Fur-simile of the Title page of the Origirul MS (Harl. MSS. 6463.)
See Note at the end of the Preface.

Valerius Terminus

of the Interpretation of Nature
with the Annotations of

Hermes Stella.

A few fragm of f first booke; &

チ

1

1 The first chapt& entier, benches Of yendes and Iimitts of knowltager 2 It portion of the x14 chapter of the A

3 A small portion of

of the rock chapter bing an Indian wy giventorge A small portion of the && chapter bring this o yaw doy giventory & God I or chapter the afte

s. A small portion of that

Not chapters

bring a preface to of mward theuches of the hymd

Of

6. A small of the Guterpretacion
• A small portion of the nigth ch aphr

Jofthen

of knowledgen genrall A small portion of the 22 chap 2 Sig Ingrsion of copies.

The vit
I I portion of the

い

chap for Entrer.

#chappe

Azle Big ty chaphs & Entur

11 A mother portion los the ix & chapter

رچا

12 The Abridgut of the 12.13.14. 15. 16.17.

21. 22. 25.2

of ye first booke

or chapters

13. The first chapter of the a books of

Ame saune

argmnt wrytten in Lat ind

Separate

and destnied for to be haditiorlang and
not publike.
I Nome of
E Annotations of Shilla
are set down in these fragment.

Fac-simile of the writing on the Cover

I ft.26 +1603 $.B.45.
Libri dimidiu est, paga 34
Pagellaru mimeri veri

VALERIUS TERMINUS.

PREFACE

TO

VALERIUS TERMINUS.

BY ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS.

THE following fragments of a great work on the Interpretation of Nature were first published in Stephens's Letters and Remains [1734]. They consist partly of detached passages, and partly of an epitome of twelve chapters of the first book of the proposed work. The detached passages contain the first, sixth, and eighth chapters, and portions of the fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and sixteenth. The epitome contains an account of the contents of all the chapters from the twelfth to the twenty-sixth inclusive, omitting the twentieth, twenty-third, and twentyfourth. Thus the sixteenth chapter is mentioned both in the epitome and among the detached passages, and we are thus enabled to see that the two portions of the following tract belong to the same work, as it appears from both that the sixteenth chapter was to treat of the doctrine of idola.

It is impossible to ascertain the motive which determined Bacon to give to the supposed author the name of Valerius Terminus, or to his commentator, of whose