Lere [sic] endeth the book named the dictes or sayngis of the philosophers ...
Contributors: Mubashshir ibn Fātik, Abū al-Wafāʾ, 11th cent.; Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- I-4:19.
Publisher: Printed by William Caxton
Published: 1489
Place of publication: [Westminster
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Genres: Quotations, maxims, etc.
Other titles: Where it is so that euery creature by the suffraunce of our lord god is born and ordeyned to be subgette and thrall vnto the stormes of fortune.; Lere endeth the book named the dictes or sayngis of the philosophers.; Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayngis of the philosophers.; Where it is so that every creature by the suffraunce of our lord god is born and ordeyned to be subgette and thrall unto the stormes of fortune.
Work titles: Dictes and sayings of the philosophers.
Notes: A translation 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.

Title from opening words of colophon, I3r, which reads: Lere [sic] endeth the book named the dictes or sayngis of the philosophers enprynted, by me Wyll[ia]m, Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord. M.cccc.Lxxvij., whiche book is late translated out of, frenshe into englyssh. by þe noble [and] puissant lord Antoine Erle of Ryuyers ..

Actual publication date from STC.

Signatures: pi² A-G H-I⁶.

Text on pi1v begins: Where it is so that euery creature by the suffraunce of our lord god is born and ordeyned to be subgette and thrall vnto the stormes of fortune. ..

With an added colophon on I5r: Caxton me fieri fecit.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

STC (2nd ed.) 6829.

Needham, P. Printer & the pardoner, Cx 93.

Duff 125.

GW 8323.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1938. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; I-4:19).