[The birth of mankinde, otherwyse named The womans booke].

  • Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526.
Date:
[c.1590]
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Credit: [The birth of mankinde, otherwyse named The womans booke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L be it fome jYijhrcbus may perhappes fincic fome lacke of faythfulnes and dhigence in this worke: yet there is none fo fro- wardc to deny $ but that there is fome fruite and . profyte to be founde therein^ feeing that it commeth now abrode muche more enlarged and en- creafed, and more diligently corrcfted^then it was e* fore eyther in the Latine 0r in the Jinglyfhe. And where before in the other printes, there lacked matter neceflarie to the opening and declaration of the Figures parteyning to the inner partes it is now fo playnely fet footth .that the Gmplell Mydwyfe which can reade, may both vnderltande for her-better inftruaion, and ^ alfo other women that haue neede or her helper t c more commoditie. VVherefore my delire is, that it may be reccyued and prabilled of Mydwyucs and all other Matrones/with no ieffe foe- cefle then it is with good wyll and delire written to profit^ and to do good to other.