The courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio : diuided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitatable [sic] for yonge gentilmen and gentilwomen abiding in court, palaice or place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby.

The courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio : diuided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitatable [sic] for yonge gentilmen and gentilwomen abiding in court, palaice or place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby.

Libro del cortegiano. English

Imprinted at London : By wyllyam Seres at the signe of the Hedghogge, 1561.

[394] p. ; (4to)

A translation, by Thomas Hoby, of: Castiglione, Baldassare. Libro del cortegiano.

The final leaf bears a letter of Sir John Cheeke and a colophon.

Signatures: pi 1 A-C⁴ A-2Z⁴ [3A]1.

Entered between 8 March and 14 April [1561]

L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5936[290]): title page only.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4778
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 137
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122029

Brooke, Arthur, -1563. Romeus and Juliet. Fragment.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 4778

Red goatskin binding, fillet borders, signed by David Domont. Some leaves mended. Manuscript poems listed in Union first line index of English verse, some from Tottel's miscellany (1557), most in secretary hand with accompanying 18th c. transcriptions (first 16 lines of Nicholas Grimald's "On Friendship" with first line "of alle the hevenly geftes, that mortall men commend" (before t.p.); unidentified poem with first line "The thinge we ought to covett moste" (before t.p.); Thomas Wyatt's "The louer suspected blameth yll tonges" with first line "Mistrustfull mindes be moued (A1v; first 3 lines also appear on [3A]1v effaced and overwritten); lines from Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, beginning "What life wher [were] like to love" (back endleaf 1r); and unidentified poem in hand of 18th c. transcriber "In answer to the lover's doubt on the opposite leaf" with first line "Do we not our own selves detect" and accompanying note "Written perhaps some Centuries later than 1589" ([3A]1v)). Manuscript motto "Nocet empta dolore voluptas. W. copinger" (before t.p.) and marginal manuscript notes, including one initialed "W.H." Provenance: smudged signature on t.p. J? King

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