Accession number
PML 76455.1
Creator
Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.
Published
[London] : [Printed by Humphrey Lownes], [1614]
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1980.
Notes
Imprint from STC.
"Bethulians rescue" and "Little Bartas", translations by Sylvester of poems by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas, both have separate divisional title pages, the first dated 1614. "Micro-cosmo-graphia ... from Latin Saphiks of ... Mr. Hen. Smith", a translation by Sylvester of "Vita supplicium", and "Lachrymæ lachrymarum" and "An elegiac-epistle consolatorie", original works by Sylvester, each have separate divisional title pages. Pagination and register are continuous throughout.
Signatures: A⁴ B-E⁸ F⁴ G-O⁸ P² Q-X⁸ Y⁴.
A second volume was published, 1614 or 1615, under title: The second session of The parliament of vertues reall.
Stationers' Register: Entered to H. Lownes, sen., pts. 1-3, 13 January 1614, and pt. 4, 22 December 1612; to Lownes, jun., pt. 5, 27 November 1612.
"Bethulians rescue" and "Little Bartas", translations by Sylvester of poems by Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas, both have separate divisional title pages, the first dated 1614. "Micro-cosmo-graphia ... from Latin Saphiks of ... Mr. Hen. Smith", a translation by Sylvester of "Vita supplicium", and "Lachrymæ lachrymarum" and "An elegiac-epistle consolatorie", original works by Sylvester, each have separate divisional title pages. Pagination and register are continuous throughout.
Signatures: A⁴ B-E⁸ F⁴ G-O⁸ P² Q-X⁸ Y⁴.
A second volume was published, 1614 or 1615, under title: The second session of The parliament of vertues reall.
Stationers' Register: Entered to H. Lownes, sen., pts. 1-3, 13 January 1614, and pt. 4, 22 December 1612; to Lownes, jun., pt. 5, 27 November 1612.
Description
[8], 308 pages ; 14 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Bound at the front is a leaf with a manuscript dedication by Sylvester to Edward Lewis (see British Literary Manuscripts, vol. I, no. 24; perhaps Sir Edward Lewis of Glamorgan (1560-1628)): "To the worthilie Honored Sr. Edward Lewis, Knight. As like drawes like (by Sympathie), Hard loadstones, Steel; sweet flowers the B[??] to golden Sun, the Marigold: Yo[u]r Names & Vertues (Noble Knight) Suiting my royal Saincts so right, Attract us to you, too-too-bold. Among the Worthies of the land, that have vouchsaft w[i]th heart & hand to wel-come Bartas Muse & Ours; Disdaign not (Sir) w[i]th hand & heart To entertain This slender Parte, from Him, who vowes him. Humbly Yo[u]rs. Josuah Sylvester."
Provenance
Perhaps Sir Edward Lewis of Glamorgan (1560-1628), manuscript dedication (see below); unidentified owner [Samuel ???], signature trimmed (title page); unidentified citation: "[???] II, 1626" and bibliographic inscription: "2 addl leaves in St Lewis the King not in my other cop[y] which collates perfect without them" (front pastedown); Arthur A. Houghton, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Christie's NY, part II, 14 June 1980, lot 506; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1980.
Binding
18th-century English full brown calf, blind-tooled, over paper boards. Unidentified manusript note at end regarding the binding of this volume.
Classification
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