Governayle of helthe.

Accession number: 
PML 35060
Uniform title: 
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum. English.
Published: 
[Westminster] : [William Caxton], [about 1490]
Description: 
[18] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1938.
Notes: 

Title from leaf A1r: In this tretyse that is cleped Governayle of helthe: What is to be sayd wyth crystis helpe of some theynges that longen to bodily helthe...
Imprint from type and paper evidence.
Printed in Caxton's type 6:119B.
Collation: A-B⁸ [C]²: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.6 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-stamped sprinkled calf over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 6 supports; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper flyleaves.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Governal of health

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Shelf mark, unidentified: 34 III C (front fly leaf verso); bookplate, unidentified: three-tiered stack of books with monogram J.J.M(?) in roundel on scroll in front of books (front pastedown); William John Tollemache Dysart (1859-1935) Earl of Dysart; Dysart (Ham House) sale, Sotheby's, 31 May 1938, to Quaritch (F.S. Ferguson collation note, 31.v.1938, on rear fly) for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1938.
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