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Du Bartas his Deuine weekes and workes / translated and dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie by Josuah Syluester.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PQ1616.E2 S8 1613
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.
- Standardized Title:
- Sepmaine. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Penn Provenance:
- Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945 (donor)
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 697 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 698-819 pages, 47 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Now fourthly corrected and augmented.
- Other Title:
- Deuine weekes and workes
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : By Humfrey Lownes, [1613]
- Contents:
- The first week, or, Birth of the vvorld
- Du Bartas his Second week
- Vrania, or, The heauenly muse
- The triumph of faith
- Tetrasticha, or, The quadrains of Guy de Faur
- Sonnets vpon the (late) miraculous peace in Fraunce
- A dialogue vpon the troubles past betwene Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and the laughing philosophers
- An ode of the loue and beauties of Astraea
- The profit of imprisonment / written in French by Odet de la Noue
- The historie of Iudith : in forme of a poem / penned in French by the noble poet G. Salust, Lord of Bartas ; Englished by Tho. Hudson.
- Notes:
- Date of publication taken from colophon.
- Signatures: A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴.
- Engraved t.p.; title within architectural border.
- Woodcuts: vignettes, printer's device (McKerrow no. 211), illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- "The first week, or, Birth of the vvorld"; "Du Bartas his Second week" and its subsections "Adam", "Noah", "Abraham" and "David"; "Tetrasticha, or, The Quadrains of Guy de Faur"; "Sonnets vpon the (late) miraculous peace in Fraunce"; "A dialogue vpon the troubles past betwene Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and the laughing philosophers"; and "The profit of imprisonment" have individual half-titles.
- "The historie of Iudith" has separate t.p. (dated 1613) and pagination, but signatures are continuous.
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1430:5 on UMI microfilm.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves A1 (title leaf) and A2 wanting; leaves A3 and 3H7 repaired at inner margin; leaf 3H8 repaired at bottom outer corner.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 21652
- ESTC S116459
- Contains:
- Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590. Histoire de Judith. English.
- 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:
- 34832575
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