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Six excellent treatises of life and death / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, Sieur du Plessis: and now (first) translated into English.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Early works to 1800.
- Death.
- Life--Early works to 1800.
- Life.
- Genre:
- Borders (Type evidence) -- England -- London -- 1607.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (540 unnumbered pages)
- Other Title:
- Discourse of life and death
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London : By H. L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Bishops head, 1607.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Plato his Axiocus; a dialogue entreating of death
- A discourse of Tvllivs Cicero's, concerning death
- Collections out of Seneca's Works, touching life and death
- A sermon of mortality / made by S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
- A treatise of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, touching the benefit and happinesse of death
- Certain places of Scripture, prayers and meditations, concerning life and death.
- Notes:
- Printer's name suggested by STC (2nd edition).
- Imprint at colophon reads: At London imprinted by H.L., for Mathew Lownes: and are to bee sold at his shoppe in Pauls church-yarde, at the signe of the Bishop's head. 1607.
- The translator to the reader. Here knowe, that the first discourse, mentioned in the aduertisement ensuing, is none of these sixe ... but another ... formerly translated by the Countesse of Pembroke [id est Mornay's A discovrse of life and death]"--A2v.
- Axiochus not in fact by Plato. Based on the Latin text of R. Welsdalius's edition, 1568. Both the translation and the speech have been attributed to A. Munday. Cf. ESTC.
- Stationer's Register: Ent. 15 ja. [1607]. Cf ESTC.
- With a penultimate colophon leaf on Z5r; last leaf is blank except for margin ruling.
- Title within line border; initials; printed marginalia.
- Signatures: A-Y¹² Z⁶.
- Imperfect: stained and tightly bound with some loss of text.
- Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2414:6) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition), 18155
- ESTC, S94239
- OCLC:
- 838153954
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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