manuscript
Brussels Manuscript
Extracts from an Original Manuscript
Extracts from a Dissertation