Verse
See also HbT 65-66.
De Mirabilibus Pecci (‘Alpibus Angliacis, ubi Pecci nomine surgit’)
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.
HbT 0.5
Copy, ‘in a fine Italian hand’, on quarto leaves. 17th century.
Cochrane's sale catalogue of manuscripts, No. 2 (1837), item 528. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogues of manuscripts, 1841, item 609; and 1846, p. 45.
HbT 0.8
Copy, with other verses. Late 17th century.
Christie's, 10 January 1831, lot 114. Possibly the same MS, including other verses and Hobbes's Vita carmine expressa (1879), ex libris the Earl of Sefton, later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector, sold at Sotheby's, 25 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 110, to Sotheran.
HbT 1
Copy, including the dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, in the hands of two amanuenses, on fourteen folio pages. c.1626-8.
This MS (once erroneously described as autograph) given to the eighth Duke of Devonshire in 1850 by the Derbyshire antiquary Thomas Bateman, of Middleton Hall.
HbT 2
Copy, subscribed ‘mihi.-Edited’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, 95 leaves in all. This MS is a companion volume to British Library, Add. MS 69823, and in the same hand. Folios 1-45 contain academic speeches of 1651-63, chiefly in Latin, relating to both Oxford and Cambridge (but chiefly Christ Church, Oxford), and ff. 46-95 verses written sideways across the length of the pages. Some poems are docketed later c.1686 ‘Mihi - Edited’ [i.e. presumably that the owner has the Edited version]. c.1667.
Inscribed on first page ‘Mr Mathews, the Bbinder D: Frown[?]. Mar. 16. 67. 0.0.6.7’ [i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Also (on f. 95v): ‘Charles Trumbull’ [D.D. (c.1646-1724), chaplain to Bishop Sancroft], ‘Ralphe Trumbull’ [(c.1640-1708), both brothers of the lawyer and government official Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716)]; and ‘Sandys’. Later note on upper endpaper that this MS was No. CCVIII of Dr Adam Clarke's MSS and was purchased 29 May 1838 from Baynes.
HbT 3
Copy entered at the end of a miscellany.
In: Miscellany compiled by Dr Edward Browne (1644-1708), son of Sir Thomas Browne. Late 17th century.
De Motibus Solis, Aetheris & Telluris. Praecipuè autem Numeri Dierum In hemisphaerio Boreo, quàm in Australi Majoris, Causa conjecturalis (‘Antiquâ dudum Tellus statione relictâ’)
First published in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice I, pp. 439-47.
HbT 4
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.
University of Toronto, Fisher Library, MSS Hobbes Collection 002.
HbT 4.5
Copy in: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 262 leaves, mounted on guards, in brown morocco gilt. Vol. L of the Petty Papers, owned principally by Sir William Petty (1623-87), natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland.
Formerly owned by the Earl of Shelburne, Bowood House (Petty Papers, Vol. 2).
Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata (‘Quid fers, Prime, novi? Visendae quae fuit urbis’)
First published [in London], 1688. Molesworth, Latin, V, 341-408.
HbT 5
Copy of the complete poem, in a professional hand, with many corrections and annotations and the last four lines in another hand, on 41 quarto leaves. c.1667?.
‘Tho' I am now past ninety, and too old’
First published in Clark (1898), I, 364-5.
HbT 6
Copy by Aubrey of ‘love verses he [Hobbes] made not long before his death’, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the fourth part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), occupied by his collections for ‘The Life of Mr Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesburie’, 76 leaves of various sizes. c.1680-1.
Edited from this MS in Clark.
Vita carmine expressa (‘Natus erat noster servator Homo-Deus annos’)
First published in London, 1679. Molesworth, Latin, I, lxxxi-xcix. See also HbT 0.8.
*HbT 7
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with one or two corrections in the faltering hand of Hobbes, untitled, on ten folio pages. c.1672-3.
HbT 7.5
Copy, headed ‘Vita Thomæ Hobbes Malmes-buriensis usque ad Annum Millesemum, sexcentissimum septuagesimum secundum, ætatis vero Octagisimum quartum ab ipso conscripta’.
In: A quarto notebook of English and Latin verse and prose, in two or more cursive hands, ii + 100 leaves, in later black morocco. Late 17th century.
Armorial bookplate of Henry Ellison, of University College, Oxford, and his inscription (f. 43r) dated March 14th 1841. Donated in 1951 by Mrs G.L. Barstow.
Prose
Works by Hobbes Published No Later than 1682
Answer to the Preface of Davenant's Gondibert
First published in Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (London, 1651), pp. 71-88. Molesworth, English, IV, 441-58.
HbT 7.8
Extracts, headed ‘Mr Hobbs's answer to ye Preface’.
In: A tall folio composite volume of commonplace-book notes and extracts, chiefly in the hand of John Evelyn the younger, on various paper sizes, 248 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Late 17th century.
Volume CCLXXVI of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 281.
Behemoth or The Long Parliament
First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).
*HbT 8
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Arlington, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hobbes's autograph corrections, 90 folio leaves. c.1668.
‘Ex dono Car. Wheatley, 1706’.
Edited from this MS in Tönnies.
HbT 9
Copy, on 261 pages, in calf. Late 17th century.
Acquired in 1934.
HbT 10
Copy …, headed ‘Behemoth, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England’. Copy in two scribal hands, with additions in a third hand, headed ‘Behemoth, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England’, on 64 folio leaves. Late 17th century.
HbT 11
Copy, headed ‘The Epitome of the Civill Warres of England’, on 267 folio pages. Late 17th century.
HbT 12
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, entitled ‘Behemoth or an Epitome of ye Warrs In England By Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury’, 62 double-folio-size leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Thomas Cobbe: i.e. probably Colonel Thomas Cobbe (1733-c.1799), of Newbridge, Co. Dublin. Purchased from Mr Mercier December 1806. Old pressmark I. 1. 1.
HbT 13
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, headed ‘Behemoth or The Epitome of the civil warrs of England’, subscribed ‘1680’, with a list of books added at the end, vi + 116 folio leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1680.
Purchased in December 1806 from Mr Mercier. Old pressmark I. 1. 7.
HbT 13.2
Extracts, inscribed ‘Hobs's Behemoth’.
In: A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards. c.1685-1700s.
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique
First published in London, [1637].
See also HbT 58.
*HbT 13.4
Copy, in the hand of the young Earl, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and revisions, headed ‘Ex. Aristot: Rhet. Lib. 1. Cap. 1’.
In: An octavo volume, sometimes known as the third Earl of Devonshire's ‘Dictation Book’, 160 pages (plus blanks), in calf. c.1633.
Formerly MS Hardwick 72.
This MS briefly discussed in A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, ed. John Harwood (Carbondale, 1986). Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as HbT 56.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS D. 1, pp. 1-143.
*HbT 13.6
Copy, in the hand of the young Earl, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and revisions.
In: the MS described under HbT 13.4. c.1633.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS D. 1, pp. 160-154 rev.
De Cive
See HbT 18.
De Corpore
See HbT 14-16.
De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politic
See HbT 19-28.
De Homine
See HbT 17.
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides
Hobbes's translation, first published in London, 1629.
HbT 13.8
Extracts, in the hand of Hammond's cousin A. Twyman, of St John's College, Oxford, including ff. 27r, 29r, 39r, 63r, 67r, and 89r. c.1699.
In: A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers and correspondence of Anthony Hammond, MP (1668-1738), politician, 107 leaves.
Elementorum philosophiae: sectio prima, de corpore
First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.
HbT 14
Early draft of sixteen chapters, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on 57 octavo pages (29 leaves, plus blanks). c.1645?
Chapters 1-6 edited from this MS (ff. 1-8v), with facsimiles of two pages, in Baron Cay von Brockdorff, ‘Die Urform der “Computatio sive Logica” des Hobbes’, Veröffentlichungen der Hobbes-Gesellschaft, No. 2 (Kiel, 1934). Edited complete from this MS in Jacquot & Jones (1973), Appendice III, pp. 461-513.
