A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune : together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.
1554
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A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune : together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.
Uniform title
De casibus virorum illustrium. English
Edition
And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diuerse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment.
Created/published
[London] : In aedibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio, [[1554 (10 Sept.)]
Description
[9], CCxxiiii [i.e. 225] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; (fol.)
Associated name
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. author.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.
"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.
Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-Y⁶ 2A-2P⁶ 2[par.]⁶.
The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.
"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.
Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-Y⁶ 2A-2P⁶ 2[par.]⁶.
The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.
ESTC staff note
From a French version by Laurent de Premierfaict?
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Fortune (catalog entry 11)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 3177
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 74
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122339
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 74
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122339
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 3177
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HH28/26. Goatskin binding, signed by Riviere, with blocked gilt central ornament. Gathering I from another copy; some leaves mended. Sotheby's, Nov. 3, 1920, Leighton, no. 3018. Provenance: W.J. Leighton - Harmsworth copy