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On ‘Religio Medici’

[1st unauthorised edition, 1642 (facsimile: ed. W.A. Greenhill, 1883). 2nd authorised edition, 1643 (facsimile: Scolar Press, 1970); edited by Greenhill (
W1
) and, with full
apparatus criticus
, by Vittoria Sanna (Cagliari, 1958; followed by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1968). The reconstructed text by Jean-Jacques Denonain (with
apparatus criticus
, Cambridge, 1953; without it, 1963) incorporates several readings from the extant manuscripts, none authoritative.
M
(followed by R) and
E
are based on 1643; so is the present edition. Other editions of
Religio Medici
include Frank L. Huntley’s (1968) and James Winny’s (Cambridge, 1963); but the latter provides an unreliable text and displays, in both the introduction and notes, a positive dislike of Browne. On translations, see above,
p. 488, note 9
.

The eight extant manuscripts of
Religio Medici
are named by
M
, p. xii, and
K
, I, 5–6. The manuscript at Pembroke College, Oxford, has been edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (P), who dates it much earlier than Frank L. Huntley does (
MP
, LVII [1959], 58–60).

In addition to the studies listed below, see
§§18
,
42
,
53
,
66
,
93
,
131
,
137
176
,
187
,
190
,
197–9
,
206
,
213
, etc.]

§244. Abramson, Ernst: ‘The Maid of Germany’,
TLS
, 24 July 1948 (p. 415). See also C.H. Wilkinson, ibid., 21 August 1948 (p. 471). Cf. above, p. 98, note 186.
§245. Bensly, Edward: ‘A Spanish Quotation in
Religio Medici’, N&Q
, 12th series, XI (1922), 347. See above, p. 152, note 95.
§246. Bottrall, Margaret: ‘Browne’s
Religio Medici
’, in her
Every Man a Phoenix: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
(1958) Ch. III.
§247. Cook, Elizabeth: ‘The First Edition of
Religio Medici’, Harvard Library Bulletin
, II (1948), 22–31; cf. Sir Geoffrey Keynes,
TLS
, 18 April 1952 (p. 265). Discusses the two unauthorised issues of 1642.
§248. Croll, Morris W.: ‘The Baroque Style in Prose’, as above (§146), Ch. V; repr. in §151. Highly recommended.
§249. Denonain, J.-J.: ‘Les Problèmes de l’honnête homme vers 1635:
Religio Medici
et les
Conférences
du Bureau d’Adresse’,
Etudes Anglais
, XVIII (1965), 235–7.
§250. Digby, Sir Kenelm:
Observations upon Religio Medici
(1643). Usually bound with
Religio Medici
from 1659. Cf. §343.
§251. Edelstein, Ludwig: ‘The Golden Chain of Homer’, in
Studies in Intellectual History
, by G.G. Boas
et al
. (Baltimore, 1953), pp. 48–66. The background to Browne’s reference (above, p. 84, note 116). Cf. next entry.
§252. ‘Eirionnach’: ‘Aurea Catena Homeri’,
N&Q
, 2nd Series, III (1857), 63–5, 81–4, 104–7, and XII (1861), 161–3, 181–3. Cf. previous entry.
§253. Endicott, N.J.: ‘Some Aspects of Self-Revelation and Self-Portraiture in
Religio Medici
’, in
