Lot Essay
"Text in Latin and English verse, translated by Philemon Holland. The commentary is a translation by Thomas Paynell of the original commentary of Arnaldus de Villanova" (Krivatsy).
Details
SALERNO. Regimen sanitatis Salerni; or, The schoole of Salernes ... with a commentary by P. H. [Philemon Holland], London: by B. Alsop, 1649[50], small 4°, reprint of the 1617 edition, woodcut title border (rather browned, some soiling and staining, a few corners torn away, red stain to lower margins of table, front free endpaper torn with slight loss to ms note on verso and repaired), 18th-century polished calf (rebacked). [Krivatsy 9498; Wing V384]
Provenance
Robert Wynne, ownership inscription to title dated 1659, name penned on fore-edge, two manuscript notes on front free endpaper signed with his initials; Dorothy Wynn, inscriptions on front and rear endpaper; other early manuscript notes to front and rear endpapers; later ownership inscription to title dated 1859 with two notes in the same hand on title verso.