Shelfmark
Ga.4.14(04)
Author
Uniform title
[Secreti. Part 4. English]
Title
A verye excellent and profitable booke conteyning sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines, appertayning vn to physicke and surgerie, long time practysed of the expert and reuerende Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes and which in his latter dayes he did publishe vnto a vniuersall benefite, hauing vnto that time reserued it onely vnto himselfe, as a most pryuate and precious tresure. / Translated out of Italian into Englishe, by Richard Androse.
Varying form of title
Secreti. Part 4
Publication, distribution, etc.
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Wyght, 1578.
Physical description
[32], 52, 57, 2, 2-50 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Note
In three books; the third book begins with p. 1 on the verso of p. 57; the following page number 2 is duplicated.
Note
A translation of part 4 of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.
Note
Signatures: A⁴ a-c⁴ B-X⁴.
Note
Title within frame of type ornaments; initials; printer's emblem above colophon on final page.
Note
Colophon on final page: Imprinted at London for Iohn VVight dvvelling in Paules Churchyard, at the North doore of Paules. Anno Domini. 1578.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 310.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S100104
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
Fourth 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
Androse, Richard, active 16th century - ? translator.
Added entry--name
Wight, John, ? - 1589 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B46319