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L'escole du sage, ou le caractere des vertus & des vices

Archive Print Item: Anglo-French 2 1666/HAL

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Type of record: Book

Title: L'escole du sage, ou le caractere des vertus & des vices

Other titles: Characters of vertues and vices

Level: Item

Classmark: Anglo-French 2 1666/HAL

Additional creator(s): Chevreau, Urbain (1613-1701) (Other); Hall, Joseph (1574-1656) (Other); Meurs, Johannes van (1579-1639) (Other)

Related people: Chevreau, Urbain; Hall, Joseph; Meurs, Johannes van

Publisher: chez François Comba

Publication city: A Lyon

Date(s): 1666

Language: French

Size and medium: [10],299,108 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/258405

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016491039705181

Description

Pagination irregular. The dedication is different to that to the 1646 Paris edition.


"Livre I" is a translation of Hall's "Characters of vertues and vices"; "Livre II" is an imitation of Johannes van Meurs' "De gloria"; the "Seconde partie" is a translation of Hall's "Heaven upon earth" and has seperate title-page and signatures.


In part translated and imitated from works by Joseph Hall and Johannes van Meurs, by Urbain Chevreau.

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