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Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...
LIBRA STC 6826
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LIBRA STC 6827
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1685:4.
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel I-4:17.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; I-4:17.
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1685:4.
- Standardized Title:
- Dictes and sayings of the philosophers.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 156 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Where it is so that euery humayn creature by the suffrance of our lord god is born and ordeigned to be subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune.
- Where it is so that every humayn creature by the suffrance of our lord god is born and ordeigned to be subgette and thral unto the stormes of fortune.
- Place of Publication:
- [Westminster] : [Printed by William Caxton], [not after 18 Nov. 1477]
- Notes:
- A translation, by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, of a French version by Guillaume de Tignonville of a compilation ultimately based on: Mubashshir ibn Featik, Abeu al-Wafea'. Mukhtear al-rhikam wa-marheasin al-kalim.
- Revised and edited by William Caxton.
- Title from opening words of colophon, [K]2r, which reads: Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres enprynted, by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.lxxvij. Whiche book is late translated out of Frenshe into englyssh. by the noble and puissant lord Lord Antone Erle of Ryuyers lord of Scales [and] of the Ile of wyght ..
- Text on [A]1r begins: Where it is so that euery humayn creature by the suffraence of our lord god is boren [and] ordeigned to be subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune ..
- For publication date see Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 77-82.
- Signatures: [A-I KF].
- The first leaf and the last two leaves are blank.
- A later state (STC 6827) has an added colophon on p. [K]4v.
- Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the British Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1938, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; I-4:17, 1685:04). s1938 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 6826.
- Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 26.
- Duff 123.
- GW 8321.
- OCLC:
- 61365171
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