Bartas his Deuine weekes & workes / translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.

Contributor:

Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.

Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sepmaine. English

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Hall, Fitzedward, 1825-1901 (ex libris)

Jebb, John, 1775-1833 (bookplate)

James, Daniel (autograph)

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

38 unnumbered pages, 160, 169-383 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 386-387, 390-435 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 438-495 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 499-660 pages, 29 unnumbered pages, 674-715 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Deuine weekes and workes

Place of Publication:

[At London]: [Printed by Humfrey Lownes ...], 1605 [that is, 1606]

Contents:

The first vveeke, or, Birth of the world

The second vveeke, or, Childhood of the world

I. Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his Second weeke

Fragments and other small vvorkes of Bartas

Sonnets vpon the (late) miraculous peace in Fraunce

A dialogue vpon the troubles past betweene Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and the laughing philosophers

An ode of the loue and beauties of Astraea

The profit of imprisonment, a paradox vvritten in French by Odet de la Noue

Tetrastika, or, The quadrains of Guy de Faur.

Notes:

"Another issue, with cancel engraved title page lacking imprint, of STC 21649. Imprint taken from T2r title page."--ESTC.

Signatures: pi1 A⁸(A8+'A6'.1) B-2I⁸ 2K⁸(2K6+2K*² 2L*-3F*⁴ 3G*²) 2L-2X⁸ 2X*⁴ 2Y-3A⁸ (2K*1, t.p., signed 2K*7).

First leaf blank except for signature; leaf 2X*4 blank.

"A later state of STC 21649a, with 'I Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his second weeke' (2K*² 2L*-3F*⁴ 3G*²; [4], 154, [2] p.) inserted after 2K6. This section has title page dated 1606."--ESTC.

"The second vveeke" has separate title page with imprint "At London, printed by Humfrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the starre. 1605". "Fragments, and other small vvorkes of Bartas" and "The profit of imprisonment. A paradox, vvritten in French by Ode de la Noue, Lord of Teligni ... Translated by Iosuah Syluester", a translation of "Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités", each has a divisional title page dated 1605. "Tetrastika [Greek]. Or The quadrains of Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac. Translated, by Iosuah Syluester", a translation of the "Quatrains", has separate title page with imprint "At London printed by Humfrey Lownes. 1605". Pagination and signatures are continuous at these points. Cf. ESTC.

Engraved t.p.; title within architectural border.

Woodcuts: vignettes, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf 2X*3v.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1714:1 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste. Posthumus Bartas. II, The fore-noone of the fourth day of his second weeke. Imprinted at London : By Humfrey Lownes, 1607.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf A1 (blank) wanting; leaf 2K8 and gathering 2L wanting; "I. Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his second weeke" misbound at end of work; numerous other misbindings, missignings and insertions throughout.

Penn Libraries copy has title leaf mounted on an inserted blank leaf; a few ms. inscriptions in ink or pencil.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 21649a.5

ESTC S1703

Contains:

Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584. Quatrains. English

La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, -1618. Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités. English

OCLC:

55583472