Six excellent treatises of life and death, / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, Sieur du Plessis: and now (first) translated into English.

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Publication InfoImprinted at London : By H. L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes: and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Bishops head, 1607.
Description[540] p.
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Other author/creatorMornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623 editor.
Other author/creatorMunday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.
Other author/creatorLownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller.
Other author/creatorLownes, Humphrey, -1629 printer.
Other author/creatorCyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.
Other author/creatorAmbrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
Other author/creatorCicero, Marcus Tullius.
Other author/creatorSeneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Running title Discourse of life and death
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
Contents Plato his Axiocus; a dialogue entreating of death -- A discourse of Tvllivs Cicero's, concerning death -- Collections out of Seneca's Works, touching life & death -- A sermon of mortality / made by S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage -- A treatise of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, touching the benefit & happinesse of death -- Certain places of Scripture, prayers & meditations, concerning life and death.
General notePrinter's name suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
General noteImprint at colophon reads: At London imprinted by H.L., for Mathew Lownes: and are to bee sold at his shoppe in Pauls church-yarde, at the signe of the Bishop's head. 1607.
General noteThe translator to the reader. Here knowe, that the first discourse, mentioned in the aduertisement ensuing, is none of these sixe ... but another ... formerly translated by the Countesse of Pembroke [i.e. Mornay's A discovrse of life and death]"--A2v.
General noteAxiochus not in fact by Plato. Based on the Latin text of R. Welsdalius's ed., 1568. Both the translation and the speech have been attributed to A. Munday. Cf. ESTC.
General noteStationer's Register: Ent. 15 ja. [1607]. Cf ESTC.
General noteWith a penultimate colophon leaf on Z5r; last leaf is blank except for margin ruling.
General noteTitle within line border; initials; printed marginalia.
General noteSignatures: A-Y¹² Z⁶.
General noteImperfect: stained and tightly bound with some loss of text.
General noteReproduction of original in: Newberry Library.
References STC (2nd ed.), 18155
References ESTC, S94239
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2414:6)
Genre/formBorders (Type evidence) England London 1607.
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