Essays in English Literature
, ed. Millar MacLure and F.W. Watt (Toronto, 1964), pp. 85–102.
§254. Howell, A.C.: ‘A Doctor Looks at Religion’,
The University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin
, XXXIV (1954), ii, 45–69.
§255. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘The Publication and Immediate Reception of
Religio Medici’, Library Quarterly
, XXV (1955), 203–18; parly reprinted in §198 (Ch. VII and IX).
§256. Hutchinson, F.E.: ‘
Religio Medici
’,
Theology
, L (1947), 423–6. An appreciation.
§257. Keck, Thomas:
Annotations upon Religio Medici
, first appended to the ‘Fourth’ edition of
Religio Medici
(1656), pp. 175–297.
§258. Low, Anthony: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Social Abacus’,
N&Q
, new series, XV (1968), 98–9. Cf. above, p. 134, note 7.
§259. Mackenzie, Norman: ‘The Concept of Baroque and its Relation to Sir Thomas Browne’s
Religio Medici
and
Urn Burial
’,
ESA
, X (1967), 147–66. Cf. §305.
§260. Mulder, John R.: ‘
Religio Medici
: Aristotle
versus
Moses’, as above (§84), pp. 54–62. Highly recommended.
§261. Patrides, C.A.: ‘Psychopannychism in Renaissance Europe’,
SP
, LX (1963), 227–9. Cf. §§18, 272.
§262. Patrides, C.A.: ‘ “The Beast with Many Heads”: Renaissance Views on the Multitude’,
Shakespeare Quarterly
, XVI (1965), 241–6. Cf. above,
p. 134, note 5
.
§263. Patrides, C.A.: ‘The Salvation of Satan’,
JHI
, XXVIII (1967), 467-478. Cf. above, p. 67, note 32.
§264. Pritchard, Allan: ‘Wither’s
Motto
and Browne’s
Religio Medici’, PQ
, XL (1961), 302–7. On the possible influence of Wither’s ‘crude and naive’ poem (1621).
§265. Ross, Alexander:
Medicus Medicatus: or the Physicians Religion cured, by a lenitive or gentle potion. With some Animadversions upon Sir Kenelme Digbie’s Observations on Religio Medici
(1645). Cf. §343.
§266. Schneck, Jerome M.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne,
Religio Medici
, and the History of Psychiatry’,
American Journal of Psychiatry
, CXIV (1958), 657–60.
§267. Schonack, Wilhelm:
Sir Thomas Brownes ‘Religio Medici’: Ein ver-schollenes Denkmal des englischen Deismus
(Tübingen, 1911).
§268. Shaaber, M.A.: ‘A Crux in
Religio Medici
’,
ELN
, III (1966), 263–5. Cf. above, p. 130, note 343.
§269. Sloane, Cecile A.: ‘Imagery of Conflict in
Religio Medici
’,
ELN
, VIII (1971), 260–62.
§270. Ward, H.G.: ‘Joachim du Bellay and Sir Thomas Browne’,
RES
, V (1929), 59–60. See above, p. 139, note 30.
5271. Webber, Joan: ‘Sir Thomas Browne: Art as Recreation’, as above (5169) Ch. VI. Highly recommended.
§272. Williamson, George: ‘Milton and the Mortalist Heresy’, as above (§131), Ch. VII. Cf. Nathaniel H. Henry, ‘Milton and Hobbes: Mortalism and the Intermediate State’,
SP
, XLVIII (1951), 234–49, as well as §§18, 261. The intellectual context of Browne’s reference (above, p. 67, note 31).

