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Add MS 15116
- Record Id:
- 032-002086809
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086809
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x0001b4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164915709.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15116
- Title:
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Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a war with Spain
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of ‘Considerations touching a war with Spain’, by Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626), Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher. Written in 1624 and first published in 1629. This copy addresses Prince Charles as ‘the King’, indicating that it postdates the accession of Charles I (27 March 1625).
f. 1r: Title page. ‘Considerations touchinge a warre w[i]th Spaine’.
ff. 1r-39r: Francis Bacon, ‘Considerations touching a war with Spain’. Addressed ‘To the Kinge’, i.e. Charles I (1600–1649), king of England, Scotland and Ireland. Beginning ‘Your highness hath an Emperiall Name’, and ending ‘the ballanceinge of the Forces betweene the Kinges Ma[jes]tie and the Kinge of Spaine yf a Warre must followe. Finis’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086809
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086809
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164915709.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1625
- End Date:
- 1645
- Date Range:
- 1625-c.1640
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. xxii + 39.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd (1796–1849), bookseller, 13 April 1844.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 91.
'Add MS 15116', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-15000.html [accessed 04 November 2019].
Bacon, Francis, Considerations Touching a Warre With Spaine (London, 1629).
Bacon, Francis, The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols. (London: Longmans, 1857-74).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)