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33" BEN
and there they are beafen to the degree of thinnefs required*
The leaves, being thus finifhed, are taken out of the mould,
and difpofed in little paper books prepared with red bole, to,
hinder the gold from fticking ; each book ufually contains
twenty-five leaves. Tffoefe hooks are of two fizes, twenty-five
leaves of the fmalleft, of which weigh but five or fix grains j
and twenty-five of the largeft, nine or ten grains.
BEAUTY. Heavenly Beauty has been reprefented by an
exceeding fine woman, naked, finding upright, with her hand
reaching the clouds, and encornpaiTed with rays, holding in one
hand a lily, and in the other a celeftial globe.
Domemco BECCAFUMI, otherwife called Micarino de Si-
ena, born in the year 1484, copied after P. Perugino, and ftu-
died after Michael Angelo and Raphael ; lived at Rome and
Siena, excelled in hiftory, painting, and fculpture, and died in
the year 1549, aged fixty-five years.
The BEGINNING, is reprefented by a refplendent ray in
a ftarry fky, enlightening the earth adorned with plants, fur-
rounding a youth, with a cloud covering his privy members ;
he holding in one hand the figure of nature, and with the left
a fquare, wherein is the letter A alpha. The ray denotes the
power of God being the firft acent ; the ftars, the power of the
planets, the principle of generation ; nature, the beginning of
motion ; the alpha A, the beginning of the Greek vowels, with-
out which no word can be exprefled.
Giovanni BELLINI, born in 1421, lived at Venice, difcl-r
pie of his father Giacomo, excelled in hiftory, portraiture, and
architecture, died in the year 1511, aged ninety years.
Gentile Bellini, born in the year 1421, difciple of his fa-
ther Giacomo, lived at Venice and Conftantinople, excelled
in hiftory, portraiture, and architecture, died in the year 1501,
aged eighty years.
BEN, the Arabian name of a little nut, called, by the Latins,
nux unguentaria, and, by the Greeks, balanus myrepfica,
from which is drawn an oil of very great ufe in the art of per-
fuming.
To make the oil of Ben. Blanch the nuts and pound them
in a mortar, fprinkling them with wine; then put them into
an earthen or iron pan, and heat them hot; after that put them
into a linen cloth, and prefs them with an almond-prefs ; repeat
this till you have expreffed all the oil, and then you will have
the oil of Ben by expreffion.
This oil of Ben hath two properties ; the one is, that, having
no feent or odour of itfelf, it neither alters, changes, nor dimi-
nifhes the fcent of any perfume that is put into it; The other,
2 • that
and there they are beafen to the degree of thinnefs required*
The leaves, being thus finifhed, are taken out of the mould,
and difpofed in little paper books prepared with red bole, to,
hinder the gold from fticking ; each book ufually contains
twenty-five leaves. Tffoefe hooks are of two fizes, twenty-five
leaves of the fmalleft, of which weigh but five or fix grains j
and twenty-five of the largeft, nine or ten grains.
BEAUTY. Heavenly Beauty has been reprefented by an
exceeding fine woman, naked, finding upright, with her hand
reaching the clouds, and encornpaiTed with rays, holding in one
hand a lily, and in the other a celeftial globe.
Domemco BECCAFUMI, otherwife called Micarino de Si-
ena, born in the year 1484, copied after P. Perugino, and ftu-
died after Michael Angelo and Raphael ; lived at Rome and
Siena, excelled in hiftory, painting, and fculpture, and died in
the year 1549, aged fixty-five years.
The BEGINNING, is reprefented by a refplendent ray in
a ftarry fky, enlightening the earth adorned with plants, fur-
rounding a youth, with a cloud covering his privy members ;
he holding in one hand the figure of nature, and with the left
a fquare, wherein is the letter A alpha. The ray denotes the
power of God being the firft acent ; the ftars, the power of the
planets, the principle of generation ; nature, the beginning of
motion ; the alpha A, the beginning of the Greek vowels, with-
out which no word can be exprefled.
Giovanni BELLINI, born in 1421, lived at Venice, difcl-r
pie of his father Giacomo, excelled in hiftory, portraiture, and
architecture, died in the year 1511, aged ninety years.
Gentile Bellini, born in the year 1421, difciple of his fa-
ther Giacomo, lived at Venice and Conftantinople, excelled
in hiftory, portraiture, and architecture, died in the year 1501,
aged eighty years.
BEN, the Arabian name of a little nut, called, by the Latins,
nux unguentaria, and, by the Greeks, balanus myrepfica,
from which is drawn an oil of very great ufe in the art of per-
fuming.
To make the oil of Ben. Blanch the nuts and pound them
in a mortar, fprinkling them with wine; then put them into
an earthen or iron pan, and heat them hot; after that put them
into a linen cloth, and prefs them with an almond-prefs ; repeat
this till you have expreffed all the oil, and then you will have
the oil of Ben by expreffion.
This oil of Ben hath two properties ; the one is, that, having
no feent or odour of itfelf, it neither alters, changes, nor dimi-
nifhes the fcent of any perfume that is put into it; The other,
2 • that