Epigrams
translated
from the Latin of Owen.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
By the Revd.
Mr John Jacob.
Dublin, 1734.
(For this
English abridgment of Argenis, not mentioned in the bibliographies of
Barclay, see Bensly, E. , Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. iv, 392-5. )
The Phoenix; or, the History of Polyarchus and Argenis, translated from
the Latin, By a Lady. 4 vols. London and York, 1772. (By Clara
Reeve. )
(For translations of Argenis in other languages, and continuations, see
Schmid, K. F. For dramatisations, see Collignon. For translations of
Euphormio and Icon Animorum, see Dukas. )
iv. Criticism, etc.
Becker, Ph. Aug. Johann Barclay, 1582–1621. Zeitschrift für vergleichende
Litteraturgeschichte, Neue Folge, Band xv, 33-118. Berlin, 1903.
Boucher, Léon. De Joannis Barclaii Argenide. Paris, 1874.
Censura Euphormionis auctore Anonymo. Paris, 1620. (Pierre Musnier's
Censura Censurae Euphormionis in same vol. )
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Literary Remains. Vol. 1, 255,258. 1836.
Collignon, Albert. Le Portrait des Esprits (Icon animorum) de Jean
Barclay. Nancy, 1906. (Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de
Stanislas, 1905-6. ) (On pp. 68, 69 is a list of Ouvrages relatifs à l'Icon
animorum. )
Note complémentaire sur l'Argenis. Appendix to C. 's Le Portrait des
Esprits de J. B.
Notes Historiques, Littéraires et Bibliographiques sur l'Argenis de
Jean Barclay. (Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de Stanislas,
1901–2. ) Paris and Nancy, 1902.
Notes sur l’Euphormion de Jean Barclay. (Extrait des Annales de l'Est. )
Nancy, 1901.
Dukas, Jules. Étude Bibliographique et Littéraire sur le Satyricon de Jean
Barclay. Paris, 1880.
Dupond, Albert. L'Argénis de Barclai. Étude Littéraire. Paris, 1875.
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Fournel, Victor. La Littérature independante et les écrivains oubliés, essais
de critique et d'érudition sur le XVII° siècle, pp. 212-4. Paris, 1862.
Körting, Heinrich. Geschichte des französichen Romans im xvi. Jahrhundert.
2 vols. Leipzig and Oppeln, 1885–7.
Schmid, Karl Friedrich. John Barclays Argenis. Eine literarhistorische
Untersuchung. 1. Ausgaben der Argenis, ihrer Fortsetzungen und
Übersetzungen. Berlin and Leipzig, 1904. (Heft xxxi of Josef Schick
and M. v. Waldberg's Literarhistorische Forschungen. )
(For 17th and 18th cent. works on Argenis see Schmid, pp. 167–174. )
III. OWEN.
i. Biography.
Archaeologia Cambrensis. New Series, vol. iv, 130. 1853.
Colvile, F. L. Worthies of Warwickshire. Warwick and London, 1870.
Dwnn, Lewys. Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches.
Ed. by Meyrick, Sir S. R. Vol. 11, 180. Llandovery, 1846.
Hughes of Kinmel, H. R. The Two Hugh Owens. Y Cymmrodor, vol. xvi.
1903.
Leach, A. F. History of Warwick School, pp. 124-134. (See Bensly, E. , John
Owen the Epigrammatist, N. & Q. Ser. x, vol. xi, 21. )
Williams, W. Ll. The Two Hugh Owens. Appendix H to Welsh Catholics
on the Continent. Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, Session 1901-2,
pp. 128-144.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 11, cols. 320-2.
ii. Works.
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Libri Tres. Ad Illus-
trissimam D. Mariam Neuille, Comitis Dorcestriae filiam Patronam suam.
Editio Tertia, prioribus emendatior. 1607. (The first two eds. bad
appeared in 1606. )
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Ad Excellentissimam &
doctissimam Heroïnam, D. Arbellam Stuart, Liber Singularis. Editio
Prima. 1607. (Uniform with the above. ) (Fourth ed. of Owen's first
volume was published in 1612. Lond. ex off. Joh. Legati, sumtibus
Simonis Waterson, and also the two following. )
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Oxoniensis, Cambro-Britanni, Libri Tres.
