| Other author/creator | Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623 editor. |
| Other author/creator | Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name. |
| Other author/creator | Lownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Lownes, Humphrey, -1629 printer. |
| Other author/creator | Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. |
| Other author/creator | Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. |
| Other author/creator | Cicero, Marcus Tullius. |
| Other author/creator | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. |
| Running title |
Discourse of life and death |
| Series | Early 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 note | Printer's name suggested by STC (2nd ed.). |
| General note | Imprint 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 note | The 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 note | Axiochus 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 note | Stationer's Register: Ent. 15 ja. [1607]. Cf ESTC. |
| General note | With a penultimate colophon leaf on Z5r; last leaf is blank except for margin ruling. |
| General note | Title within line border; initials; printed marginalia. |
| General note | Signatures: A-Y¹² Z⁶. |
| General note | Imperfect: stained and tightly bound with some loss of text. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library. |
| References |
STC (2nd ed.), 18155 |
| References |
ESTC, S94239 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 2414:6) |
| Genre/form | Borders (Type evidence) England London 1607. |
| Stock number | CL0036000090 ProQuest, 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |