| Uniform title | Dictes and sayings of the philosophers. |
| Variant title |
Where it is so that euery humayn creature by the suffrance of our lord god is born and ordeigned to be subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune. |
| Variant title |
Where it is so that every humayn creature by the suffrance of our lord god is born and ordeigned to be subgette and thral unto the stormes of fortune. |
| Series |
Early English books online. ^A888680
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| General note | A translation, by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, of a French version by Guillaume de Tignonville of a compilation ultimately based on: Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafā'. Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim. |
| General note | Revised and edited by William Caxton. |
| General note | Title from opening words of colophon, [K]2r, which reads: Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres enprynted, by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.lxxvij. Whiche book is late translated out of Frenshe into englyssh. by the noble and puissant lord Lord Antone Erle of Ryuyers lord of Scales [and] of the Ile of wyght .. |
| General note | Text on [A]1r begins: Where it is so that euery humayn creature by the suffran̄ce of our lord god is born̄ [and] ordeigned to be subgette and thral vnto the stormes of fortune .. |
| General note | For publication date see Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 77-82. |
| General note | Signatures: [A-I K⁶]. |
| General note | The first leaf and the last two leaves are blank. |
| General note | A later state (STC 6827) has an added colophon on p. [K]4v. |
| General note | Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the British Library. |
| References |
STC (2nd ed.) 6826. |
| Citation/References note |
Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 26. |
| Citation/References note |
Duff 123. |
| Citation/References note |
GW 8321. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; I-4:17, 1685:04) |
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