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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online THE OXFORD FRANCIS BACON · XV Michael Kiernan (ed.), The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. 15: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall Published in print: 1985 Published online: September 2012 ........................................................................................................................... PG III THE OXFORD FRANCIS BACON · XV GENERAL EDITORS: GRAHAM REES AND LISA JARDINE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD PETER BEAL JONQUIL BEVAN JAMES BINNS MARTA FATTORI QUENTIN SKINNER KEITH THOMAS J.B. TRAPP CHARLES WEBSTER The long and intermittent discussions which led to the establishment of the Oxford Francis Bacon began in 1982. But by the time consideration of the possibility of producing a complete new edition of Bacon's works had reached the point where firm proposals could be put to the publishers, this edition of the 1625 Essayes had already appeared under the Clarendon imprint. When we read Michael Kiernan's edition we were quickly convinced that there was nothing to be gained by producing another and quite different version of the 1625 Essayes under the Page 1 of 4 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-3 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 supervision of another and quite different editor: it is unlikely that another editor could have made a better job of it than Michael had. Accordingly the Board of the Oxford Francis Bacon approached Michael to ask if he would be willing to have his edition embodied in the larger project. Not only did he readily agree but he has now travelled so far with us that he has become one of the main contributors to the project: his edition of The advancement of learning (volume IV) has already been published and he has undertaken to edit the works of volume VIII, the most substantial of which is The historie of the raigne of King Henry the seuenth. The contents then of this, the fifteenth and final volume in the order of the complete edition, was, curiously enough, the first to see the light of day and, indeed, anticipated the formal launching of the enterprise of which it now forms an integral and distinguished part. The General Editors and other members of the editorial team have learned a lot from its example and, in the long dialectic of a large scholarly enterprise, all participants have benefited from Michael's skill and knowledge. Graham Rees and Lisa Jardine, 1999 ........................................................................................................................... pg iv Page 2 of 4 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-3 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 </p> Page 3 of 4 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-3 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 Leaf from BL MS Harleian 5106 (fo. 20), showing Bacon's holograph additions (reduced). © The British Library Board. <p> Page 4 of 4 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-3 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 Oxford Scholarly Editions Online [Untitled] Michael Kiernan (ed.), The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. 15: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall Published in print: 1985 Published online: September 2012 ........................................................................................................................... pg v FOR GWYNNE AND BETTY EVANS ........................................................................................................................... pg vi Page 1 of 1 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-4 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 Oxford Scholarly Editions Online PREFACE Michael Kiernan (ed.), The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. 15: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall Published in print: 1985 Published online: September 2012 ........................................................................................................................... PG VII PREFACE THE present edition attempts to fill the need for a critical, unmodernized edition of Bacon's Essayes. It is based upon (1) an examination and collation of the extant manuscripts and the thirteen editions (1597–1625) published during Bacon's lifetime, and (2) a thorough bibliographical analysis of the treatment of Bacon's text in the Renaissance printing-house. Examination of primary Bacon material at first hand has been made possible by generous research support: a Charles Dexter Traveling Fellowship, a Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowships to the Folger Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library, two grants-in-aid from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a grant from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society, as well as support by the Pennsylvania State University through Faculty Fellowships from the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, a research term from the Department of English, sabbatical leave of six months, and, finally, from the Liberal Arts Research Office, funds for photostats, microfilms, computer time, and travel. Publication of this volume has been aided by a grant from the Hyder Edward Rollins Fund. My research has been facilitated throughout by the unfailing courtesy and co-operation of the librarians and staff of the following collections: the Francis Bacon Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Houghton Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the Pattee Rare Books Library of the Pennsylvania State University; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the North Library and Manuscripts Room of the British Library, Cambridge University Library; the libraries of Trinity College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Durham University Library; Lambeth Palace Library; the Public Record Office; and the Sterling Library of London University. My thanks also to the numerous librarians who answered queries by post. ........................................................................................................................... pg viii Page 1 of 3 