The Division of a Paper Kingdom: The tragic afterlives of Francis Bacon’s manuscripts


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Serjeantson, Richard  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5795-8055
Abstract

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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Francis Bacon, Manuscript history, William Boswell, John Williams, William Rawley, Isaac Gruter
Is Part Of
Archival Afterlives Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives
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European Research Council (617391)