The essayes of a prentise, in the diuine art of poesie..
JamesVI,King of Scotland,1566-1625.
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste,seigneur,1544-1590.Uranie.English & French.1584.
Woieardi, N,former owner.StEdNL: H.29.c.17
Imprinted at Edinbrugh, [sic] : By Thomas Vautroullier.,
1584..
By James VI, whose name (Jacobus Sextus) is given in an acrostic on A1r.
Pages are unnumbered. Signatures: *1-*4, A1-P4.
In verse, mostly in Scots, but including some French and Latin.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regali.
'The Uranie' is a translation of 'L'Uranie, ou muse celeste' by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, with French and English on facing pages.
The twelf sonnets of inuocations to the Goddis -- The Vranie or heauenly muse translated -- The metaphoricall inuentioun of a tragedie, callit Phoenix -- A paraphrasticall translatioun out of the Poëte Lucane -- A treatise of the airt of Scottis poësie -- The CIIII. Psalme of Dauid, translated out of Tremellius -- A poeme of tyme.
ESTC
STC (2nd ed.)
Aldis, H.G.  Scotland,
There is an inscription on the title page "Ex libris N Woieardj[?]" in a contemporary hand.