The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall.

  • Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor : A compendyous regyment; or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier / compyled by Andrewe Boorde, of physycke doctour. Barnes in the defence of the berde: a treatyse made, answerynge the treatyse of Doctor Borde upon berdes / edited, with a life of Andrew Boorde, and large extracts from his Brevyary, by F.J. Furnivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DYETARY OF 1562. INTRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE. [§ 2, 3. The possibility that the undated dedicationless Wyer was issued before 1542, and that the 1542 edition was the second, is negatived by Mr Eye’s opinion on the types of the two editions, and perhaps by the omission of two of the woodcuts, the change of the third, and the re- sults of the collation. Of later editions I know only that of 1562, ‘ imprinted by me Thomas Colwel in the house of Robert Wyer’: see page 11. By that fatality which usually attends the most unsatis- factory plan of “ Extracts,” Mr Collier has in his “ Extracts ” missed the only two entries in the Stationers’ Registers relating to Boorde’s books that I wanted, namely, that of this 1562 edition of the Dyetary, and the Lothbury edition of the Introduction. The entry as to Colwel’s print of the Dyetary is : T. colwell Recevyd of Thomas Colwell,1 for his fyne, for that 4 he prented the Deatory of lielthe / the Assyce of > xijcZ. breade And Ale, with arra pater,2 wit7tout lycense. ) Company of Stationers’ First Register, leaf 77, in the list of Fines, 22 July 1561, to 22 July 1562. Lowndes enters other editions of “ 1564 (White Knights 507, mor. 9s. 1567 Perry pt. i, 468, 9s. Bindley pt. i. 460, 11s.) 1576.” As the date of the Dedication to the Dyetary is 5 May, 1542, while that of the Introduction is 3 May, 1542,1 have put the former after the latter, though it (the Dyetary) was published five years be- fore the Introduction. Still, the Introduction, the Dyetary, and the Breuyary (examined 1546, published 1547) were all written by Boorde by the year 1542. § 3. The fyrst Bole of the Introduction of Knowledge. This book was dedicated to the Princess Mary, afterwards Queen, daughter of Henry VIII, on May 3, 1542. It was intended to have a second book, in which the vices of Rome were mentioned,3 and which second book may therefore4 have been the Breuyary, as the vices of Rome are mentioned in its 2nd part, the Extravagantes, fol. v, back. It 1 Colwell was admitted a freeman of the Stationers’ Company on the 30th of August, 1560. 2 An Almanack. See entries in Stat. Reg., and Hazlitt’s Handbook. 3 In the Introduction, chap, xxiii (repr.sign. R), Boorde says, “Who so wvl see more of Rome & Italy, let him loke in the second boke, the .lxvii. chap- ter” (p. 178 below). * I don’t think it was so.