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HESSUS (EOBANUS HELIUS)
De tuenda bona valetudine, Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenholph, 1582

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HESSUS (EOBANUS HELIUS)

De tuenda bona valetudine, title in red and black, woodcut illustrations, contemporary calf, covers blindstamped with central oval arabesques, very worn, binder's waste utilizing Middle English manuscript (see below) [Adams E195; cf. Durling 2290; cf. Vicaire 331], 8vo, Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenholph, 1582

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BINDER'S WASTE FROM A MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT, preserving fragments of 28 lines of an unidentified verse, in a fourteenth or fifteenth century hand.

Eobanus, a humanist and distinguished poet, also studied medicine for several years. The book includes chapters on daily life, food, herbs, brewing beer and wine. Woodcuts include: a vomiting drunkard ("De ebrietate"), a man taking a siesta ("De somno meridiano"), a couple embracing in bed ("De venere"), a man crouched over a chamber-pot, and numerous footstuffs.

Provenance: Richard Hurrett; Daniel Powell; William Greaves of St. John's College, ownership inscriptions (the second on title, the others on endpapers).

Saleroom notices

The fragments are from the Middle English hagiographical compilation known to us as The South English Legendary (ed. Charlotte d'Evelyn and Anna Mill, Early English Text Society, original series, 235-236, 2 vol., London, 1956). They cover parts of lines 65-68, 76-100, 109-112, and 120-144 from the life of St. Vincent, and the hand probably dates from late in the second half of the fourteenth century. We are grateful to Professor Daniel Wakelin for identifying the fragment.

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