Ad Henricvm Principem Cambriae Dvo. Ad Carolvm Eboracensem
unvs. Editio prima. 1612.
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Oxoniensis. Ad Tres Me-
caenates, Libri Tres. Ad Edoardum Noel equitem & Baronetum, vnus.
Ad Guilielmum Sidley equitem & Baronetum, alter. Ad Rogerum
Owen equitem auratum, Tertius. Editio Prima. 1612. (Uniform with the
above. )
Additional epigrams are printed in the Leyden ed. of 1628 and in Ioannis
Oweni libellus epigrammatum, etc. , ed. by Ebert, F. A. , Leipzig, 1824.
ii. Translations.
English.
Vicars, John. Epigrams Of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist
Mr John Owen, Gentleman. Translated by John Vicars. 1619.
Hayman, Robert. Qvodlibets, Lately Come Over From New Britaniola, Old
Newfound-land. Epigrams and other small parcels, both Morall and Divine.
The first foure Bookes being the Authors owne: the rest translated out
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of that Excellent Epigrammatist, Mr John Owen, and other rare Authors:
With two Epistles of that excellently wittie Doctor, Francis Rablais:
Translated out of his French at large. All of them Composed and done
at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. By
R. H. Sometimes Governour of the Plantation there. 1628.
Pecke, Thomas. Parnasi Puerperium: or, Some Wellwishes to Ingenuity,
in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de
Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in
Sir Tho. More. To which is annext A Century of Heroick Epigrams,
(Sixty whereof concern the Twelve Caesars; and the Forty remaining,
several deserving Persons. ) By the Author of that celebrated Elegie upon
Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent. 1659.
Harvey, Thomas. John Owen's Latin Epigrams, Englished by Tho. Harvey,
Gent. 1677.
Cowper, William.
Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Life and
Works, ed. Grimshawe, T. S. Vol. VIII, 368-9.
Translations of isolated epigrams of Owen occur in various collections.
Harflete, Henry. A Banquet of Essayes, Fetcht out of Famous Owens
Confectionary, Disht out, and serv'd up at the Table of Mecoenas. By
Henry Harflete, sometime of Grayes-Inne, Gent. 1653. (Essays on
Ep. 1, 2, with a trans. of that Epigram. )
German.
(For early German translators and very numerous imitators of Owen, see
Erich Urban's treatise. For translations in other languages, see Brit. Mus.
Cat. )
iv. Criticisms and Literary History.
Gervinus, Georg Gottfried. Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung. Vol. 111
(ed. 5), ix, 4. Epigramme und Satiren, pp. 396–423. Leipzig, 1872.
Lafenestre, Pierre. François Maynard. Révue d'Histoire littéraire de la
France, pp. 457-477, 1903.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Zerstreute Anmerkungen über das Epigramm,
und einige der vornehmsten Epigrammatisten, pp. 214 sqq. in vol. XI,
3rd ed. (Stuttgart, 1895) of Karl Lachmann's ed, of Lessing's Sämtliche
Schriften.
Urban, Erich. Owenus und die deutschen Epigrammatiker des xvii Jahr-
hunderts. Berlin, 1900. (Heft xı in Literarhistorische Forschungen ed.
by Josef Schick and M. v. Waldberg. )
V. Mention and imitation of Owen in Latin epigrammatists.
(A selection. )
Barth, Caspar. Amphitheatrum seriorum Jocorum. Hanau, 1613. (Several
references. )
Bauhuis, Bernard. Epigrammatum Libri v, ed. altera. Antwerp, 1620.
(1st ed. 1615. ) (Slight touches of imitation. )
Bruch, Richard. Epigrammatum Hecatontades duae authore R. B. 1627.
