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Du Bartas his Deuine weekes and workes / translated, and dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, by Josuah Syluester.
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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:
- Jackson, Henry (bookplate)
- Bowles, Frisworth (autograph, 1672)
- Hall, Elnor (autograph)
- Grimly, Edward (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 34 unnumbered pages, 697 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 698-819 pages, 47 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm (4to)
- Edition:
- Now thirdly corrected & augmented.
- Other Title:
- Deuine weekes and workes
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : By Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sould by Arthur Iohnson ...], [1611]
- Contents:
- Du Bartas his First week
- Du Bartas his Second weeke
- 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 betweene Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and the laughing philosophers
- 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:
- Bookseller's name and date of publication from colophon.
- Signatures: pi1 A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴.
- Engraved t.p.; title within architectural border.
- Woodcuts: illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- "Du Bartas, his First week"; "Du Bartas his Second weeke" 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 betweene Heraclitus and Democritus, the weeping and the laughing philosophers"; and "The profit of imprisonment" have individual half-titles.
- "The historie of Iudith" has separate dated t.p. and pagination, but signatures are continuous.
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1393:01 on UMI microfilm.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: gatherings 3L-3R wanting (missing text supplied by leaves 3P4-3X4 from the 1608 edition bound in their place); hole in leaf 3D8 with minor loss of text; leaf Y2 torn at top margin with damage to page numbers; title leaf detached and mounted on an inserted blank leaf; leaf A1 repaired at inner margin.
- Penn Libraries copy has a few ms. marginal inscriptions and marks in ink.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 21651
- ESTC S110823
- 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:
- 3461796
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