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  • MSS Hobbes Collection 003

    Copy, on 216 quarto pages (plus a 26-page list of contents), dated January 1651/2 to December 1653.

    In the hand of one Francis Hillen, of Yarmouth and Gisleham, Suffolk, whose inscriptions include (p 1) ffrances Hillen 1645; (p. 4) I Coppied & begun it this 14: Ian: 1651/52 by Fr. Hillen and Mr: Ri: Elivin of Yarm: lent mee ye written copie wch I haue undertaken likewise; (p. 74) 6/10 1653; (p. 112) Frs. Hillen I ended ye Copying this first part ye 8th day of ye 7th. Mon: 1653, (p. 216) finished ye .1. Decemb: 1653. Praised by ye Lord ye giuer of wisedome; and (at end of contents page) Copied, Finished, & ended in ye yeare <deleted> & in ye yeare of our Lord. 1653. / In Gisleham Suff. ye 2e. daij of Decembr:/.

    1652-3.

    Sotheby's, 2 May 1966, lot 229, to H.A. Levinson. Formerly MS 3063.

    • HbT 28
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

      Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

  • MSS Hobbes Collection 002

    Copy of a Latin poem on the movement of the Earth, dedicated to the third Earl of Devonshire, in the hand of an amanuensis, with two words possibly in Hobbes's hand, on ten leaves.

    c.1645-55?.

    Formerly bound in a collection of 16th-century treatises on astronomy once owned by the Right Honourable John Earl of Exeter, Baron Cecil of Burghley. Formerly MS 3064.

    Edited from this MS in Jacquot & Jones.

    • HbT 4
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice I, pp. 439-47.

      Thomas Hobbes, De Motibus Solis, Aetheris & Telluris. Praecipuè autem Numeri Dierum In hemisphaerio Boreo, quàm in Australi Majoris, Causa conjecturalis ('Antiquâ dudum Tellus statione relictâ')

  • MSS Hobbes Collection 001

    Copy, on twelve folio pages.

    Late 17th century.

    Thomas Rodd, Catalogue of a collection of manuscripts (1838), item 254. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 29 June 65, lot 151, to Hatchwell. Formerly MS 5161.

    • HbT 31
      No description or publication history available.

      A tract beginning The word Heresie is Greek, and signifies a taking of any thing.... First published in London, 1680. Molesworth, English, IV, 385-408.

      Thomas Hobbes, An Historical Narration concerning Heresy and the Punishment thereof

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