On ‘Pseudodoxia Epidemica’

[1st edition, 1646 (facsimile: Scolar Press, with a textual preface by T.-L. Pebworth, 1972). Revised editions: 2nd, 1650; 3rd and 4th, 1658; 5th, 1659; and 6th, 1672. The present edition reproduces the text of 1650. On translations, see above, p. 491, note 16. A critical text with introduction and commentary is now being prepared for the Clarendon Press by Robin Robbins.

In addition to the studies listed below, see
§§20
,
43
,
59
,
176
,
181
,
187
,
190
,
198
,
206
,
210
,
215
,
241
,
330
, etc.]

§273. Bodemer, Charles W.: ‘Embryological Thought in Seventeenth Century England’, in Bodemer and L.S. King,
Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England
(Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 3–25.
5274. Cawley, Robert R.: ‘The Timeliness of
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
’, in
Studies
(as above, §181), pp. 1–40.
§275. Chalmers, Gordon K.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne, True Scientist’,
Osiris
, II (1936), 28–79. Highly recommended.
§276. Chalmers, Gordon K.: ‘The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England’,
Philosophy of Science
, IV (1937), 75–95.
§277. Chalmers, Gordon K.: ‘Three Terms of the Corpuscularian Philosophy’,
MP
, XXXIII (1936), 243–60. Cf. §54.
§278. Colie, Rosalie L.: ‘Dean Wren’s Marginalia and Early Science at Oxford’,
Bodleian Library Record
, VI (1960), 541–51.
§279. Debus, Allen G.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Study of Colour Indicators’,
Ambix
, X (1962), 29–36.
§280. Gordon, George: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
The Lives of Authors
(1950), pp. 101–10.
§281. Guerlac, Henry: ‘The Poet’s Nitre’,
Isis
, XLV (1954), 243–55. On Browne’s ‘earliest complete statement in English of the gunpowder theory’ (
Pseud
., II, 5).
§282. Howell, Almonte C.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and 17th Century Scientific Thought’,
SP
, XXII (1925), 61–80.
§283. L’Estrange, Sir Hamon:
Observations on Pseudodoxia Epidemica
. Still in manuscript; summarised in
W
, II, 173–5.
§284. Merton, E.S.: ‘Old and New Physiology in Sir Thomas Browne: Digestion and Some Other Functions’,
Isis
, LVII (1966), 249–59. On
Pseud
., III, 21–2.
§285. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne as Zoologist’,
Osiris
, IX (1950), 413–34.
§286. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Embryological Theory’,
JHM
, V (1950), 416–21.
§287. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Scientific Quest’,
JHM
, III (1948), 214–28; repr. in §206 (Ch. II). Highly recommended.
§288. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Theories of Respiration and Combustion’,
Osiris
, X (1952), 206–23.
§289. Merton, E.S.: ‘The Botany of Sir Thomas Browne’,
Isis
, XLVII (1956), 161–71.
§290. Oppenheimer, Jane M.: ‘John Hunter, Sir Thomas Browne and the Experimental Method’,
BHM
, XXI (1947), 17–32. Unfairly contrasted to Hunter in the eighteenth century, Browne is inevitably found wanting as a scientist.
§291. Patrides, C.A.: ‘Renaissance Ideas on Man’s Upright Form’,
JHI
, XIX (1958), 256–8. See above, pp. 223 ff.
§292. Patrides, C.A.: ‘The Cessation of the Oracles: The History of a Legend’,
MLR
, LX (1965), 500–507. Cf. above, p. 97, note 176, and pp. 253 ff.
§293. Robinson, John:
A Calm Ventilation of Pseudodoxia Epidemica
, appended to his
Endoxa, or, Some probable Inquiries into Truth
(1658), pp. 105–51; translated by the author from his own Latin treatise (1656).
§294. Ross, Alexander:
Arcana Microcosmi: or, The Hid Secrets of Man’s Body disclosed;… with a Refutation of Doctor Browns Vulgar Errors, and the Ancient Opinions vindicated
(1651). Especially pp. 143 ff.
§295. South, Malcolm H.: ‘A Note on Spenser and Sir Thomas Browne’,
MLR
, LXII (1967), 14–16.

On ‘Hydriotaphia’ and ‘The Garden of Cyrus’

[1st edition of the two works, 1658 (facsimile: Noel Douglas Replicas, 1927). Edited by Greenhill (G2), by Huntley (H), and by John Carter (with full
apparatus criticus
, 1932; without it, Cambridge, 1958; followed by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1968). M (followed by R) and E are based on 1658; so is the pressent edition. The first translation of the two works was into Dutch, in 1688.

In addition to the studies listed below, see §§23, 176, 187, 190, 198, 206, 213, 289, etc.]

