A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines, apperteyning vnto phisick and surgerie / long tyme practysed of the expert and reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes, and which in hys latter dayes hee dyd publishe vnto a vniuersail benefit, hauing vnto that tyme reserued it onely vnto himselfe, as a most priuate and precyous treasure ; translated out of Italian into English by Richard Androse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.

Contributor:

Androse, Richard, active 16th century.

Denham, Henry, -1589?, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Secreti. Pt. 4. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Pharmacy--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacy.

Formulas, recipes, etc--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages, 56, 64, 56 pages : coat of arms ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Fourth and last part of the Secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Henry Denham, 1569.

Language Note:

Translation into English of part 4 of Ruscelli's Secreti.

Notes:

Alessio Piemontese is a pseudonym used by Girolamo Ruscelli. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A⁴ a-c⁴ B-Z⁴.

Numerous errors in paging.

Title page within woodcut border; woodcut device (McK. no. 301), coat of arms, initials, and tail-pieces.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Identified as STC 276:03 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: last page mended at lower corner with no loss of text.

Bound with: Ruscelli, Girolamo. The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount. Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman, for Iohn Wight, anno domini 1568. [STC (2nd ed.) 297]

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 309

ESTC S100486

OCLC:

14213417