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Record Nr.

UNISA996395843803316

Autore

Jean, de Meun, <d. 1305?>

Titolo

The dodechedron of fortune; or, The exercise of a quick wit [[electronic resource] ] : A booke so rarely and strangely composed, that it giueth (after a most admirable manner) a pleasant and ingenious answer to euery demaund; the like whereof hath not heretofore beene published in our English tongue. Being first composed in French by Iohn de Meum, one of the most worthie and famous poets of his time; and dedicated to the French King, Charles the fift, and by him, for the worth and raritie thereof, verie much countenanced, vsed, and priuiledged: and now, for the content of our countrey-men, Englished by Sr. W.B. Knight. The vse of the booke the preface annexed declareth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Iohn Pindley, for H. H[ooper] and S. M[an] and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Ball, 1613

Descrizione fisica

[26], 144 p

Altri autori (Persone)

BW., Sir.

Soggetti

Fortune-telling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In verse.

A translation of: Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune.

Another state (STC 17847.2) lacks Hooper's initials in the imprint.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113