REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI. This boke teachinge all people to governe them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1541. 8vo, 192 x 134 mm. (7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.), contemporary dark brown calf over pasteboard, covers panelled in blind with roll of medallion heads and foliate ornament (not in Oldham), at center a blind-tooled circle surrounded by small repeated tools to resemble the sun's rays, rebacked in blind-tooled calf, worn, lacking 5 preliminary text leaves [A]2-6, some fraying to edges, lower fore-corners worn, penultimate leaf (i3) with two 3-inch repaired tears and fore-margin restored, minor marginal tears to fol. f1-2, mostly marginal dampstaining, some softening to edges of last few leaves, scattered soiling, early owner's signature on title-page; bookplate. Fourth English edition, mostly black letter (Latin verses in roman type), title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 16), woodcut initials, Berthelet's woodcut device on last leaf (McKerrow 80). NLM/Durling 3836; STC 21599.The Regimen sanitatis, a popular medieval compilation of rules on diet and hygiene written in doggerel Latin verse and thought to have been produced at the school of Salerno between the eleventh and fourteenth-centuries, consists of a "catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession" (Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 20). Over 300 fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions in nearly every European language are recorded. Paynell's version, first published by Berthelet in 1528 and regulary reprinted (STC lists eleven editions) , was the first and only English translation until Sir J. Harington's translation appeared in 1607.

REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI. This boke teachinge all people to governe them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1541. 8vo, 192 x 134 mm. (7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.), contemporary dark brown calf over pasteboard, covers panelled in blind with roll of medallion heads and foliate ornament (not in Oldham), at center a blind-tooled circle surrounded by small repeated tools to resemble the sun's rays, rebacked in blind-tooled calf, worn, lacking 5 preliminary text leaves [A]2-6, some fraying to edges, lower fore-corners worn, penultimate leaf (i3) with two 3-inch repaired tears and fore-margin restored, minor marginal tears to fol. f1-2, mostly marginal dampstaining, some softening to edges of last few leaves, scattered soiling, early owner's signature on title-page; bookplate. Fourth English edition, mostly black letter (Latin verses in roman type), title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 16), woodcut initials, Berthelet's woodcut device on last leaf (McKerrow 80). NLM/Durling 3836; STC 21599. The Regimen sanitatis, a popular medieval compilation of rules on diet and hygiene written in doggerel Latin verse and thought to have been produced at the school of Salerno between the eleventh and fourteenth-centuries, consists of a "catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession" (Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 20). Over 300 fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions in nearly every European language are recorded. Paynell's version, first published by Berthelet in 1528 and regulary reprinted (STC lists eleven editions) , was the first and only English translation until Sir J. Harington's translation appeared in 1607.

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REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNI. This boke teachinge all people to governe them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel. London: Thomas Berthelet, 1541. 8vo, 192 x 134 mm. (7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.), contemporary dark brown calf over pasteboard, covers panelled in blind with roll of medallion heads and foliate ornament (not in Oldham), at center a blind-tooled circle surrounded by small repeated tools to resemble the sun's rays, rebacked in blind-tooled calf, worn, lacking 5 preliminary text leaves [A]2-6, some fraying to edges, lower fore-corners worn, penultimate leaf (i3) with two 3-inch repaired tears and fore-margin restored, minor marginal tears to fol. f1-2, mostly marginal dampstaining, some softening to edges of last few leaves, scattered soiling, early owner's signature on title-page; bookplate. Fourth English edition, mostly black letter (Latin verses in roman type), title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 16), woodcut initials, Berthelet's woodcut device on last leaf (McKerrow 80). NLM/Durling 3836; STC 21599.

The Regimen sanitatis, a popular medieval compilation of rules on diet and hygiene written in doggerel Latin verse and thought to have been produced at the school of Salerno between the eleventh and fourteenth-centuries, consists of a "catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession" (Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 20). Over 300 fifteenth- and sixteenth-century editions in nearly every European language are recorded. Paynell's version, first published by Berthelet in 1528 and regulary reprinted (STC lists eleven editions) , was the first and only English translation until Sir J. Harington's translation appeared in 1607.