Du Bartas his diuine weekes, and workes : with a compleate collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full workes translated and written by yt famous philomusus, Iosuah Syluester Gent.

  • Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590
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[1621]
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Also known as

Works. English
History of Iudith.
History of Judith.
Du Bartas his divine weekes, and workes.
Mysterie of mysteries.

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by Humphray Lownes, [1621]

Physical description

32 unnumbered pages, 1,215 pages, 1 unnumbered page, folded leaf : illustrations, portrait (woodcuts)

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 21653.

Notes

In verse.
The title page is engraved and signed: R: Elstracke sculpsit.
Includes translations by Sylvester of works by Henry Smith; Guy du Faur, seigneur de Pibrac; Odet de La Noue, seigneur de Téligny; Girolamo Fracastoro; George Goodwin; and Pierre Matthieu. Also contains most of Sylvester's original works.
Publication date from colophon.
The first leaf is blank.
"The history of Iudith .. Englished by Tho. Hudson" has separate title page dated 1620. There are also numerous divisional titles; pagination and register are continuous throughout.
The folded leaf, bearing verses and woodcuts, has title "The mysterie of mysteries". In this setting the middle column line 1 has "coeternall".
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1079:7) s1999 miun s

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