Francis Bacon and ‘The Summe of the Bible’
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At some point in 1639, the scholarly Justinian Isham heard of an intriguing manuscript by Francis Bacon (1561–1626) in the possession of Sir Christopher Hatton. Samuel Hartlib recorded Isham’s information in his Ephemerides: it was apparently ‘a MS. of Verulam containing an Epitome of the Histories of the Bibel’.1 In September Isham took the opportunity to see this document.
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English literature, 1600-1699, Bacon, Francis(1561-1626), 0000 0001 2126 5700, abridgment, Bible, attribution of authorship
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0029-3970
1471-6941
1471-6941
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64
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Oxford University Press
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European Research Council (617391)
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 617391.