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.

  • Andrew Boorde
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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    dyd make in Mountpyller, named the Introductory of knowlege, there shall you se many new matters / the whiche I have no doubte but that your grace wyl accept and lyke the boke, the whiche is a prynt- ynge hesyde saynt Dunstons churclie within Temple barre, oner agaynst the Temple.” (p. 227, col. 1, below.) (y) The Astronamye. The full title of this book, the only known copy of which is in the Cambridge University Library, is : “ The pryncyples / of Astronamye / the whiche / diligently per- scrutyd is in maner a / pronosticacyon to the worldes / end compvlyd by Andrew / Boord of phisick / Doctor /,” and the last words of the Preface are : “ And wher I haue ometted & lefft out mani matters apertayn- [yn]g to this boke, latt them loke in a book namyd the Introduction of knowleg, a boke of my makyng, the which ys aprintyng at old- Robert Coplands, the eldist printer of Ingland, the which doth print thes yere 1 mi pronosticacions.” Accordingly, the colophon is, “ Enprynted at London in ye Flete- strete / at the sygne of the Rose garland by / Robert Coplande.” The other references in this volume to Boorde’s other works are on B vii (not signed): “for this matter, looke in the Breuyary oflieltli and in the Introduccyon of knowleg.” C. ii. (not signed) “ And he that wyll haue the knowleg of all maner of sicknesses & dysesys, let them looke in the breuyary of helth, whiche is pryntyd at Wyllyam Mydyltons in flet stret.” The last paragraph of the Astronamye is : “IF Row to conclud, I desier euere man to tak this lytil wark for a pasttime.2 for T dyd wrett & make this bok in ,iiii. dayes, and wretten with one old pene with out mendyng. and wher I do wret ye sygnes in Aries, in Taurous, & in Leo, is, for my purpose it stond- yth best for our maternal tonge.” A further and earlier3 notice of the Introduction is found in the chaffy answer to Boorde’s lost attack on beards,4 which answer is 1 A friend reads thes yere as ‘these here ; ’ hut the words no doubt mean ‘ this year,’ and the pronosticacions may be one of those of which a title of one, and a fragment of another—or a supposed other—are in the British Museum. See below, p. 25, 26-27. 2 past time, oriy. 3 I take Barnes’s book to be of the year 1542 or 1543. * As a substitute, take parson Harrison's: “ Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are sliauen from the chin like those of Turks,