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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    have been after 1558, for the change of Boorde’s description of the Icelander, “Lytle I do care for matyns or masse ” (chap. vi. line 9, p. 141) into “Lytle do I care for anye of gods seruasse,” shows that Mary’s reign was over; besides being a specimen of William Cop- lande’s notion of rimes. As we know further that William Coplande printed one book at least at the Three Cranes in the Vintry in 1561 —Tyndale’s Parable of the Wicked Mammon—we may at once identify the Lothbury edition with that which was licensed to William Coplande in 1562-3,1 as appears by the following entry (omitted by Mr Collier2) on leaf 90 of the first Register of the Stationers’ Company : W. Coplande Recevyd of William Coplande, for his lycense 1 for pryntinge of [a] boke intituled “the intro- \ iiijd duction to knowlege ” ) Of Coplande’s first, or Rose-Garland, edition, a unique copy was known in Mr Heber’s library; but I could not hear of it, when first preparing the present volume, and was obliged to apply to the Com- mittee of the Chetham Library for the loan of their copy of the 2nd, or Lothbury, edition. This they most kindly granted me ; and Mr W. H. Hooper had copied and cut all the ‘ pyctures ’ in it, and the reprint was partly set-up, when a letter to that great possessor of old- book treasures, Mr S. Christie-Miller of Britwell House, brought me a courteous answer that he had the first edition, that I might correct the reprint of the second by it, and that Mr Hooper might copy the cuts—nine in number—that differed from those in the 2nd edition. These things have accordingly been done, and the varying cuts of the 2nd edition put into, or referred to in, the notes. The differences in the texts of the two editions are very slight, barring the Boulogne, King, and Mass passages noticed on this page and the foregoing one. § 4. The Dedications to the Introduction and the Dyetary, and the publication of the latter in 1542 (or 1543), coupled with the opening words of Barnes in Defence of the Berde which we quoted above, p. 17, leave no doubt in my mind that this last tract was written and 1 This enables us too to settle that the other Lothbury books were printed after the Three-Cranes books. (One Lothbury book is dated 1566.) 2 See p. 14, above.