Six excellent treatises of life and death

Folger bibliographic ID: 331649
STC: 18155
Folger call number: FILM Acc. 626
Folger holdings ID: 481418
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Folger holdings ID: 481417

General notes

Signatures: A-Y¹², Z⁶ (Z6 blank except for rules) "Axiocvs. A dialogue written by Plato ... " (A5r-D10r) is spurious "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 Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library With: A discovrse of life and death / written in French by Phil. Mornay ; done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke. At London : Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes ..., 1606 Available electronically as part of Early English books online Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1965. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1029:2b)

Contents

Plato his Axiocus -- 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

Extended title: Six excellent treatises of life and death collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English
Alternate titles: Discourse of life and death

Death Life

associated with: Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623
associated with: Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
associated with: Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
associated with: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
associated with: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D