Nosce teipsum : This oracle expounded in two elegies : 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astraea in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poem of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished
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Type of record: Book
Title: Nosce teipsum : This oracle expounded in two elegies : 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astraea in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poem of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished
Other titles: Orchestra; Hymnes of Astrea
Classmark: BC Lt d DAV
Creator(s): Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)
Related people: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Publisher: Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery Lane, neere Serieants Inne
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1622
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 unnumbered pages, 81 pages, 78 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269032
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017730159705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Signatures: B-M8 L⁴.
Last leaf is blank.
The general title page has "ORCHESTRA"; a variant has "Orchestra"; with errata on recto of L3; a variant lacks errata.
"Hymnes of Astrea" (beginning leaf F5) and "Orchestra" (beginning leaf H2) have separate title pages with imprint "London, printed by A.M. for Richard Hawkins, 1622", the former reading "Hymnes of Astrea [sic]". Both are unpaginated and anonymous but register is continuous.
The acrostic of each of the "Hymnes of Astrea" spells out "Elizabetha regina".
The verse dedication to Queen Elizabeth is signed John Davies.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 6359.
Additional description
Wanting blank first and last leaves. Some marginal printed notes and names cut into some headlines shaved several leaves have much repaired margins. Stabbed. Contemporary MS inscription on blank verso of title page of Hymnes signed W.B. also on final blank, Latin note of purchase on 16 Dec. 1646 by William Brasse also London, and note of his baptism 26 Oct. 1620 and list of numbers at head of page, cut into by binder. Pencil note of purchase at Maidment sale, Edinburgh, April 29, 1880 and signature A.K. Donald [?]. Cut-out armorial motif (Maidment) on verso of first free endpaper. Armorial bookplate of C. H. Wilkinson pasted inside front cover
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