The Division of a Paper Kingdom: The tragic afterlives of Francis Bacon’s manuscripts
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Establishes the fortunes of the manuscripts of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) from the moment of his death until their arrival in their current repositories in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The Division of a Paper Kingdom: The tragic afterlives of Francis Bacon’s manuscripts
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Francis Bacon, Manuscript history, William Boswell, John Williams, William Rawley, Isaac Gruter
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Archival Afterlives Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives
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Brill
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9004324291
9789004324299
9789004324299
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European Research Council (617391)