*HbT 15
Copy of what appears to be the original chapter 19 (divided into nineteen sections and dealing with the geometry of the parabola, hyperbola and ellipse), in the neat professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 35 quarto leaves. c.1648-9?
This chapter later rejected from the printed version and as yet unpublished. Discussed in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosophia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 25-6.
HbT 16
Notes, with summaries and extracts, on an early version of the work, in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
In: A composite volume of papers of Sir Charles Cavendish (1591-1654).
Part of this MS printed in Jean Jacquot, ‘Un document inédit: les notes de Charles Cavendish sur la première version du “De corpore” de Hobbes’, Thalès, 8 (1952), 33-86. Discussed and collated in part in Arrigo Pacchi, ‘Ruggero Bacone e Roberto Grossatesta in un inedito Hobbesiano del 1634’, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 20 (1965), pp. 15, 18-23, and in Jacquot & Jones (1973), pp. 83-8, 461-513.
Elementorum philosophiae: sectio secunda, de homine
First published in London, 1658. Molesworth, Latin, II, 1-132.
See also HbT 65.
HbT 17
Fragment of a formal copy, comprising chapter 3 and part of chapter 2, in the neat professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, together with six engraved geometrical diagrams, on fifteen quarto pages. c.1649.
Facsimile of p. 1 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 207).
Elementorum philosophiae: sectio tertia, de cive
First published in London, 1642. Molesworth, Latin, II, 133-432. Warrender, De Cive: Latin (1983).
*HbT 18
A formal copy, in the professional hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, on 228 folio pages of vellum, with an emblematically decorated title-page, the dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire bearing Hobbes's autograph signature, in later red morocco gilt. Evidently Hobbes's formal presentation copy to the Earl, dated from Paris, 1641. c.1641.
Edited in part from this MS in Warrender and discussed, pp. 38-40, with facsimiles of the title-page and the end of the dedication in the frontispiece and plate II, after p. xiv. Also discussed by Howard Warrender in ‘The Early Latin Version of Thomas Hobbes's De Cive’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 40-52 (pp. 42-3). Facsimile of p. 62 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 206).
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
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).
*HbT 19
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis… Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, the dedication to the Earl of Newcastle signed by Hobbes and with Hobbes's autograph corrections, revisions and marginal sidenotes in the text (particularly on ff. 16, 21, 62, 64, 102, 110v, 112, 113v, 114v, 116v), also with some marginal notes in another hand, on 143 folio leaves. c.1640.
Edited largely from this MS in Tönnies's edition.
HbT 19.2
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, including material relating to Oxford University, probably in several hands, 55 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. c.1677.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Enock [b.1657/8] e coll: Trin: Oxon’, possibly the principal compiler.
HbT 19.5
Copy, in an unidentified hand, of the dedicatory epistle to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640. This MS is extracted from HbT 21. 1640.
Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).
Edited in part from this MS in The R.B. Adam Library, vol. III (London, 1929), 128-9. Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 492.
HbT 19.8
Extracts, headed ‘Mr Hobs his booke of human Nature / Of Prudence’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
*HbT 20
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hobbes's autograph signed dedication to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640, and some autograph corrections and marginal notes, on 302 large folio pages. 1640.
HbT 21
Copy, with alterations, in the hand of an amanuensis, some corrections in a neat italic hand, lacking a title-page and the dedicationon, xviii + 289 large folio pages. For the dedication from this MS, see HbT 19.5. c.1640.
This MS item 133 in Treasures from Chatsworth, intro. by Sir Anthony Blunt (International Exhibitions Foundation, 1979-80), where it is erroneously described as autograph.
HbT 22
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, incomplete, lacking the last page of the dedication, 366 folio pages. c.1640.
HbT 23
Copy, in a professional hand, on 166 folio leaves. c.1640s.
Later in the library of the Porte family, of Islam. Bought by W. Ford in 1807. Acquired by the British Museum from Boone in 1866.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
HbT 24
Copy, in a professional hand, on 149 folio leaves. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
HbT 25
Copy, including the dedication, in a scribal hand, with some corrections in another hand, on 166 large folio pages. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
HbT 26
Copy of chapters 1-13 (i.e.Humane Nature) in a scribal hand on 32 folio leaves. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
HbT 27
Copy, in a professional hand, on 273 folio pages. c.1640s.
Later owned by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Sotheby's, 6 April 1807 (Sebright sale), lot 1154, to [Richard] Heber. Sotheby's, 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, part XI), lot 839, to Thomas Thorpe. Bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 27 April to 2 May 1903 (Phillipps sale), 3rd day, lot 595, to Rylett.
HbT 27.5
Copy, in one or possibly two professional hands, headed ‘The Elements of Lawe Naturall and Politique By Mr Hobbs’, 52 folio leaves. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, 233 leaves, in contemporary calf.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2099, ff. 84r-173v.
HbT 28
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.
University of Toronto, Fisher Library, MSS Hobbes Collection 003.
An Historical Narration concerning Heresy and the Punishment thereof
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.
HbT 29
Copy, incomplete, headed ‘Of Heresy: written ('tis said) by Tho. Hobbes’, on four pages of three folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A composite volume of tracts.
HbT 30
Copy in three hands, with annotations in the hand of Thomas Barlow.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, 342 leaves, in boards. In various hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Assembled by Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln, book collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 100).
HbT 31
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.
University of Toronto, Fisher Library, MSS Hobbes Collection 001.
Human Nature: Or The Fundamental Elements of Policy
See HbT 19-28.
Leviathan
First published in London, 1651. Molesworth, English, III. Edited by Karl Schuhmann and G.A.J. Rogers, 2 vols (Bristol, 2003-5) [and see Noel Malcolm's review in TLS, 3 December 2004, pp. 3-4].
*HbT 32
A formal copy, without dedication, in the professional and of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with Hobbes's autograph corrections and marginal annotations (particularly on ff. 16, 38v-40, 41, 44v, 53, 58v, 235v-9), on 248 quarto vellum pages. Traditionally believed to be the author's presentation copy to Charles II. 1650-1.
Later owners: Philip Carteret Webb (1700-70), antiquary and politician. S. Baker and G. Leigh, 25 February 1771 (Webb sale), lot 2826. William Henry Pratt, of Lissanoure, Antrim (according to a letter by him of 30 June 1802). George, Earl Macartney (d.1806). Acquired from George Macartney Esq., 13 April 1861.
This MS discussed in Keith Brown, ‘The Artist of the Leviathan Title-Page’, BLJ, 4 (1978), 24-36, where the drawing on the title-page is attributed to the Bohemian artist and engraver Wenzel Hollar (1607-77). Facsimile of p. 144 in Noel Malcolm, ‘Hobbes, the Latin Optical Manuscript, and the Parisian Scribe’, EMS, 12 (2005). 210-32 (p. 213).
HbT 32.5
Extracts, headed ‘Collections out of Mr Hobbs Leviathan’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts from printed sources, in English and French, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. c.1656.
Volume CCLVI of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, as Evelyn MS 254. Purchased March 1995.
Recorded (as the ‘Tuke MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 214).
HbT 32.8
Extracts.
In: A quarto volume of miscellaneous collections, 211 leaves. Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Of Liberty and Necessity
First published in London, 1654. Molesworth, English, IV, 229-78.
HbT 33
Copy, with a title-page, as ‘By Tho: Hobbes’, with the dedication to the Marquess of Newcastle, in a professional hand, on 31 quarto leaves; imperfect at the end. c.1645?
In: A quarto composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern half-calf gilt.
Probably the MS once owned by Thomas Rawlinson. Ballard's sale, 4 March 1733/4, lot 725.
