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The Secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containyng excellente remedies against diuerse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat more enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Secretes of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containyng excellente remedies against diuerse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions, and meltynges. Newlie corrected and amended, and also somewhat more enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the firste edition

Other titles: Secreti; Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC GB C16/17/ALE

Creator(s): Alessio Piemontese

Additional creator(s): Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565) (Other); Ward, William (1534-1609) (Other)

Related people: Ruscelli, Girolamo; Ward, William

Publisher: By Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon VVight

Publication city: Imprinted at London

Date(s): anno Domini 1580

Language: English

Size and medium: [6], 117, [11] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/297919

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003792499705181

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Written originally in Italian and first published in 1555 (?). The first English edition appeared in 1558, printed by J. Kingston for N. England, whose device (McKerrow 138) is retained on the title-page to this edition. J. Wight's device (McKerrow 205) is found at the end.


A translation of part 1 of a French version of: De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.


Mostly in black letter.


The sentence "Newlie corrected.." precedes the translation statement on the title page.


Alessio Piemontese is a pseudonym, possibly of Girolamo Ruscelli.


Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont.


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 298.

Additional description

Bound with 2 other publications by the same author. Volume contents: 1. The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont, 1580. -- 2. The seconde part of the secretes, [1580]. -- 3. The third and last part of the secretes, 1578. A Fourth ad finall booke, wanting from this collection, was first published in 1569 and re-issued in 1578. An edition of the four parts (by P. Short for T. Wight), with continuous signatures, appeared in 1595

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