Du Bartas his Deuine weekes and workes / translated, and dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, by Josuah Syluester.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

• Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.
• Hudson, Thomas, active 16th century-17th century.
• Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer.
• Johnson, Arthur, -1631, bookseller.
• STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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