Seven Philosophical Problems
First published in London, 1682. Molesworth, English, VII, 1-68.
HbT 34
Copy, complete with dedication to the King, in a professional hand, on 32 folio leaves. c.1662?
HbT 35
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, untitled, complete with dedication ‘To the King’, superscribed ‘Mr Hobs’ and subscribed ‘Thomas Hobbes’, on 78 folio pages, sent to the Royal Society, inscribed in the margin ‘Read Mar: 19: [16]61[/2]’. 1661/2.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, seventeen items, unfoliated, in contemporary vellum boards with traces of ties.
Royal Society, London, Extra MS Vol. 1 (MS 366), MS 366/1/1.
Tractatus opticus
Molesworth, Latin, V, 217-47.
See HbT 77, and Hobbes's letter to Mersenne, 5 November 1640, cited in the Introduction.
Posthumously Published Works and Miscellaneous Papers Probably Written or Used by Hobbes
Abstracts from Roman history
Unpublished.
HbT 36
A quarto volume, containing a series of abstracts from Roman history, in the large childish hand of William Cavendish, later third Earl of Devonshire, evidently written as exercises probably for Hobbes, 106 quarto pages, in limp vellum. Early-mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 73.
Articles of Impeachmt of high Treason & other high crimes and offences against William Earle of Powys William Viscount Stafford Henery Lord Arrundell of Wordour William Lord Petre & John Lord Bellacys: now Prisonrs in the Tower
HbT 37
Copy of Articles of Impeachmt of high Treason & other high crimes and offences against William Earle of Powys William Viscount Stafford Henery Lord Arrundell of Wordour William Lord Petre & John Lord Bellacys: now Prisonrs in the Tower, in an unidentified hand, on six folio pages, endorsed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), also endorsed ‘For Mr Halleley...’. c.1678-9.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 69.
Authores citati a Bonaventura Cavalieri in Specchio Ustorio
HbT 38
List of ‘Authores citati a Bonaventura Cavalieri in Specchio Ustorio’, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on one side of a long octavo leaf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 64.
Autobiography
A brief autobiography in Latin. First published in Clark (1898), I, 395-403.
HbT 39
Copy by Aubrey, transcribed from Hobbes's original autograph draft which Hobbes ‘did leave in [Aubrey's] hands’ but which he later ‘sent for about 2 yeares before he died’.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited from this MS in Clark. Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 37.
According to Aubrey, Hobbes revised and rewrote his autobiography and Aubrey lent the [new] MS to Dr Richard Blackbourne, who published it as the second item in his edition of Hobbes's Vita (London, 1681), but who neglected to retrieve the MS ‘from the printer and so “twas made wast paper of”’.
Beaugrand, Jean de. Geostaticae sev de vario pondere grauium secundum uaria a terrae centro intervalla. dissertatio mathematica
A treatise dedicated to Cardinal de Richelieu, published in Paris, 1636.
*HbT 40
Copy of the treatise by Jean de Beaugrand, in the hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with additions possibly by Hobbes on the title-page and on pp. [15], [17], [18] and [39], on 42 large folio pages. c.1640s.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 54. Facsimile of p. 8 in Timothy Raylor, ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9 (p. 295).
Castelli, Benedetto. Geometricall Demonstration Of the Measure of Running-waters...Translated out of Italian
Unpublished.
*HbT 41
MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), of a translation of the work by ‘Benedetto Castelli [1578-1643] Monck of Cassina; and Mathematician to Pope Vrban. 8 Printed in Rome. 1628. Translated out of Italian. 1635’, ‘by Mr Robert Payen’ added in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish. 1635.
In: A folio composite volume of philosophical tracts, owned, at least in part, by Sir Charles Cavendish (1591-1654) and possibly containing MSS sent to him from Paris by Marin Mersenne. c.1640s.
The complete MS volume, without the diagrams, edited in Franco Alessio in Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 18 (Florence, 1963), 147-228. Discussed by Timothy Raylor, with facsimile examples, in ‘Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles’, The Historical Journal, 33 (2001), 29-58, and in ‘The Date and Script of Hobbes's Latin Optical Manuscript’, EMS, 12 (2005), 201-9.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 44. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Erroneously once thought to be in Hobbes's hand. Facsimile of f. 310v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 38.
Complimentary verse
Unpublished.
HbT 42
MS of eighteen complimentary lines of verse to Hobbes, in acknowledgement of his commendation of ‘the Picture I have drawn’, untitled and beginning ‘My hopes have there succes, since that I find’, on a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
A possible candidate for authorship is the miniaturist Samuel Cooper (1607/8-72), who, according to John Aubrey, was a friend of Hobbes.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 65.
Concerning ye Compression of Aire
Unpublished.
HbT 43
Copy of a scientific paper, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Mr Hobbs Concerning ye Compression of Aire’, followed by ‘Maximes necessary for those, yt from ye sight of an Effect, shall endeavor to assigne its Naturall Cause’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, sent to the Royal Society. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 85 items, unfoliated, all mounted on guards, in modern boards with ties.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 75.
Considerations touching the facility or Difficulty of the Motions of a Horse, on streight lines, & circular
A tract in twenty-three sections, beginning ‘The most naturall & easy posture of the body of a Horse, at rest, is in a streight line…’. First published, as if ny Hobbes, in S. Arthur Strong, A Catalogue of Letters and Other Historical Documents Exhibited in the Library at Welbeck (London, 1903), pp. 237-40. Probably written by Robert Payne (1596-1651), the Cavendish family's chaplain.
*HbT 44
Draft, with revisions, in the hand of Robert Payne. Mid-late 17th century?
Formerly among the muniments of the Duke of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire (MS III. C. 3).
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 82. Edited from this MS, as if Hobbes's holograph. In Strong, with a facsimile of the first page facing p. 55. Recorded in Macdonald & Hargreaves, p. xv.
Cyclometria
An upublished Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning ‘Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…’).
*HbT 45
Fragment of a Latin treatise on Geometry, probably entitled Cyclometria (beginning ‘Quin Cyclometria totius Geometriae pars pulcherrima sit…’), with a dedication to the third Earl of Devonshire, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), with a few autograph corrections and revisions by Hobbes, on nine folio pages. [After 1678].
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 48. Hobbes refers to this treatise in his letter to the Duke of Ormonde, 14 August 1677 (see HbT 164), as ‘to be published…by some frend or other’ after his death.
Epigrams
Unpublished.
HbT 46
A quarto volume containing 103 anonymous English verse epigrams in imitation of Martial, dedicated to William Cavendish (later second Earl of Devonshire), in an unidentified hand, the last two epigrams on p. 37 in different hands, 33 pages, in limp vellum. 17th century.
Inscribed names (p. 38) of Edward Sackville and William Cavendish.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 66.
Essays
Anonymously published (together with two further essays on Country Life and Religion and with four discourses) under the title Horae subsecivae. Observations and Discourses (London, 1620).
*HbT 47
A quarto volume of essays, probably by the young William Cavendish (1590-1628), (second Earl of Devonshire, in Hobbes's early formal hand, with some corrections probably in Cavendish's hand, vi + 78 pages, in vellum gilt. A series of ten formal essays on Arrogance, Ambition, Affectation, Detraction, Self-will, Masters and Servants, Expenses, Visitations, Death and Reading of Histories, with a dedication by William Cavendish to his father. c.1611-14?
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 58. This MS edited, and authorship attributed to Hobbes, in Friedrich O. Wolf, Die neue Wissenschaft des Thomas Hobbes (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1969), pp. 113-67. Hobbes's authorship rejected in favour of William Cavendish by E.G. Jacoby, H.W. Jones, M.M. Goldsmith, Douglas Bush and Noel Malcolm (see especially Annals of Science, 32 (1975), 401-3; N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4; and Historical Journal, 24 (1981), 297-321 (pp. 320-1)). The essays also discussed in Hamilton, pp. 451-2 (who argues that the MS ‘is not… in Hobbes's handwriting’ and that it is ‘merely a handwritten copy of the printed version’). The authorship and date remain controversial.
