Shelfmark
Ga.4.14(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Secreti. Part 1. English]
Title
The secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont containyng excellente remedies against diuerse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. A woorke well approued, verie profitable and necessarie for euery man. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition. / Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Willyam Warde.
Varying form of title
Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont.
Varying form of title
Secreti. Part 1.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Imprinted at London : By Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon VVight, Anno Domini 1580.
Physical description
[6], 117, [11] leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)
Note
With a final table of contents.
Note
A translation of part 1 of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.
Note
Woodcut title-page vignette; initials; head- and tail-pieces; printer's emblem below colophon on final page.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 298.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S100106
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso of first item.
Binding
Contemporary London mid brown calf; blind tooled frame of triple fillet and roll of gateway, fleur-de-lys, pomegranate, and rose, with central diamond of the same tools (roll is HE. b (5) in Oldham's English blind-stamped bindings, identified by Oldham as being from London); blind tooled single fillet on board edges; traces of clasps; beechwood boards; holes in boards for threading sewing supports visible; blind-tooled triple fillet on spine; four raised bands; ms endpapers, now detached; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Two leaves of contemporary manuscript notes on medical subjects ('De sensoribus interioribus') used as endpapers at front and rear.
Copy-specific note
First of four items bound in volume.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.5.13.
Subject
Formulas, recipes, etc. Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Added entry--name
Ward, William, 1534 - 1609 translator.
Added entry--name
Kingston, John, fl. 1553 - ca. 1584 printer.
Added entry--name
Wight, John, ? - 1589 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B46316