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[Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum]. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni. This booke teachyng all people to governe the[m] in health...translated...by Thomas Paynell. London: William How for Abraham Veale, 1557.
8o (135 x 91 mm). Black letter, headlines and shoulder notes in roman, title within woodcut typographical border. (Light dampstains, small wormtrack in gutter margins of L1-M5, margins of three leaves in quire R stained, corner of X8 torn away with loss of foliation.) Eighteenth-century sheep, gilt spine, gilt-lettered morocco label, blank leaves A4 and Z4 present (rubbed at extremities, new endleaves).
Fifth edition in English (first, 1528) of this popular medieval medical poem on the preservation of health. The verses are in Latin, while the lengthy and detailed commentary and interpretations are in English. NLM/Durling 3837; STC 21600; Wellcome 5389; Norman 1819 ("the only English version...available until the seventeenth century").
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Fifth edition in English (first, 1528) of this popular medieval medical poem on the preservation of health. The verses are in Latin, while the lengthy and detailed commentary and interpretations are in English. NLM/Durling 3837; STC 21600; Wellcome 5389; Norman 1819 ("the only English version...available until the seventeenth century").