The second session of the parliament of vertues reall : (continued by prorogation) for better propagation of all true piëtie, & utter extirpation of atheisme, & hypocrisie; avarice, & crueltie; pride, & luxurie
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Type of record: Book
Title: The second session of the parliament of vertues reall : (continued by prorogation) for better propagation of all true piëtie, & utter extirpation of atheisme, & hypocrisie; avarice, & crueltie; pride, & luxurie
Classmark: BC Lt d/SYL
Additional creator(s): Charles king of England (1600-1649) (Other); Lownes, Humphrey (1629) (Other); Matthieu, Pierre (1563-1621) (Other); Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste seigneur (1544-1590) (Other); Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618) (Other)
Related people: Charles; Lownes, Humphrey; Matthieu, Pierre; Matthieu, Pierre; Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste; Sylvester, Josuah; Sylvester, Josuah; Sylvester, Josuah
Publisher: Printed by Humphrey Lownes
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1615]
Language: English
Size and medium: [16], 191, [5], 38, [10], 43-66, [4], 29, [19] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/272155
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018156759705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Imprint from STC.
Signatures: A-N 2A(2A3 + 2A[par.]) 2B 2C⁴ 2D(2D2 + 2D3 ) 2E-2H.
With two added dedication leaves: 2A3[par.] and 2D3, a variant lacks these leaves.
Each work has an individual title page; "St. Lewis; the king" begins new pagination and register on 2A1 recto.
Possibly intended as a continuation of Sylvester's "The parliament of vertues royal", published in 1614 (STC 23581) which was also a collection of translations by Sylvester.
Contents: Iob triumphant in his triall. -- Memorials of mortalitie: written tablets, or quatrains... the first centurie / By Piere Mathieu. -- Memorials of mortalitie: written in tablets, or quatrains ... the second centurie. / By Piere Mathieu. -- Henrie the great, (fourth of that name) late King of France & Navarre: His trophies and tragedie / By Piere Matheiu. -- St. Lewis; the King, or, A lamp of grace, lighting the great (in the right vvay) to glorie / translated ... by Iosuah Sylvester. -- A hymn of alms:, or, The beggars bell; heard from beyond the Charter-house ... / By Iosuah Sylvester. -- The batail of Yvry:, or, The break-neck of the hellish-holy league; in that famous victorie vvonne by Henrie the Great / written by DuBartas : translated ... by Iosuah Sylvester. -- Honor's farwell to her honorable frends:, or, The Ladie Hay's last will: copied by a Well-Wisher, in a wakeful dream.
STC (2nd ed.) 23582.
Additional description
Bound with two other publications in volume lettered Sylvester's Poems . Volume contents: The Parliament of vertues royal, [1614]. -- 2. The second session of the Parliament of vertues reall, [1615]. -- 3. Sylvester, J.: Tobacco battered, [1617?]
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