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-5 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 I am indebted to the following individuals and libraries for permission to collate their manuscripts and printed editions: the Chapin Library, Williams College; the William Andrews Clark Library; the Folger Shakespeare Library; the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc.; Harvard College Library; the Henry E. Huntington Library; the Lehigh University Library; the Newberry Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library; Yale University Library; the Bodleian Library and the Queen's College, Oxford; the British Library; Cambridge University Library; Christ's College, Emmanuel College, King's College, St. John's College, Cambridge, the Masters and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; F. H. M. FitzRoy Newdegate, Esq.; His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library; Nottingham University Library; the Public Record Office; the Somerset Record Office; the Sterling Library of London University; and Westminster Abbey Library. I am also indebted to the following for their interest and encouragement; David and Patricia Herlihy and Mather House, Harvard; Allan Holaday; John MacGregor; Charles W. Mann; Katharine F. Pantzer; A. J. Sambrook; John Hazel Smith; Kaela, Ollie, and Funf; and especially, my parents, Dorothy and Terence Kiernan. Herschel C. Baker, William H. Bond, and Gwynne Blakemore Evans, mentors and patient friends, have nourished and improved the edition over many years as have, more recently, three Huntington Fellows, G. E. Bentley, Paul Christianson, and Edmund S. Morgan, who kindly read sections of the 'Commentary'. My thanks also to Maud E. Wilcox of Harvard University Press, whose transatlantic child this is, and to the staff of Oxford University Press, particularly John Waś. My greatest debt is to Nancy Ellen, for her loving and unstinting encouragement and for her intelligent and substantive contributions. The dedication leaf (from both of us) inadequately acknowledges many years of scholarly witness and support. Finally, for the faults and limitations of this work I must place myself with Bacon, 'most humbly craving pardon for ........................................................................................................................... pg ix any errors committed in this writing which the same weakness of judgement which suffered me to commit them would not suffer me to discover'. M.K. University Park, Pennsylvania ........................................................................................................................... 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Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 Oxford Scholarly Editions Online REFERENCES, ABBREVIATIONS, AND SYMBOLS Michael Kiernan (ed.), The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. 15: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall Published in print: 1985 Published online: September 2012 ........................................................................................................................... PG XIII REFERENCES, ABBREVIATIONS, AND SYMBOLS THE following abbreviations are used for titles of Bacon's works frequently cited in the Commentary: AL Advancement of Learning Ant. R. Antitheta Rerum in De Augmentis Apoph. Apophthegms New and Old De Aug. De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum Henry 7 History of the Reign of King Henry VII Nov. Org. Novum Organum Promus Promus of Formularies Sylva Sylva Sylvarum; or a Natural History Unless otherwise noted, all quotations from Bacon's writings are taken from The Works of Francis Bacon, edd. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, fourteen vols. (London, 1857–74), and are cited by volume and page (iii. 167; xiv. 206–45). Latin works are quoted in Spedding's translations with citation of Latin text given in a following parenthesis: De Aug. v. 40 (i. 754), Wisdom, vi. 714 (741). Reference to individual essays in the present edition is by essay number (in small capitals) and line number (XLI. 23–56). Biblical quotations are from the Authorized Version, checked against the Vulgate, Bishops' Geneva, Douai, and Rheims versions, which are quoted as relevant. The abbreviations used for extant manuscripts and editions will be found in the List of Sigla on pp. xvii–xviii. The following abbreviations are used for earlier editions of Bacon's essays: Page 1 of 6 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-7 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018 Abbot Bacon's Essays, ed. Edwin A. Abbott, two vols. (1899) Harmony A Harmony of the Essays, ed. Edward Arber (Westminster, 1895) Markby The Essays or Counsels, Civlll and Morall, ed. Thomas Markby (London, 1853) Reynolds The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, ed. Samuel Harvey Reynolds (Oxford, 1890) Scott The Essays of Francis Bacon, ed. Mary Augusta Scott (New York, 1908) Singer The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral with the Wisdom of Ancients, ed. S. W. Singer (London, 1856) Wright Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, ed. W. Aldis Wright, 3rd edn. (London and Cambridge, 1865) ........................................................................................................................... pg xiv Other references: Akrigg G. P. V. Akrigg, Jacobean Pageant or the Court of King James I (Cambridge, Mass., 1963) Arber Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Register of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640, five vols. (London, 1875–94) Aubrey John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Oliver Dick (London, 1949) Beal Peter Beal (comp.), Index of English Literary Manuscripts, i. 1450–1625 (London and New York, 1980) Briquet C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, ed. A. H. Stevenson, four vols. (Amsterdam, 1968) Page 2 of 6 http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198186731.book.1/actrade-9780198186731-miscMatter-7 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out single copies of portions of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Subscriber: University of Edinburgh; date: 22 April 2018
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