Archontorologion : Or The diall of princes: containing the golden and famovs booke of Marcvs Avrelivs, sometime emperour of Rome
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Type of record: Book
Title: Archontorologion : Or The diall of princes: containing the golden and famovs booke of Marcvs Avrelivs, sometime emperour of Rome
Other titles: Libro llamado Relox de principes; Diall of princes; Favored courtier
Classmark: BC Lt q/GUE
Creator(s): Guevara, Antonio de Bp (1545)
Additional creator(s): North, Sir Thomas (1535?-1601?) (Other)
Related people: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180; North, Thomas
Publisher: Imprinted by B. Alsop
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1619
Language: English
Size and medium: [46],764 [i.e. 762],[2]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274034
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018535639705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
North's translation, although prefessedly from the French, was made to a great extent from the Spanish original. Cf. Dict. nat. biog. The fourth book is a translation of Guevara's Aviso de privados.
Title transliterated: Archontorologion.
Pagination is extremely irregular, especially in the second half of the volume.
The fourth book, with separate part-title (not included in the pagination), has imprint: "London, Imprinted by Bernard Alsop. 1619".
Short-title catalogue no. 12430 (carton 1102).
Additional description
Lower portion of title-leaf torn away, affecting imprint top outer corner and foot of last leaf torn away, affecting paging and text outer margin of pp. 551-2 [i.e. 547-8] partly torn away, slightly affecting hanging note several leaves at beginning and end waterstained. Signature of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal on first blank free endpaper, with classmark below, and Prin2 inside front cover, also [his?] ms pagination of preliminaries and usual Exa. on final page. Other contemporary [?] signatures, including that of Roger Firth, and ms notes, on title-page, mostly deleted also deleted marginal notes on p.[3]. Contemporary ms inscription on p. 352 , blank, refers to James Mount and [R.?] Polewhele the latter name also appears, deleted, on final page, and date 1698 October the 12 in another hand
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