SALERNO. Regimen sanitatis Salerni, this boke teachinge all people to gouerne them in helthe is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1541, small 4°, fourth edition, in Latin and English, printed in black letter, woodcut architectural title border (title damaged at margins and laid down, soil marks to preliminaries, some pen trials and ink stains, scribble in red crayon at foot of B4v, S2 soiled at lower margin, b4 with large section of outer margin torn away, f1 to end dampstained in upper part of page, quires h and i wormed at lower margin, lacking final leaf, i4, the publisher's device, which is supplied in facsimile), modern calf. [Durling 3836; STC 21599]

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SALERNO. Regimen sanitatis Salerni, this boke teachinge all people to gouerne them in helthe is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1541, small 4°, fourth edition, in Latin and English, printed in black letter, woodcut architectural title border (title damaged at margins and laid down, soil marks to preliminaries, some pen trials and ink stains, scribble in red crayon at foot of B4v, S2 soiled at lower margin, b4 with large section of outer margin torn away, f1 to end dampstained in upper part of page, quires h and i wormed at lower margin, lacking final leaf, i4, the publisher's device, which is supplied in facsimile), modern calf. [Durling 3836; STC 21599]

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This English edition first appeared in 1528 with the original Latin verse of Joannes de Mediolano, and a translation of the Latin commentary attributed to Arnaldus de Villa Nova.

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