To make Ynke

Wryting Inke
WRyting Inke tempered with water, wyne, or vinegar, wherein Woormwood hath bene stie|ped: Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters writ|ten with that Inke. And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt, is safe from mothes: and if there be any there, it wyll driue them awaye. Diascorides.

Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things, 1579



To make blacke Ynk very good.
TAke a pound and a halfe of raine water, with three vnces of the waighttest Galles you can finde, bruse them into small peeces and poore them into the said water and let it stande two daies in the sunne. Then put to it two vnces of Ro|maine vitriolle wel colored and beate~ small, and mixe all well togither with a sticke of a Figge tree, & leaue it againe two daies more in the Sunne. Finally put to it an vnce of Gomme Arabicke that is eleere and bright and beaten into pouder, and an vnce of the pill of Pomegranades, and than boile it a little with a slowe fier: that doen straine it, and kepe it in a vessell of Leade or Glasse, and it will be very blacke and per|fite good.

To make Greene Ynke.
TAke Verdegris elect & fayer, and make it into past with a little strong Vinagre and distilled water of Grene galle, and let it drie, and whan you will write with it te~per it with the same water of greene gall putting to it a little gomme Arabike.

Girolamo Ruscelli, The Seconde Part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont, 1560


The Maner to make Ynke
Take a pottel of reyne wat' and breke half a ll. of galle, eche galle in iij. or iiij. pec?, and lete this galle stode in y forsayd water iiij. or v. dayes, and than poure out y vpermost of the water, and put therto di. ll. weyght off vitryol in pouder, and put therin in an erthen vessel, and stere hem wel togeyd', and stoppe the potte than none eyer cum therto, and lete it stonde a daye and a nyght, and then take di. ll. off gome of stryter weyght than was y vitryoll and put it therto, and stoppe ayen the pott, and stere it aboute, and at iij. or iiij. dayes ende then take the forsayd gallis and drye them in the sonne, and breke them smaller then they were, and put therto a quartir and di. of water, and lete hem stode vij. nyghtes, and pure out the cler water, and put therto lesse than a q.' of vitrioll in small pouder, and doo as is before sayde, and put therto lesse weight of gome then of the vitriol, and wyth that later ynke temper y fyrst ynke when nede is, and yf tho tempre good ynke wyth semple water, it wyl turne to corrupcion, and the iij. tyme sethe the galle in water tyl the be softe, and porcion the remenant as is before sayde. Use and crafte shal teche the better, &c.

The Customs of London, 1503


More recipes available in
Medieval Arabic Bookmaking and its relation to early Chemistry and Pharmacology by Martin Levey of Yale University, available for free download at:
http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/books/Levey-1962/Levey-1962-Medieval-Arabic-Bookmaking-Ibn-Badis-01-23.pdf

The Craftsman's Handbook: "Il Libro dell' Arte" by Cennino d'Andrea Cennini, translated by Jr. Daniel V. Thompson, 1954 has some info on page 116-117 on drawing with pen & ink, washes of ink, and making ink for block printing on cloths.
https://www.amazon.com/Craftsmans-Handbook-Libro-dell-Arte/dp/048620054X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475336413&sr=8-1&keywords=cennino+cennini

Theophilus has five mentions of ink in his On Divers Arts.
https://www.amazon.com/Divers-Arts-Dover-Art-Instruction/dp/0486237842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475336360&sr=8-1&keywords=theophilus+on+divers+arts