(Imitations of Owen. )
Cabilliau, Baldwin. Epigrammata Selecta. Antwerp, 1620. (Slight touches. )
Dunbar, John. Epigrammaton Ioannis Dynbari Megalo-Britanni Centvriae
Sex, Decades totidem. 1616. (Imitations of Owen. )
Harder, H. Epigrammata, in Deliciae Poetarum Danorum ed. Rostgaard, F.
Leyden, 1693. Tom. II. (Much imitation of Owen. )
Paterson, Ninian. Epigrammatum Libri Octo. Edinburgh, 1678. (Imitation
of Owen. )
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504
Bibliography
Stradling, John. Epigrammatum Libri Quatuor. 1607. (Owen addressed
in lib. iv, 91. )
Owen's epigrams are freely quoted in such books as Caroli A. S. Antonio
Patavino, Anconitani, de Arte Epigrammatica Libellus, Cologne, 1650, and
Nic. Mercer's De Conscribendo Epigrammate, Paris, 1653.
(For the writings of Thomas Newton (1542 ? -1607), see D. of N. B. A. R. W. ]
CHAPTER XIV
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHYI.
FRANCIS BACON.
Philosophical Works (Spedding's arrangement).
i. Parts of the Instauratio Magna.
Instauratio magna. 1620. (After two pages beginning ‘Franciscus de Veru-
lamio sic cogitavit,' an epistle dedicatory to the king, preface, distributio
operis and a page announcing deest pars prima instaurationis, quae
complectitur partitiones scientiarum,' there follows a second title-page:
Pars Secunda Operis, quae dicitur Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera
de interpretatione naturae. The same volume also contains: Parasceve
ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem. )
Opera. Tomus primus. Qui continet De Augmentis Scientiarum libros IX.
1623. (The second title is : de Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
libri ix. )
Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam: sive
Phaenomena Universi : quae est Instaurationis Magnae pars tertia. 1622.
(This volume contains Historia Ventorum, also titles and 'aditus’ to
five other Historiae, namely, Densi et Rari, Gravis et Levis, Sympathiae
et Antipathiae Rerum, Sulphuris Mercurii et Salis, Vitae et Mortis. )
Historia Vitae et Mortis. Sive Titulus Secundus in Historia Naturali et
Experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: quae est Instaurationis
Magnae pars tertia. 1623.
Historia Densi et Rari (1658)? .
Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History. In ten centuries. Written by the
Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St Alban. Published
after the author's death by William Rawley. 1627.
Scala intellectus, sive Filum Labyrinthi (1653) (a preface intended for the
fourth part of the Instauratio).
Prodromi, sive Anticipationes Philosophiae Secundae (1653) (a preface in-
tended for the fifth part of the Instauratio).
ii. Works connected with the Instauratio, but not intended to be included
in it.
Cogitationes de natura rerum (1653).
De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris (1653).
De Principiis atque Originibus secundum Fabulas Cupidinis et Coeli (1653).
New Atlantis: a work unfinished. (First published by Rawley at the end of
the volume containing Sylva Sylvarum in 1627. )
1 For scholastic works, see bibliography to chap. x, vol. I, of the present work.
? Writings published for the first time in posthumous collections have the date of
the collection given in parentheses. Titles will be found under · Editions. '
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iii. Works originally designed for parts of the Instauratio but superseded
or abandoned.
Cogitationes de Scientia Humana. (A series of fragments of uncertain
date, first published by Spedding (Bacon's Works, vol. 111), who supplied
the title. )
Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature; with the annotations of
Hermes Stella (1734).
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon of the Proficience and Advancement of
Learning Divine and Humane. 1605.
Filum Labyrinthi, sive Formula Inquisitionis (1734) (little else than an English
version of the Cogitata et Visa).
De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium (1653).
Temporis Partus Masculus sive Instauratio Magna Imperii Humani in Uni-
versum (1653).
Partis Instaurationis Secundae Delineatio et Argumentum, et Redargutio
philosophiarum (1653, in part).
Cogitata et Visa: de Interpretatione Naturae, sive de Scientia Operativa
(1653).
Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Moto (1653).
Sequela Cartarum; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Calore et Frigore (1734).
Historia et Inquisitio Prima de Sono et Auditu, et de Forma Soni et Latente
Processu Soni; sive Sylva Soni et Auditus (1658).
Phaenomena Universi; sive Historia Naturalis ad Condendam Philosophiam
(1653).
Descriptio Globi Intellectualis et Thema Coeli (1653).
De Interpretatione Naturae Sententiae XII (1653).
Aphorismi et Consilia (1653).
Literary Works.
Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene
and allowed. 1597. (There are ten essays in this volume. The Religious
Meditations are in Latin and are entitled Meditationes Sacrae; the Places
of perswasion and disswasion are in English and are entitled Coulers of
Good and Evill; a fragment. Reprinted in 1598, 1604 and 1606. )
The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon Knight the kings solliciter generall. 1612.
(This volume contains essays only-thirty-eight in number, twenty-nine
of them new, and the rest corrected and enlarged. )
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount
St Alban. 1625. (This volume contains fifty-eight essays, twenty of them
being new and most of the rest altered and enlarged. )
De Sapientia Veterum Liber, ad inclytam academiam Cantabrigiensem.
1609.
The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh. 1622.
Advertisement touching an Holy Warre. Written in the year 1622. 1629.
Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain (1734).
Apothegmes new and old. 1625.
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (begun 1594, published 1882, and in
part by Spedding, vol. vıı).
Translation of Certaine Psalmes into English Verse. 1625.
Professional Works.
Maxims of the Law (written about 1597; first printed 1630).
Reading on the Statute of Uses (read at Gray's Inn in the Lent vacation,
1600; first printed in 1642).
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506
Bibliography
The Arguments of Law of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, The King's Solicitor.
General, in certain great and difficult cases. (Revised by Bacon in 1616,
but not published by him; first printed by Blackbourne in 1730.
English abridgment of Argenis, not mentioned in the bibliographies of
Barclay, see Bensly, E. , Mod. Lang. Rev. vol. iv, 392-5. )
The Phoenix; or, the History of Polyarchus and Argenis, translated from
the Latin, By a Lady. 4 vols. London and York, 1772. (By Clara
Reeve. )
(For translations of Argenis in other languages, and continuations, see
Schmid, K. F. For dramatisations, see Collignon. For translations of
Euphormio and Icon Animorum, see Dukas. )
iv. Criticism, etc.
Becker, Ph. Aug. Johann Barclay, 1582–1621. Zeitschrift für vergleichende
Litteraturgeschichte, Neue Folge, Band xv, 33-118. Berlin, 1903.
Boucher, Léon. De Joannis Barclaii Argenide. Paris, 1874.
Censura Euphormionis auctore Anonymo. Paris, 1620. (Pierre Musnier's
Censura Censurae Euphormionis in same vol. )
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Literary Remains. Vol. 1, 255,258. 1836.
Collignon, Albert. Le Portrait des Esprits (Icon animorum) de Jean
Barclay. Nancy, 1906. (Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de
Stanislas, 1905-6. ) (On pp. 68, 69 is a list of Ouvrages relatifs à l'Icon
animorum. )
Note complémentaire sur l'Argenis. Appendix to C. 's Le Portrait des
Esprits de J. B.
Notes Historiques, Littéraires et Bibliographiques sur l'Argenis de
Jean Barclay. (Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de Stanislas,
1901–2. ) Paris and Nancy, 1902.
Notes sur l’Euphormion de Jean Barclay. (Extrait des Annales de l'Est. )
Nancy, 1901.
Dukas, Jules. Étude Bibliographique et Littéraire sur le Satyricon de Jean
Barclay. Paris, 1880.
Dupond, Albert. L'Argénis de Barclai. Étude Littéraire. Paris, 1875.
## p. 502 (#524) ############################################
502
Bibliography
Fournel, Victor. La Littérature independante et les écrivains oubliés, essais
de critique et d'érudition sur le XVII° siècle, pp. 212-4. Paris, 1862.