The Exclusion Act
HbT 48
A Copy of the Bill concerning the D: of York [the Exclusion Act, 5 May 1679], in an unidentified hand, docketed by one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on five folio and two quarto pages. Late 17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 71.
Fermat, Pierre de. Appollonij Pergei doctrinam
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
HbT 49
Copy of the treatise by Pierre de Fermat (1601-75), in the hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with diagrams, on 16 large folio pages. c.1643.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 52.
Galileo, Galilei. Of the Profitt wch is drawen from the Art Mechaniq[ue] & it's Instruments
Unpublished translation.
*HbT 50
MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), of a translation of Galileo's work, subscribed ‘Raptim ex Italico in Anglicum Sermonem transfusum. Nouemb. 11°. 1636’, ‘By Mr Robert Payen’ added in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
In: the MS described under HbT 41. c.1640s.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 45. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Facsimile of f. 324r, wrongly identified as in Hobbes's hand, in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIV, after p. xxiv.
Geometrical axioms and definitions
Unpublished.
*HbT 51
Copy of an untitled Latin compilation of geometrical axioms and definitions, presumably made for Hobbes's personal use, in a professional hand, with a few minor autograph corrections probably by Hobbes (on pp. 21, 34, 36, 37), on 42 quarto pages. c.1641?
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 46.
Geometrical propositions
Unpublished.
*HbT 52
A folio exercise book containing thirty geometrical propositions, in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with autograph corrections and additions by Hobbes, 21 pages. Early-mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 57.
Glossopaideia. that is. The Ready way of teaching and learning The Languages
Unpublished.
HbT 53
Copy of the treatise by ‘G. F.’, dedicated to ‘the most noble Ladie A’ whom the author addresses as ‘Your Highness’ [i.e. ? Lady Arbella Stuart (1575-1615)], in an unidentified hand, on 87 quarto pages (including blanks). Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 49.
Gunter, Edmund. De lineis regulae principalibus
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
HbT 54
Copy of the treatise by Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), docketed as ‘Transcript. ex MS. Autographo ipsi[u]s Authoris dn Edmi Gunter. ex Aede Chri Oxon’, on 59 quarto pages. c.1630s?
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 51.
Hobbes's Translation of Altera secretissima instructio
Translation of the political pamphlet Altera secretissima instructio Gallo-Britanno-Batava Friderico V data, ex belgica in latinam versa, et optimo publico evulgata (‘The Hague’, 1626). First published in Noel Malcolm, Reasons of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (Oxford, 2007), texts of the translation and original Latin on pp. 124-99.
*HbT 55
Autograph manuscript, entitled ‘A second most secret instruction Gallo-britanno-batauian, giuen to Fredericke the V. Translated out of Low Dutch into Latine, and diuulged for the most publique good. At Hague, by permission of ye Senate. 1626’. c.1626.
In: A folio guardbook of letters and papers, in various hands, i + 358 leaves.
Volume CCCCXCIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/235.
Edited from this MS in Malcolm, with a facsimile of f. 74r facing p. 22.
The Last Sayings, or Dying Legacy of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmesbury, who departed this life on Thursday, Decemb. 4. 1679
Various ‘sayings’ by Hobbes chiefly taken from Leviathan. First published, as a broadside, in London, 1680.
HbT 56
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf. Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.
Owned by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Latin digests
Unpublished.
*HbT 58
Copy of three Latin digests, in the hands of several amanuenses. Probably prepared by Hobbes for his pupil, the third Earl of Devonshire. Mid-17th century.
Comprising:
(A) Julij Cæsaris Scaligeri de subtilitate (parts i-iii), signed by Hobbes and the short titles of each section possibly in his hand, on 105 folio pages;
(B) Aristotelis rhetorica, on 21 folio pages;
(C) Aristotelis parva moralia, on 39 folio pages.
These MSS formerly in two volumes but rebound as one volume in 1939 when the sections were sewn in the wrong order (viz. Aiii, B, C, Ai, Aii).
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 47. Item B bears some relation to A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (London [1637]) [Molesworth, English, VI, 419-536], and see also HbT 56. This MS recorded in Hamilton, p. 451.
Legal brief
First published in Samuel I. Mintz, ‘Hobbes on the Law of Heresy: A New Manuscript’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 29 (1968), 409-14.
HbT 59
Copy of a legal brief evidently composed by Hobbes, in the hand of an amanuensis (James Wheldon), untitled and beginning ‘Concerning the punishment of such persons as by word or writing uttered any thing contrary to the definition or determination of Holy Church…’), on two folio leaves. c.1660s?
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 74. Edited from this MS in Mintz. Also discussed by Robert Willman in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 607-13, and by Mintz in Journal of the History of Ideas, 31 (1970), 614-15.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, MS Hardwick, Drawer 145, No. 18.
Library catalogues
See Introduction, under Hobbes's Library.
The Lord Shaftsburys Speech in the House of Lords March. 25. 1679
HbT 60
Copy of The Lord Shaftsburys Speech in the House of Lords March. 25. 1679, in an unidentified hand, with corrections in a second hand, endorsed by James Wheldon, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 70.
The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword
First published in Timothy Raylor, ‘Thomas Hobbes and “The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword”’, The Seventeenth Century, 15/2 (Autumn 2000), 175-98.
*HbT 61
Autograph, headed ‘To compare the strength of two swords that presse each other’, on six quarto pages of text plus two folding leaves of partly annotated diagrams; an initial blank leaf with an attached slip inscribed ‘Henry Duke of Newcastle his booke 1676’; the verso of the blank inscribed by William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, ‘The Mathematicall Demonstration off The sorde’. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Raylor, with facsimile examples.
A mathematical theorem
Unpublished.
*HbT 62
Autograph signed demonstration by Hobbes of a mathematical theorem, in Latin, with a diagram, on a single folio leaf.
In: A composite volume of papers of Dr John Pell (1611-85), mathematician. c.1645.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 38.
Memorandum
Unpublished.
*HbT 63
Autograph memorandum signed by Hobbes, relating to the Earl of Devonshire's steward Humphrey Poole, dated 15 September 1640, on an oblong strip of paper. 1640.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 62.
Micanza, Fulgenzio. Letters
HbT 64
A folio volume containing English translations made by Hobbes of 76 letters by the Venetian patriot Fr. Fulgenzio Micanza, letters sent between 1615 and 1625 to William Cavendish, second Earl of Devonshire (1591?-1628), in the hands of two amanuenses, with autograph annotations by Hobbes on the first page, 277 folio pages (plus blanks), in vellum. Mid-17th century.
Owned c.1813 by G. Dyer, of Exeter. Formerly MS Hardwick 73Aa.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 72. The essays are discussed in Vittorio Gabrieli, ‘Bacone, la riforma e Roma nella versione Hobbesiana d'un carteggio di Fulgenzio Micanzio’, EM, 8 (1957), 195-250. The MS also briefly discussed in Arthur T. Shillinglaw, ‘Hobbes and Ben Jonson’, TLS (18 April 1936), p. 336.
Another MS copy of these letters is in the British Library, Add. MS 11309.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS [unnumbered].
A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques
An unpublished two-part treatise on optics, the first part ‘On Illumination’, the second part ‘On Vision’, dedicated to the Marquess of Newcastle.
*HbT 65
Copy. Copy of a two-part treatise on optics, A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques, the first part ‘On Illumination’, the second part ‘On Vision’, complete with diagrams and a dedication to the Marquess of Newcastle, in the hand of an amanuensis, with some autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 193 quarto pages. Paris, 1646. 1646.
NB. Hobbes is known to have used as his amanuensis for this treatise William Petty (1623-87): see Charles Cavendish's letter of 11 November 1645 to William Pell (British Library, Add. MS 4278, f. 207) and John Aubrey (Clark, I, 368).
