Biathanatos : a declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise : wherein the nature, and the extent of all those lawes, which seeme to be violated by this act, are diligently surveyed / written by John Donne ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donne, John, 1572-1631

Contributor:

Donne, John, 1604-1662.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800.

Suicide.

Suicide--Early works to 1800.

Suicide--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 unnumbered pages, 218, id est 220 pages)

Other Title:

Declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1648.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Title tranliterated from Greek.

Edited by the author's son, John Donne, who signed "The epistle dedicatory."

Consists of the sheets (except signature S, pages 137-144) of the original undated edition, published (probably in 1646) with t.p.: Biathanatos : a declaration of that paradoxe, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sinne, that it may never be otherwise ... / written by Iohn Donne ... ; published by authoritie. London : Printed by J. Dawson. Cf. Donne, J. Biathanatos, 1930, pages 71-77.

"Written in 1608, and published, contrary to Donne's command, by his son"--Grolier. Wither to Prior, volume 1, pages 238.

Marginal notes.

Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 378:21) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing D1859

Keynes, G. Bibl. of John Donne 48

McAlpin Coll. II 560

OCLC:

11710360

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