Körting, Heinrich. Geschichte des französichen Romans im xvi. Jahrhundert.
2 vols. Leipzig and Oppeln, 1885–7.
Schmid, Karl Friedrich. John Barclays Argenis. Eine literarhistorische
Untersuchung. 1. Ausgaben der Argenis, ihrer Fortsetzungen und
Übersetzungen. Berlin and Leipzig, 1904. (Heft xxxi of Josef Schick
and M. v. Waldberg's Literarhistorische Forschungen. )
(For 17th and 18th cent. works on Argenis see Schmid, pp. 167–174. )
III. OWEN.
i. Biography.
Archaeologia Cambrensis. New Series, vol. iv, 130. 1853.
Colvile, F. L. Worthies of Warwickshire. Warwick and London, 1870.
Dwnn, Lewys. Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches.
Ed. by Meyrick, Sir S. R. Vol. 11, 180. Llandovery, 1846.
Hughes of Kinmel, H. R. The Two Hugh Owens. Y Cymmrodor, vol. xvi.
1903.
Leach, A. F. History of Warwick School, pp. 124-134. (See Bensly, E. , John
Owen the Epigrammatist, N. & Q. Ser. x, vol. xi, 21. )
Williams, W. Ll. The Two Hugh Owens. Appendix H to Welsh Catholics
on the Continent. Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, Session 1901-2,
pp. 128-144.
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. Ed. Bliss, P. Vol. 11, cols. 320-2.
ii. Works.
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Libri Tres. Ad Illus-
trissimam D. Mariam Neuille, Comitis Dorcestriae filiam Patronam suam.
Editio Tertia, prioribus emendatior. 1607. (The first two eds. bad
appeared in 1606. )
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Ad Excellentissimam &
doctissimam Heroïnam, D. Arbellam Stuart, Liber Singularis. Editio
Prima. 1607. (Uniform with the above. ) (Fourth ed. of Owen's first
volume was published in 1612. Lond. ex off. Joh. Legati, sumtibus
Simonis Waterson, and also the two following. )
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Oxoniensis, Cambro-Britanni, Libri Tres.
Ad Henricvm Principem Cambriae Dvo. Ad Carolvm Eboracensem
unvs. Editio prima. 1612.
Epigrammatum Ioannis Owen Cambro-Britanni Oxoniensis. Ad Tres Me-
caenates, Libri Tres. Ad Edoardum Noel equitem & Baronetum, vnus.
Ad Guilielmum Sidley equitem & Baronetum, alter. Ad Rogerum
Owen equitem auratum, Tertius. Editio Prima. 1612. (Uniform with the
above. )
Additional epigrams are printed in the Leyden ed. of 1628 and in Ioannis
Oweni libellus epigrammatum, etc. , ed. by Ebert, F. A. , Leipzig, 1824.
ii. Translations.
English.
Vicars, John. Epigrams Of That most wittie and worthie Epigrammatist
Mr John Owen, Gentleman. Translated by John Vicars. 1619.
Hayman, Robert. Qvodlibets, Lately Come Over From New Britaniola, Old
Newfound-land. Epigrams and other small parcels, both Morall and Divine.
The first foure Bookes being the Authors owne: the rest translated out
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of that Excellent Epigrammatist, Mr John Owen, and other rare Authors:
With two Epistles of that excellently wittie Doctor, Francis Rablais:
Translated out of his French at large. All of them Composed and done
at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. By
R. H. Sometimes Governour of the Plantation there. 1628.
Pecke, Thomas. Parnasi Puerperium: or, Some Wellwishes to Ingenuity,
in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de
Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in
Sir Tho. More. To which is annext A Century of Heroick Epigrams,
(Sixty whereof concern the Twelve Caesars; and the Forty remaining,
several deserving Persons. ) By the Author of that celebrated Elegie upon
Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent. 1659.
Harvey, Thomas. John Owen's Latin Epigrams, Englished by Tho. Harvey,
Gent. 1677.
