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— — 1 30 Catalogue. loj X 8J inches. They have not a blank leaf at the beginning, but have on the recto of a leaf after the title-page an extract from the minutes authorising the printing, followed by two leaves containing a list of the members of the Club ; the Bannatyne Club having one hundred members and the Maitland Club ninety. The foregoing differences make the preliminary leaves six instead of four as in the collation. The manuscript from which the work was published appears, from the following passage in the Memoirs (pp. 419, 420), to be the only one of Napier's papers which survives. Napier left a mass of papers, including his mathematical treatises and notes, all of which came into the possession of Robert as his father's literary executor. When the house of Napier of Culcreugh was burnt, these papers perished, with only two exceptions that I have been able to discover. The one is the manuscript treatise on Alchemy by Robert Napier himself; but the other is a far more valuable manuscript, being entitled, " The Baron of Merchiston, his booke of Arithmeticke, and Algebra ; for Mr Henrie Briggs, Professor of Geometric at Oxforde. " it is of great length, beautifully written in the hand of his son, who mentions the fact, that it is copied from such of his father's notes as the transcriber considered " orderlie sett doun." The treatise on Alchemy is elsewhere stated (pp. 236, 237) to be contained in a thin quarto volume closely written in the autograph of Robert Napier, bearing the title " Mysterii aurei velleris Revelatio ; seu analysis philosophica qua nucleus vera intentionis hermeticcs posteris Deum timentibus manifestatur. Authore R. N." and the motto " Orbis quicquid opum, vel kabet medicina salutis, Omne Leo Geminis suppeditare potest." In this connection the following entry may be mentioned which occurs in the sale catalogue of the first portion of the library of the late David Laing: " JLambye {/. B.) Revelation of the secret Spirit {Alckymie) translated by R. N. E. {Robert Napier Edinburgensis T) 1623." The work sold for ^^7, Libraries. Adv. Ed.; etc. 2s. 6d. I II.—Rabdologiae.
— ; 1; Catalogue, i 3 1 1 1.—Rabdologiae. I. Editions in Latin, Rabdologiae, | Sev Nvmerationis | Appendice de expeditissi-|simo Mvltiplicationis Quibus accessit Inventore loannejNepero, Barone Mer- 1 Per Virgulas | Libri Dvo : | Cum promptvario. | | & Arithmetic3e|Localis Liber vnvs.|Authore & Edinbvrgi,|Excudebat Andreas Hart, 1617.I chistonii, &c.|Scoto.| 12°. Size 5f X SJ inches. Hi', Title. ITi^, blank. 1l2i-ir4\ S pages, " Illustrissimo Viro Alexandra Setonio Fermelinoduni Comiti, Fyveei, &= Vrqvharti Domino. &'c. Supremo Regni Scotim Cancellario. S", sigati "loannes Neperus Merchistonii Bare." 114^, Verses, viz.: " Avthori Dignissimo." , 4 lines, unsigned; "Lectori Rabdologice." , 4 lines, signed " Patricivs Sandfvs" ; and " Ad Lectorem." , 6 lines, signed "Andreas Ivnivs." 115^-116', 3 pages, " Elenchvs Capitvm, et vsvvm totivs operis." 116^ two lines in centre of page. Ai'-Bg^, pp. 1-42, " Saidologia Liber Primvs De usu Virgvlarvm numeratricium in genere." Bio'-Dg^, pp. 43-90, " Rabdologits Liber Secvndvs De usu Virgularum Numeratricium in Geometricis &' Mechanicis officio Tabularum." Dlo'-ES", pp. 91-112, " De Expeditissimo Multiplicationis Promptvario Appendix", the "Prsefatio" occupying the first page. £9^-05^ pp. 113-1541 " Arithmetics Localis, qum in Scacchiis abaco exercetur, Liber unus.", the "Prsefatio " occupying the first two pages. G6 blank. K in six + A to F in twelves + G in six =84 leaves. Signatures. Paging. 12+154 numbered + 2=i68 pages. There are 4 folding plates to face pages loi, 105, 106, and 130, which, with those on pages 6, 7, 8, 94, and 95, are copperplate. Errors in Paging. None. In one copy belonging to the Edinburgh University Library the signature B5 is printed in error A5, but in their other copy it is correct. The word expeditissimo on the 5th and 6th lines in some copies correctly printed expeditis- 1 simo. of the title-page is Libraries. Adv. Ed.; Sig. Ed.; Un. Ed. (2); Un. Gl. (2); Brit. Mus, Lon.; Un. Col. Lon. ; Roy. Soc. Lon. ; Bodl. Oxf. (5); Un. Camb. ; Trin. Col. Camb. ; Trin. Col. Dub. ; Kon. Berlin ; Stadt. Breslau ; Un. Breslau Kon. Off. Dresden ; Un. Halle ; Un. Leiden ; K. Hof u. Staats. Miinchen Astor, New York ; Nat. Paris ; Un. Utrecht R 2 Rabdologiae
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To The Right Honourable FRANCIS BAR
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Page 64 SOME VERY REMARKABLE PROPOS
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Page 191 and 192: Summary of Catalogue. 167 In German
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