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 40. A Latin version of the second part of this work was incorporated in De Homine (see HbT 17). The dedication and closing passage of the treatise are printed from this MS in Molesworth, English, VII, 467-71. The treatise is discussed in Franco Alessio, ‘De Homine e A Minute or First Draught of The Optiques di Thomas Hobbes’, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 17 (Florence, 1962), 393-410.
Miscellaneous notes
HbT 66
Miscellaneous notes on physics (including Galileo's theory of gravity), astronomy, and geometry, including notes on Hobbes's draft of De corpore (chapters 12 and 13), all in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. iv. 1-7.
HbT 67
Miscellaneous notes on refraction and optics, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. v. 1-4.
HbT 68
Notes on chronology, in two hands, the second that of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. vi. 1-2.
*HbT 68.5
Miscellaneous notes chiefly on arithmetical and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), and including autograph notes by Hobbes on fortification. Early-mid-17th century.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. vii. 1-12.
A Narration of ye Proceedings both Publique & Private, concerning ye Inheritance of ye Right Honble, William Earle of Devonshire, from ye time of ye decease of his Grandfather, to this present
Unpublished.
*HbT 69
Copy of A Narration of ye Proceedings both Publique & Private, concerning ye Inheritance of ye Right Honble, William Earle of Devonshire, from ye time of ye decease of his Grandfather, to this present, describing the administration of the Cavendish estates from 1625 to 1639 and the part played by Hobbes therein, in the hand of an amanuensis (? Christopher Hallely), signed four times by the third Earl of Devonshire and four times by Hobbes and witnessed by Christopher Hallely, dated 12 April 1639, on eight folio pages. 1639.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 61. This MS recorded in G.C. Robertson, Hobbes (Edinburgh & London, 1886), p. 27n, and in Douglas Bush, ‘Hobbes, William Cavendish, and “Essayes”’, N&Q, 218 (May 1973), 162-4. A passage cited in Hamilton, pp. 446-7 (where the MS is erroneously described as being ‘in Hobbes's handwriting’).
Note of ye prospective glasses
Unpublished.
HbT 70
MS ‘note of ye prospective glasses [by Fontana, Torricelli and others] bought of Mr. Hobbes ye 13th day of Aprill. 1659’, in an unidentified hand, on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves. 1659.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 63.
Notes and exercises
Unpublished.
HbT 71
A Collection of notes and exercises, chiefly in in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on c.107 quarto and octavo leaves. On mathematical and geometrical problems, physics, astronomy, optics, chronology, coinage and military fortification, chiefly in Latin, partly in English and a few pages in French, partly original, chiefly derived from other mathematicians and scientists (including Athanasius Kircher, William Oughtred, Thomas Harriot, Claude Mydorge, Evangelista Torricelli, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Descartes, Henry Briggs, Pappus of Alexandria, Walter Warner, Carlo Renaldini, Simon Stevinus, Galileo, Archimedes, and Kepler). Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 55.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. i. 1-13.
Notes on geometrical problems
HbT 72
A collection of notes, the first an autograph fragment by Hobbes, the rest in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651). Early-mid-17th century.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. ii. 1-7.
HbT 73
A collection of notes on proportions and geometrical problems, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651).
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Hobbes MSS C. iii. 1-11.
Of Passions
Unpublished.
HbT 74
Copy of part of a treatise ‘Of Passions’, here beginning ‘They are in generall the beginnings or endeuoures to animal motion…’, subscribed ‘parte of Mr: Hobbes his answeare to my brothers quaeres’, in the hand of Sir Charles Cavendish.
In: the MS described under HbT 16.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 41. This MS quoted in part in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 189).
On church and state
HbT 75
MS of a discussion in French, by P. de la Moulinière, on the relation between Church and State, written partly in refutation of Hobbes's opinion and with reference to Sorbière, headed ‘Les scribes et pharisiens sont assis en la cheze de moyse faittes tout ce qu'ils vous commanderont’, in an unidentified hand (possibly De la Moulinière's), on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 67.
On Refraction
Incorporated in the Tractatus opticus by Hobbes which was printed in Marin Mersenne, Cogitata physico-mathematica (Paris, 1644) [Molesworth, Latin, V, 217-47] and also in Hobbes's other Tractatus opticus (see HbT 91).
*HbT 77
Autograph MS of a paper on refraction, endorsed by Walter Warner ‘Mr Hobbes analogy’, on two quarto leaves.
In: A composite volume of papers of Walter Warner (d.1640). c.1634.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 39. This ‘analogy’ mentioned by Warner in a letter of 17 October 1634 (British Library, Add. MS 4279, f. 290). Discussed in Jacquot & Jones (1973), pp. 17-18.
On the municipal constitutions of French cities
Unpublished.
HbT 77.5
Fragment of a treatise in French on the municipal constitutions of French cities, in an unidentified hand, on a single folio leaf paginated 44 and 45. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 68.
On the rights of sovereignty
First published in Quentin Skinner, ‘Hobbes on Sovereignty: An Unknown Discussion’, Political Studies, 13 (1965), 213-18.
HbT 78
Fragment of a formal disputation on the rights of sovereignty, between Hobbes and ? the fourth Earl of Devonshire, the text beginning in the hand of the third Earl of Devonshire, with an answer in the hand of one of Hobbes's amanuenses (James Wheldon), on the first two pages (numbered 9 and 10) of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed ‘Questions relative to Hereditary Right. Mr Hobbes’. c.1670s.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 60. Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Skinner.
On virtue and religion
Unpublished.
HbT 79
Fragment of an untitled tract, on the relationship between virtue and religion (beginning ‘That vertue & religion are essentially the same…’), possibly composed by Hobbes, the hand possibly that of a member of the Cavendish family, on a single half-folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 59.
Oughtred, William. A Most Easy Way for the Delineation of plain Sundials only by Geometry
Published in 1647.
HbT 80
Copy of the treatise by William Oughtred (1575-1660), in at least one professional hand, with diagrams, and with annotations in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), on seven quarto pages. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 50.
Proposal concerning the English Navy
Proposal by Hobbes for persuading the Lord High Admiral, Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, to bring the English Navy over to King Charles I. Unpublished.
*HbT 81
Autograph, docketed by Sir Richard Browne ‘Propositions. E. of Warwick &ct. T.H.’ c.August 1648.
In: A composite volume of state papers, principally relating to the Civil War, 159 leaves.
Volume XXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.
A Proposition To find two meane proportionalls betweene two straight lines
Published in Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes, III (The Hague, 1890), 339-43.
HbT 82
Copy of ‘Mr Hobbs's Proposition To find two meane proportionalls betweene two straight lines Given’, with diagrams, subscribed ‘By ye Kings Order Brought in By Sr Paul Neile Sept: ye 4th. 1661 & Register'd Octob: ye 1st’, the text followed (pp. 101-2) by Viscount Brouncker's ‘answer’.
In: A folio register book of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1661-2, largely in two professional hands, with (pp. 217-21) a later ‘Table’ of contents subscribed ‘R. Waller: 1687’, 221 pages (plus blanks), in old reversed calf (rebacked). 1661-87.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 76.
HbT 83
Copy of HbT 82, as by ‘Mr. Hobbs’, subscribed ‘Brought in by Sr. Paul Neile Sept. 4th. 1661. Registred October 1st’.
In: A folio duplicate of Register Books 1 and 2 (in part) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1660-62, in a single professional hand, 343 pages plus a six-page ‘Catalogue’ of contents at the beginning and an eleven-page index at the end, in modern calf. Early-mid-18th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 77.
HbT 84
Copy of HbT 82, as by ‘Mr: Hobbs’.
