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

People / Organizations

• Philippe de Mornay (Author)

Imprint

Imprinted at London: by H. L. for Mathew Lownes: and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Bishops head, 1607.

Added name

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

Publication year

1607

ESTC No.

S94239

Grub Street ID

152552

Description

[540] p. ; 12⁰

Note

Contains selections from Plato (Axiochus), Cicero, Seneca, St. Ambrose, St. Cyprian, and the Bible. Translator's note on A2v mentions, and extant copies are bd. w., 18140 sqq.

With a penultimate colophon leaf on Z5r; last leaf is blank except for margin ruling.

French original not traced.

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--STC.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures from DFo