Cowper, William.
Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Life and
Works, ed. Grimshawe, T. S. Vol. VIII, 368-9.
Translations of isolated epigrams of Owen occur in various collections.
Harflete, Henry. A Banquet of Essayes, Fetcht out of Famous Owens
Confectionary, Disht out, and serv'd up at the Table of Mecoenas. By
Henry Harflete, sometime of Grayes-Inne, Gent. 1653. (Essays on
Ep. 1, 2, with a trans. of that Epigram. )
German.
(For early German translators and very numerous imitators of Owen, see
Erich Urban's treatise. For translations in other languages, see Brit. Mus.
Cat. )
iv. Criticisms and Literary History.
Gervinus, Georg Gottfried. Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung. Vol. 111
(ed. 5), ix, 4. Epigramme und Satiren, pp. 396–423. Leipzig, 1872.
Lafenestre, Pierre. François Maynard. Révue d'Histoire littéraire de la
France, pp. 457-477, 1903.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Zerstreute Anmerkungen über das Epigramm,
und einige der vornehmsten Epigrammatisten, pp. 214 sqq. in vol. XI,
3rd ed. (Stuttgart, 1895) of Karl Lachmann's ed, of Lessing's Sämtliche
Schriften.
Urban, Erich. Owenus und die deutschen Epigrammatiker des xvii Jahr-
hunderts. Berlin, 1900. (Heft xı in Literarhistorische Forschungen ed.
by Josef Schick and M. v. Waldberg. )
V. Mention and imitation of Owen in Latin epigrammatists.
(A selection. )
Barth, Caspar. Amphitheatrum seriorum Jocorum. Hanau, 1613. (Several
references. )
Bauhuis, Bernard. Epigrammatum Libri v, ed. altera. Antwerp, 1620.
(1st ed. 1615. ) (Slight touches of imitation. )
Bruch, Richard. Epigrammatum Hecatontades duae authore R. B. 1627.
(Imitations of Owen. )
Cabilliau, Baldwin. Epigrammata Selecta. Antwerp, 1620. (Slight touches. )
Dunbar, John. Epigrammaton Ioannis Dynbari Megalo-Britanni Centvriae
Sex, Decades totidem. 1616. (Imitations of Owen. )
Harder, H. Epigrammata, in Deliciae Poetarum Danorum ed. Rostgaard, F.
Leyden, 1693. Tom. II. (Much imitation of Owen. )
Paterson, Ninian. Epigrammatum Libri Octo. Edinburgh, 1678. (Imitation
of Owen. )
## p. 504 (#526) ############################################
504
Bibliography
Stradling, John. Epigrammatum Libri Quatuor. 1607. (Owen addressed
in lib. iv, 91. )
Owen's epigrams are freely quoted in such books as Caroli A. S. Antonio
Patavino, Anconitani, de Arte Epigrammatica Libellus, Cologne, 1650, and
Nic. Mercer's De Conscribendo Epigrammate, Paris, 1653.
(For the writings of Thomas Newton (1542 ? -1607), see D. of N. B. A. R. W. ]
CHAPTER XIV
THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH PHILOSOPHYI.
FRANCIS BACON.
Philosophical Works (Spedding's arrangement).
i. Parts of the Instauratio Magna.
Instauratio magna. 1620. (After two pages beginning ‘Franciscus de Veru-
lamio sic cogitavit,' an epistle dedicatory to the king, preface, distributio
operis and a page announcing deest pars prima instaurationis, quae
complectitur partitiones scientiarum,' there follows a second title-page:
Pars Secunda Operis, quae dicitur Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera
de interpretatione naturae. The same volume also contains: Parasceve
ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem. )
Opera. Tomus primus. Qui continet De Augmentis Scientiarum libros IX.
1623. (The second title is : de Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
libri ix. )
Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam: sive
Phaenomena Universi : quae est Instaurationis Magnae pars tertia. 1622.
