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BORDE, Andrew [or BOORDE] (1490?-1549). The Breuiary of Healthe, for all manner of sycknesses and diseases the which may be in man or woman, doth folowe. Expressynge the obscure terms termes of Greeke, Araby, Latyn, and Barbary, in English concernyng Phisicke and Chierurgerie [The Seconde Boke of the Breuyary of Healthe, named the Extravagantes foloweth], [London: Wyllyam Powell], 1557, 2 parts in one volume, small 4°, third edition, ff. 123, [5], 27, [1], titles to each part within elaborate woodcut border incorporating the printer's monogram, full-page woodcut illustration to verso of main title, printed in black letter, 4- to 6-line woodcut historiated and ornamental initials, with blank Q8 at end of the first part (C3, C6 and a few other leaves repaired at extreme edges or corners, small soil mark to C1v), modern brown morocco. [STC 3375]
Provenance
John Smyth [purchased from] Roger Rollandson 1588, inscription to blank margin of title, and with copious manuscript marginalia in Latin throughout the book providing Latin names for the various illnesses and remedies being discussed in the vernacular, presumably in the hand of John Smyth, although a few notes are in another contemporary hand. These notes are extended on one blank at the front and two at the end. Also with a manuscript index, in another hand, probably 17th century, on 4 blank leaves at the front.