In: A folio copy of Register Books 1 and 2 (incomplete) of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society in 1661-63, in a single professional hand, 536 pages, with a two-page table of contents at the beginning, in old reversed calf. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover as having been given by G. S. Heales of Doctors' Commons to Sir Joseph Banks, Bt (1743-1820), naturalist, President of the Royal Society, on 31 May 1814.
HbT 85
Copy of HbT 82.
In: A folio transcript of the Royal Society Register Book, 520 leaves. After 1661.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 78.
HbT 86
Copy of HbT 82, in the hand of William, second Viscount Brouncker (1620?-84), first President of the Royal Society, sent by Robert Moray to Christiaan Huygens, 23 September 1661.
In: MS volume.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 79. Edited from this MS in Huygens.
HbT 87
Copy of HbT 82, in the hand of Michael Weeks, Clerk of the Royal Society, in his transcript of part of the Royal Society Register Book.
In: Papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701).
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 80.
A Short Tract on First Principles
First published, as ‘A Short Tract on First Principles’, and attributed to Hobbes, in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix I, pp. 193-210. The authorship subsequently disputed and the tract attributed to Robert Payne: see Timothy Raylor, ‘Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles’, The Historical Journal, 33 (2001), 29-58.
*HbT 88
MS, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), untitled, on 12 folio leaves. c.1630.
In: the MS described under HbT 41. c.1640s.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 43. Edited from this MS, as if a Hobbes holograph, in Tönnies. Facsimile of f. 297r, in Raylor, p. 40.
Three propositions relating to triangles
Unpublished.
HbT 89
MS of a proof by Hobbes of three propositions relating to triangles, in Latin, on three folio pages.
Sotheby's, 24 April 1934, lot 408, to ‘Ulysses’.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 81.
Thomas White's De Mundo Examined
HbT 90
Copy of an untitled and extensive Latin treatise by Hobbes, constituting a detailed critique of Thomas White's treatise De mundo (Paris, 1642) and containing early versions of a number of passages in De Corpore (see HbT 14-16), in two scribal hands, with corrections in the hand of Père Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), on 459 leaves (plus blanks). c.1643-5.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 36. Edited from this MS in Jacquot & Jones (1973); English translation by Jones published as Thomas White's De Mundo Examined (Bradford, 1976). Discussed earlier by Jean Jacquot in ‘Notes on an Unpublished Work of Thomas Hobbes’, Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, 9 (1952), 188-95.
Tractatus opticus
An untitled treatise in Latin, a modified and expanded version of the Tractatus opticus published in 1644 (see HbT 39). Unpublished complete.
*HbT 91
Copy, complete with diagrams, in the hand of the ‘Parisian scribe’, with possibly Hobbes's autograph corrections, revisions and marginal annotations, on 74 folio leaves.
In: the MS described under HbT 41. c.1640s.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 42. Extracts edited from this MS in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix II, pp. 211-26. Discussed in Jean Bernhardt, ‘La polémique de Hobbes contre la Dioptrique de Descartes dans le Tractatus Opticus II (1644)’, Revue internationale de philosophie, 129 (1979), 432-42, and in Raylor, EMS 12, with a facsimile of f. 201r on p. 202.
Viète, François. Harmonicon coeleste
Unpublished.
*HbT 92
Copy of part of Vieta's treatise, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams added in Hobbes's hand. c.1640s.
In: A volume of papers of John Pell.
Discussed, with a facsimile of p. 31v, in Noel Malcolm, ‘Hobbes, the Latin Optical Manuscript, and the Parisian Scribe’, EMS, 12 (2005). 210-32 (p. 212).
Warner, Walter. De tactionibus
Unpublished treatise on geometry.
*HbT 93
Copy of the treatise by Walter Warner (c.1558-1643), mathematician and natural philosopher, in the hand of the Cavendishes' chaplain Robert Payne (1596-1651), with diagrams, on 21 folio pages. Mid-17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 53.
Letters
Letter(s)
HbT 94
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Christina Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (accompanying a draft of a dedication to her husband), from London, 6[/16] November 1628. c.1628.
In: A duodecimo volume of copies of letters by various correspondents to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, manuscript collector, copied by him while at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 leaves. c.1633-42.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 291-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 6, Letter 2.
HbT 95
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Christina Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (accompanying a draft of a dedication to her husband), from London, 6[/16] November 1628. c.1628.
In: An octavo volume comprising two letters and a Latin tract, 82 leaves.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 291-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 6, Letter 2.
HbT 96
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, of a letter by Hobbes, ‘to my Mr.’ [Sir Gervase Clifton], [from Paris], c.5/15 March 1629/30. 1630.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Sum Ed: Umfrevile Janrio 1727’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.
Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 451. Reprinted in de Beer, pp. 199-200.
*HbT 97
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, 19/29 April 1630. 1630.
Edited in de Beer, pp. 200-1. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 10-11, Letter 4.
*HbT 98
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Geneva, 10/20 May 1630. 1630.
Edited in de Beer, pp. 202-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 13, Letter 5.
*HbT 99
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 30 June/10 July 1630. 1630.
Edited in de Beer, pp. 203-4. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 15, Letter 6.
*HbT 100
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 25 July/4 August 1630. 1630.
Edited in de Beer, pp. 204-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 16, Letter 7.
*HbT 101
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Hardwick, 2/12 November 1630. 1630.
Edited in de Beer, p. 205. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 17, Letter 8.
*HbT 102
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase clifton, from Loughborough, 23 November/3 December 1632. 1632.
Substantially edited in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 401. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 18, Letter 9.
*HbT 103
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from London, 26 January[/5 February] 1633/4. 1634.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 124. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 19-20, Letter 10.
*HbT 104
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from London, 27 March[/6 April] 1634. 1634.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 21, Letter 11.
*HbT 105
A letter (autograph?) by Hobbes, to an unidentified friend in England, from Paris, 21/31 October 1634. 1634.
Once belonging to Dr William Standfast, rector of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.
Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. X. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 452-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 22-3, Letter 12.
*HbT 106
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 20/30 January 1634/5. 1635.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 25, Letter 13.
*HbT 107
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 21 April/1 May 1635. 1635.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 26, Letter 14.
*HbT 108
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, [to the Earl of Newcastle]. from Paris, 15/25 August 1635. 1635.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 28-9. Letter 16.
HbT 109
Letter (autograph?) by Hobbes, to Mr [?George] Glen, from Florence, 6/16 April 1636. 1636.
Once belonging to Dr William Standfast, rector of Clifton, Nottinghamshire.
Edited in F. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, 2 vols (London, 1732-5), I, Book 6, No. XI. Reprinted in Molesworth, English, VII, 454-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 30-1, Letter 17.
*HbT 110
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to the Earl of Newcastle, from Paris, 13/23 June 1636. 1636.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, portland II (1893), p. 128. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 32-3, Letter 18.
*HbT 111
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Paris, 29 July/8 August 1636. 1636.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), pp. 128-9. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 33-4, Letter 19.
*HbT 112
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 16[/26] October 1636. 1636.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), pp. 129-30. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 37-8, Letter 21.
*HbT 113
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 25 October/[5 November] 1636. 1636.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 130. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 39, Letter 22.
*HbT 114
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, from Byfleet, 25 December 1636/[4 January 1637]. 1637.
In: the MS described under HbT 55.
Substantially edited in HMC, Portland II (1893), p. 130. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 41, Letter 24.
HbT 115
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Charles Cavendish, from Chatsworth, 22 August/[1 September] 1638 1638.
In: the MS described under HbT 95.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 294-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 52-3, Letter 28.
HbT 116
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, to Charles Cavendish, from Chatsworth, 22 August/[1 September] 1638 1638.
In: the MS described under HbT 94. c.1633-42.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 294-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 52-3, Letter 28.
*HbT 117
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Charles Cavendish, from Paris, 29 January/8 February 1640/1. 1641.
In: the MS described under HbT 41. c.1640s.
Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 455-62, and in Mersenne, Correspondance, X (1967), 501-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 80-5, Letter 31.