(This volume contains Historia Ventorum, also titles and 'aditus’ to
five other Historiae, namely, Densi et Rari, Gravis et Levis, Sympathiae
et Antipathiae Rerum, Sulphuris Mercurii et Salis, Vitae et Mortis. )
Historia Vitae et Mortis. Sive Titulus Secundus in Historia Naturali et
Experimentali ad condendam philosophiam: quae est Instaurationis
Magnae pars tertia. 1623.
Historia Densi et Rari (1658)? .
Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History. In ten centuries. Written by the
Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St Alban. Published
after the author's death by William Rawley. 1627.
Scala intellectus, sive Filum Labyrinthi (1653) (a preface intended for the
fourth part of the Instauratio).
Prodromi, sive Anticipationes Philosophiae Secundae (1653) (a preface in-
tended for the fifth part of the Instauratio).
ii. Works connected with the Instauratio, but not intended to be included
in it.
Cogitationes de natura rerum (1653).
De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris (1653).
De Principiis atque Originibus secundum Fabulas Cupidinis et Coeli (1653).
New Atlantis: a work unfinished. (First published by Rawley at the end of
the volume containing Sylva Sylvarum in 1627. )
1 For scholastic works, see bibliography to chap. x, vol. I, of the present work.
? Writings published for the first time in posthumous collections have the date of
the collection given in parentheses. Titles will be found under · Editions. '
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iii. Works originally designed for parts of the Instauratio but superseded
or abandoned.
Cogitationes de Scientia Humana. (A series of fragments of uncertain
date, first published by Spedding (Bacon's Works, vol. 111), who supplied
the title. )
Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature; with the annotations of
Hermes Stella (1734).
The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon of the Proficience and Advancement of
Learning Divine and Humane. 1605.
Filum Labyrinthi, sive Formula Inquisitionis (1734) (little else than an English
version of the Cogitata et Visa).
De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium (1653).
Temporis Partus Masculus sive Instauratio Magna Imperii Humani in Uni-
versum (1653).
Partis Instaurationis Secundae Delineatio et Argumentum, et Redargutio
philosophiarum (1653, in part).
Cogitata et Visa: de Interpretatione Naturae, sive de Scientia Operativa
(1653).
Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Moto (1653).
Sequela Cartarum; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Calore et Frigore (1734).
Historia et Inquisitio Prima de Sono et Auditu, et de Forma Soni et Latente
Processu Soni; sive Sylva Soni et Auditus (1658).
Phaenomena Universi; sive Historia Naturalis ad Condendam Philosophiam
(1653).
Descriptio Globi Intellectualis et Thema Coeli (1653).
De Interpretatione Naturae Sententiae XII (1653).
Aphorismi et Consilia (1653).
Literary Works.
Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene
and allowed. 1597. (There are ten essays in this volume. The Religious
Meditations are in Latin and are entitled Meditationes Sacrae; the Places
of perswasion and disswasion are in English and are entitled Coulers of
Good and Evill; a fragment. Reprinted in 1598, 1604 and 1606. )
The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon Knight the kings solliciter generall. 1612.
(This volume contains essays only-thirty-eight in number, twenty-nine
of them new, and the rest corrected and enlarged. )
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount
St Alban. 1625. (This volume contains fifty-eight essays, twenty of them
being new and most of the rest altered and enlarged. )
De Sapientia Veterum Liber, ad inclytam academiam Cantabrigiensem.
1609.
The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh. 1622.
Advertisement touching an Holy Warre. Written in the year 1622. 1629.
Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain (1734).
Apothegmes new and old. 1625.
Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (begun 1594, published 1882, and in
part by Spedding, vol. vıı).
Translation of Certaine Psalmes into English Verse. 1625.
Professional Works.
Maxims of the Law (written about 1597; first printed 1630).
Reading on the Statute of Uses (read at Gray's Inn in the Lent vacation,
1600; first printed in 1642).
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Bibliography
The Arguments of Law of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, The King's Solicitor.
General, in certain great and difficult cases. (Revised by Bacon in 1616,
but not published by him; first printed by Blackbourne in 1730.
