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The secretes of the reuerende Mayster Alexis of Piemount. Conteinying many excelle[n]t remedies agaynst dyuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.

General note: A translation of part 1 of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Henry Sutton, dvvellyng in Pater noster rovve, at the signe of the blacke Moryan. Anno a` virgineo partu 1559. With 20 final contents pages. Variant: imprint omits day and month. Signature: a4 [hand]4 A-Q8 R4; -B4-5; MS. ink note on inside front board (a recipe for a medicine?); MS. ink and pencil notes, marks and inscriptions in various hands on fly leaves and throughout; bound with Ruscelli, Girolamo. The second part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis ... London: Hall, for Englande, 1563, and Ruscelli, Girolamo. The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of ... Maister Alexis ... London: Hall, for Englande, 1562 UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 295 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1943. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English Books, 1475-1640; 164:05). Ownership and custodial history: Early MS. ink signatures on t.p.: "John Marsh" and "W. Bradley"; MS. pencil inscription on t.p.: "this bought at Warwick May 31, 1707, cost me Joseph Barber I1s"; donated by Dr D.S. Murray UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Bound in leather; blind stamped device and initials, "R D", inscription on boards: "Cato Maior Principiis" UK-SuSCL