Facsimiles of f. 291r in Isographie des hommes célèbres ou collection de fac-simile de lettres autographes et de signatures, 3 vols (Paris, 1828-30), Vol. II; of f. 292v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 36; and of f. 293v in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXVI.
*HbT 118
Letter in Latin, in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph corrections and signed by Hobbes, to Mersenne for Descartes, from Paris, [20/]30 March 1640/1. 1641.
In: A composite volume of correspondence of Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), natural philosopher, assembled by his biographer Hilarion de Coste.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 153-9. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 102-13, Letter 34, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 6206, ff. 1r-4v.
*HbT 119
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to John, first Viscount Scudamore, from Paris, 2/12 April 1641. 1641.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers relating to John, first Lord Scudamore (1619-71).
Volume IV of the Scudamore Papers of Hom-Lacy and Ballingham, Herefordshire.
Edited in Perez Zagorin, ‘Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640. An Unpublished Letter’, Historical Journal, 21 (1978), 156-60. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 114-15, Letter 35.
*HbT 120
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to the Earl of Devonshire, from Paris, [1/]11 June 1641. 1641.
Later in the collection of William and Thomas Bateman, of Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Derbyshire. Sotheby's, 3 June 1893 (Bateman sale), lot 143, to Pearson.
Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 486.
*HbT 121
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Devonshire, from Paris, 23 July/2 August 1641. 1641.
Sotheby's, 9 May 1840 (Thomas Lloyd sale), lot 95, to Thorpe. Owned by Sir William Molesworth, Bt (1810-55) and/or his sister, Mary Ford (née Molesworth, 1816-1910), of Pencarrow, Cornwall. Sotheby's, 8 December 1999 (Pencarrow sale), lot 32, to Quaritch, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.
Unfolding facsimile in Molesworth, English, I, after p.v. Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 302-3 (erroneously citing the source as British Library, Harley MS 6796). Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 120-1, letter 37.
*HbT 122
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Edmund Waller, from Rouen, [29 July/]8 August 1645. 1645.
Later owned by Major W.R. Waller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995, lot 106, to Dr Schram. Christie's, 3 July 2007 (Dr Albin Schram sale), lot 508. Facsimiles in both sale catalogues.
Edited in Philip R. Wikelund, ‘“Thus I passe my time in this place”: An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes’, ELN, 6 (1968-9), 263-8. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 124, Letter 39.
HbT 123
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from Paris, [6/]16 May 1646. 1646.
In:
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 573(bis)-5(bis), and in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 67-8; in Robertson, pp. 304-5; and in Mersenne, XIV (1980), 280-1. Malcolm, I, 125-7, Letter 40, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin, pp. 300-1.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 79v-80r.
HbT 124
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Sorbière, from Paris, 22 May/1 June 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 68-70; in Robertson, pp. 306-7; and in Mersenne, Correspondance, XIV (1980), 303-4. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 131-3, Letter 42, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin, pp. 302-3.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 80v-1r.
HbT 125
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Sorbière, from St Germain, [24 September/]4 October 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 193-4; in Robertson, pp. 307-8; and in Mersenne, Correspondance, XIV (1980), 504. Malcolm, I, 138-40, Letter 45, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, pp. 304-5.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 84v-5r.
HbT 126
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Sorbière, from St Germain, [12/] 22 October 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 195-6; in Robertson, pp. 309-10; and in Mersenne, Correspondance, XIV (1980), 558. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 141-4, Letter 46, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin, pp. 305-6.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 85v-6r.
HbT 127
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from Paris, [1/]11 November 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Tönnies, Sorbière, p. 196; in Robertson, p. 310; in Mersenne, Correspondance, XIV (1980), 603. Malcolm, I, 146-7, Letter 48, with English translation. English translation (with date erroneously given as 3 November) also in Warrender, pp. 307-8.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 87v.
HbT 128
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Sorbière, from Paris, [18/]28 February 1646/7. 1647.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, p. 197; in Robertson, pp. 310-11. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 152-3, Letter 50, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin, pp. 308-9.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 88v-9r.
HbT 129
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from Paris, [12/]22 March 1646/7. 1647.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 199-200; in Robertson, pp. 312-14. Malcolm, I, 155-9, Letter 52, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin , pp. 310-12.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 91r-v.
HbT 130
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from St Germain, [17/]27 November 1647. 1647.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 206-7; in Robertson, pp. 314-15, and in Mersenne, Correspondance, XV (1983), 552-3. Malcolm, I, 163-4, Letter 56, with English translation. Translation also in Warrender, De Cive: Latin, pp. 314-15.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 93v.
HbT 131
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Mersenne, from St Germain, [7/]17 February 1647/8. 1648.
In: the MS described under HbT 118.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 172-4; in Mersenne, Correspondance, XVI, 107-10. Malcolm, I, 165-6, Letter 57, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 6206, ff. 143r-4v.
*HbT 132
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to the Earl of Devonshire, from St Germain, 2/12 May 1648. 1648.
Sotheby's, 16 December 1824, lot 142, to Triphook. Puttick and Simpson's, 2 March 1870 (Jacob Henry Burn sale), lot 212, to Addington. Sotheby's, 24 April 1876 (Addington sale), lot 170, to Goupil. Then in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, 13 December 1917 (Morrison sale), lot 512, to Captain Lindsay.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 169-71, Letter 58. Facsimile in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, II (1885), Plate 89, facing p. 296.
*HbT 133
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in French, to Marin Mersenne, from St Germain, [15/]25 May 1648.
Sotheby's, 17 March 1875, lot 83, to Naylor. 1648.
In: A file of miscellaneous autograph signatures.
Facsimile in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 471 (1925), item 2835, Plate XVII, opposite p. 136. Edited from this reproduction and discussed in Harcourt Browne, ‘The Mersenne Correspondence: A Lost Letter by Thomas Hobbes’, Isis, 34 (1942-3), 311-12. Also discussed in I. Bernard Cohen, ‘A Lost Letter from Hobbes to Mersenne Found’, HLB, 1 (1947), 112-13. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 172-3, Letter 59, with English translation.
*HbT 134
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, In French, to Mersenne, from St Germain, [9/]19 June 1648. 1648.
In: the MS described under HbT 118.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 174-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 173-5, Letter 60, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 6206, f. 73r.
HbT 135
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from Paris, [4/]14 June 1649. 1649.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 571(bis)-2(bis); in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 207-8; and in Robertson, p. 315. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 176-7, Letter 61, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 100r.
*HbT 136
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in Latin, to Pierre Gassendi, from Paris, [12/]22 September 1649. 1649.
In:
Edited (with date erroneously given as 21 September) in Gassendi, Opera omnia (Lyons, 1658), VI, p. 522A. Reprinted in Molesworth, Latin, V, 307. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 178-9, Letter 62, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 1637, ff. 189r-90v.
*HbT 137
Fragment of an autograph letter by Hobbes, to Sir Charles Cavendish, [from Paris], [late September 1649]. 1649.
In: the MS described under HbT 16.
Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 776, Letter 62A.
*HbT 138
Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in French, to Pierre Gassendi, from London, 10/20 July 1654. 1654.
Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 184-5, Letter 66.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Gratz Collection, Authors, Case 10, Box 30, [unnumbered item].
HbT 139
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from London 29 December[/8 January] 1656/7. 1657.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 575-1(bis); in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 209-10. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 427-30, Letter 112, with English translation. English translation also inn Warrender, De Cive: Latin , p. 315.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 136v-7r.
HbT 140
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from London, 6[/16] February 1656/7. 1657.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 210-12. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 442-6, letter 117, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 140r-1v.
HbT 141
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from London, 10[/20] February 1656/7. 1657.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 212-13. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 447-8, Letter 118, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 141v.
HbT 142
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, [from London?], 23 January[/2 February] 1659/60. 1660.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 572(bis)-3(bis); in Tönnies, Sorbière, p. 213. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 513-14, Letter 140, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 149r.
