The essayes of a prentise, in the diuine art of poesie.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

James I, King of England, 1566-1625.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 251:3.

Language:

Scots

Physical Description:

128 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Essayes of a prentise, in the divine art of poesie

Vranie translated.

Uranie translated.

Ane metaphoricall inuention of a tragedie called Phoenix.

Ane metaphoricall invention of a tragedie called Phoenix.

Paraphrasticall translation out of the poete Lucane.

Ane schort treatise.

CIIII. Psalme.

Essayes of a prentise, in the divine art of poesie.

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at Edinburgh : By Thomas Vautroullier, 1585.

Notes:

By James I, whose name (Jacobus Sextus) appears in an acrostic on A1r.

In verse, mostly in Scots dialect.

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regali.

Signatures: *4 A-P4.

"The Vranie translated", "Ane metaphoricall inuention of a tragedie called Phoenix", "A paraphrasticall translation out of the poete Lucane", "Ane schort treatise", "The CIIII. Psalme" each has divisional title page; register is continuous.

"The Uranie" is a translation of "L'Uranie ou Muse celeste" by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, with French and English on facing pages.

A variant of the edition dated 1584.

The two National Library of Scotland copies have different typesettings on P1v-2r.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1945. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 251:03). s1945 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 14374.

OCLC:

55159646