Accession number:
PML 37203
Published:
Londini : In officina Ioannis Haviland, [1624]
Credit:
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Description:
[20], 493, [3] p. ; 30 cm
Notes:
A translation into Latin, and enlargement, by William Rawley, of Bacon's "The advancement of learning". This expanded edition became known as "De augmentis scientiarum", which was Intended as Part 1 of Bacon's proposed, but never completed "Instauratio magna".
Added t.p. with date 1623 unchanged.
Catchword on [par.]2 recto: "emittit"; a variant setting has "Translatio".
Date on t.p. altered by hand stamp to 1624.
Errata: p. [1] at end.
Errors in pagination: 43 for 35, 46 for 38, 131 for 129.
Final leaf is blank.
Signatures [para.]⁴ A⁶ B-Z⁴ 2A-3R⁴.
Wide margins, on thin paper.
With initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Binding:
Red velvet, embroidered, with embroidered panels of depicting an enthroned pope on both covers added later (see letter laid into volume from Sister Olive Frances Rhinelander to Redmond, 26 Jan. 1938). English manuscript waste in gutter by 2nd front endleaf. A binding with identical embroidery, likely owned by James VI, is in the British Library, C.48.k.10.
Variant Title:
Opera Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio, Vice-comitis Sancti Albani
Provenance:
Roland L. Redmond.
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