HbT 143
Copy.of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from London, 3[/13] March 1661/2. 1662.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 590-1; in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 213-14. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 525-6, Letter 146, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, f. 158v.
HbT 144
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 7[/17] September 1663. 1663.
In: A folio composite volume of letters to John Aubrey, ii + 357 leaves.
Edited in Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 309-10. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 555, Letter 153.
HbT 145
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 7[/17] September 1663. c.1663.
In: A quarto volume of copies of correspondence of John Aubrey, FRS (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, transcribed from originals in the Bodleian Library. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 153.
HbT 146
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from Hardwick, 30 November[/10 December] 1663. 1663.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Sorbière, Illustrium (1669), pp. 575(bis)-7(bis); in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 216-17. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 576-8, Letter 160, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 177r-8r.
HbT 147
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, 19[/29] December 1663. 1663.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 215-16. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 578-84, Letter 161, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 162v-4r.
HbT 148
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in Latin, to Samuel-Joseph Sorbière, from London, 7[/17] March 1663[/4]. 1664.
In: the MS described under HbT 123.
Edited in Tönnies, Sorbière, pp. 214-15. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 596-9, Letter 164, with English translation.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin 10352, Vol. II, ff. 161v-2r.
HbT 149
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, 30 June/[10 July] 1664. 1664.
In: the MS described under HbT 144.
Edited (with the date erroneously given as 1661) in Tönnies, Analekten, p. 312. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 620-1, Letter 167.
HbT 150
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from London, 30 July[/10 July] 1664. c.1664.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 167.
*HbT 151
Letter by Hobbes, in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon and signed by Hobbes, to Joseph Williamson, from Latimers, 9[/19] June 1667. 1667.
Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 692, Letter 178.
HbT 152
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to Joseph Williamson, 30 June[/10 July] 1668. 1668.
Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 699, letter 181.
HbT 153
Copy of a letter by Hobbes, in an unidentified hand, to Mr Brooke, from Chatsworth, 20[/30] October 1668, and read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1668. 1668.
Edited (with the addressee erroneously given as Mr Beale) in Molesworth, English, VII, 463-4. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 701-2, Letter 183.
HbT 154
Formal copy of Hobbes's letter to Mr Brooke, from Chatsworth, 20[/30] October 1668, which was read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1668. 1668.
In: MS.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 183.
*HbT 155
Autograph (?) letter signed by Hobbes, to the Rt Hon. Edward Howard, from Chatsworth, 24 October[/3 November] 1668. 1668.
Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton muniments at Arley Hall, Cheshire (dispersed in 1937).
Edited in Molesworth English, IV, 458-60. Summarized in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291. A slightly abbreviated version, dated 6 November 1668, was printed in Edward Howard, The British Princes (London, 1669), sig. a7v-a8r. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 704-5, Letter 184.
HbT 156
Letter by Hobbes, in Latin, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to Cosimo de' Medici, from London, 6[/16] August 1669. 1669.
Listed by E. G. Jacoby in Tönnies, Studien, p. 373. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 710-11, Letter 187, with English translation. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 710-11, Letter 187, with English translation.
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, MS Gal. 286, ff. 50r, 52v.
HbT 157
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, 26 November[/16 December] 1672. 1672.
Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 465-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 725-6, Letter 191.
HbT 158
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, of a letter by Hobbes, to Josias Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, from London, 1[/11] February 1672/3. 1673.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited from this MS in Clark, I, 377-8. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 729, Letter 193.
HbT 159
Copy of Hobbes's letter to Josias Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, from London, 1[/11] February 1672/3. c.1673.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 193.
HbT 160
Copy, in the hand of Sir George Ent, of Hobbes's letter to Josias Pullen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, from London, 1[/11] February 1672/3. c.1673.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth. Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226. c.1674-80.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 193.
HbT 161
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674[/5]. 1675.
In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence of Sir William Petty, in various hands, iv + 310 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.
Formerly Petty Papers, Vol. 6, 1st and 2nd series.
Cited in Quentin Skinner, ‘Thomas Hobbes and the Nature of the Early Royal Society’, Historical Journal, 12 (1969), 217-39 (pp. 217-19). Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 751-2, Letter 198.
HbT 162
Copy, in Aubrey's hand, of Hobbes's letter to him, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674/5. c.1675.
In: the MS described under HbT 144.
Edited from this MS Tönnies, Analekten, pp. 313-14. Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 198.
HbT 163
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 24 February[/16 March] 1674/5. c.1675.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 198.
HbT 164
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, including as an enclosure ‘To find a straight line equall to halfe a quarter of a Circle’, to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, from Chatsworth, 14[/24] August 1677. 1677.
In: A quarto composite volume of letters, in various hands, addressed chiefly to John Ellis (1642/6-1738), secretary of state.
Edited in George A. Aitken, ‘An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes’, The Academy, 27 (1885), 46 (and see also p. 80). Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 756-8, Letter 200.
*HbT 165
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 5[/15] March 1677/8. 1678.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited in Clark, I, 378-9. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 766-7, Letter 202.
HbT 166
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Hardwick, 5[/15] March 1677/8. c.1678.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 202.
HbT 167
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to William Crook, bookseller, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679. 1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited in Clark, I, 379. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 769, Letter 204.
HbT 168
Copy of Hobbes's letter to William Crook, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679. c.1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 204.
HbT 169
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679. 1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited in Clark, I, 380. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 770, Letter 205.
HbT 170
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 25 March[/4 April] 1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 205.
HbT 171
Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679. 1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Edited in Clark, I, 380-1. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 772-3, Letter 208.
HbT 172
Copy, in John Aubrey's hand, of Hobbes's letter to him, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679, omitting the first paragraph. c.1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 6. c.1680-1.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 209.
HbT 173
Copy of Hobbes's letter to John Aubrey, from Chatsworth, 18[/28] August 1679. c.1679.
In: the MS described under HbT 145. Early 19th century.
Recorded in Malcolm, Correspondence, Letter 209.
Documents
Document(s)
*HbT 174
Autograph signature of Hobbes as witness to a bond, for the sum of £350 out of a total sum of £600, owed to Edmond Skory, drawn up by the London scrivener Leonard Willworth, signed by Sir William Cavendish, 4 March 1617/18.
Possibly the earliest known example of Hobbes's hand. 1618.
In: A group of papers relating to Gilbert Talbot, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury (1553-1616).
Among the archives of the Bagot family, of Blithfield Hall.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 4038/I/33, [unnumbered item].
HbT 175
A reply written in 1623 to a petition of grievances by colonists of the Somer Islands, a reply which (according to Company records) ‘Mr Deputy [viz. John Ferrar] & Mr Hobbs’ were nominated to make on behalf of the Virginia Company, the MS in an unidentified hand and unsigned. Among the Ferrar papers. 1623.
This MS discussed in Noel Malcolm, ‘Hobbes, Sandys, and the Virginia Company’, Historical Journal, 24 (1981), 297-321, as representing, ‘in part at least, the earliest surviving work of Thomas Hobbes’.
HbT 176
Copy, in Birch's hand, of a petition by Hobbes to King Charles II, referring to Hobbe's ‘extreme age’. c.1670s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, compiled, and the majority copied, by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 279 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 471-2. Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 774-5, Letter 210.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Hobbes
Extracts
HbT 177
Extracts.
In: A duodecimo memorandum book, compiled by William Harris, MA, Master of Winchester School, 64 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
HbT 178
Extracts, including references on pp. 26 and 34.
In: A folio commonplace book of extracts largely from religious works, under headings, in English and Latin, in a single cursive mixed hand, c.580 pages, in old boards. c.1680.
HbT 179
Extracts at ff. 66r-71v, headed ‘Excerpta de origine boni et mali ex doctrina Hobbesii ubi de origine sociatum’.