§296. Barnes, William H.: ‘Browne’s
Hydriotaphia
with a Reference to Adipocere’,
Isis
, XX (1933), 337–43. Cf. above, p. 295, note 79.
§297. Cline, James M.: ‘
Hydriotaphia
’, in
Five Studies in Literature
, ‘University of California Publications in English’, VIII (1940), 73–100. Highly recommended.
§298. Evans, Sir John (ed.):
Hydriotaphia
(1893).
§299. Finch, Jeremiah S.: ‘Early Drafts of
The Garden of Cyrus’, PMLA
, LV (1940), 742–7.
§300. Finch, Jeremiah S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Quincunx’,
SP
, XXXVII (1940), 274–82.
§301. Grundy, Dominick: ‘Skepticism in Two Essays by Montaigne and Sir Thomas Browne’,
JHI
, XXXIV (1973), 529–42. Juxtaposes
De la vanité and Hydriotraphia
.
§302. Heideman, Margaret A.: ‘
Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus
: A Paradox and a Cosmic Vision’,
UTQ
, XIX (1950), 235–46. Highly recommended.
§303. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne: The Relationship of the
Urn Burial
and
The Garden of Cyrus’, SP
, LIII (1956), 204–19; revised in §198 (Ch. XIII); repr. in §151. Highly recommended.
§304. Jaffé, Michael: ‘Sir Thomas Browne at Midnight’,
CJ
, II (1949), 752–7.
§305. Mackenzie, Norman: ‘Sir Thomas Browne as a Man of Learning: A Discussion of
Urn Burial
and
The Garden of Cyrus
’,
ESA
, X (1967), 67–86. Highly recommended. Cf. §259.
§306. Pande, R.P.:
Sir Thomas Browne, with a detailed study and text of ‘Urn Burial’
(Allahabad etc., 1963).
§307. Parker, Edward L.: ‘The Cursus in Sir Thomas Browne’,
PMLA
, LIII (1938), 1037–53. Cf. §229.
§308. Patrides, C.A.: ‘The Numerological Approach to Cosmic Order during the English Renaissance’,
Isis
, XLIX (1958), 391–7.
§309. Williamson, George: ‘The Purple of
Urn Burial
’,
MP
, LXII (1964), 110–17.

On ‘A Letter to a Friend’, ‘Christian Morals’, the letters, and the minor works

[The present edition reproduces
A Letter to a Friend
from the 1st (posthumous)
edition of 1690 (facsimile: Haslewood Press, 1924);
Christian Morals
(from the 1st (posthumous) edition of 1716 (ed. John Jeffery); and ‘On Dreams’ from the text transcribed by
K
. The first two are also edited by Greenhill (
G1
); and all three in
E
. For the letters, see
K
, vol. IV: and for the minor works both English and Latin:
K
, vol. III.

In addition to the studies listed below, see
§§176
,
187
,
190
,
198
,
334
, etc.]

§310. Ashton, Arthur.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne
en famille’, The English Review
, XLIII (1926), 693–707, and XLIV (1927), 59–68.
§311. Endicott, N.J.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne, Montpellier, and the Trac “Of Languages” ’,
TLS
, 24 August 1962 (p. 645).
§312. Endicott, N.J.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s
Letter to a Friend
’,
UTQ
XXXVI (1966), 68–86. Cf. §315.
§313. Harper, George M.: ‘The Family Correspondence of Sir Thoma Browne’, in his
Literary Appreciations
(Indianapolis, 1937), pp. 46–69
§314. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘Robert Loveday: Commonwealth Man o Letters’,
RES
, new series, II (1951), 262–7. On the subject of
A Letter to a Friend
.
§315. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘The Occasion and Date of Sir Thomas Browne’s
A Letter to a Friend
’,
MP
, XLVIII (1951), 157–71; revised in §198 (Ch. XI). See also N.J. Endicott’s ‘Browne’s
A Letter to a Friend’ TLS
, 15 September 1966 (p. 868), and Huntley’s rejoinder, 9 February 1967 (p. 116); also Karl J. Höltgen, 20 October 1966 (p. 966) and 25 June 1970 (p. 687).
§316. Kane, Robert J.: ‘James Crossley, Sir Thomas Browne, and the
Fragment on Mummies
’, RES, IX (1933), 266–74. Argues that the
Fragment
is a forgery.
§317. Kellett, C.E.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Disease called the Morgellons’, Annals of Medical History, n.s., VII (1935), 467–79. Se above, p. 397, note 39.
§318. Löffler, Arno: ‘Sir Thomas Browne at Work: An Unpublishec Early Section of
Christian Morals’, N&Q
, n.s., XX (1973), 391–2 Provides an addition to Part II, Sect. 5.
§319. Roberts, S.C. (ed.):
Christian Morals
(Cambridge, 1927). With Johnson’s
Life
.
§320. Seaton, Ethel:
Literary Relations of England and Scandinavia in the Seventeenth Century
(Oxford, 1935), 182–4. On Browne’s connections with Iceland.
§321. Wright, William A.: ‘The Great Antonio’,
N&Q
, 7th series, IV (1887), 386. See above, p. 391, note 2.

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