chapter it will be recalled that the numerical signatures very frequently

used in other books examined are the 33 (" Bacon ") and 66 (" Fra Baconi ") in the simple count, and the 111 (" Bacon ") of the Kaye count. They are also a feature of the Anatomy.
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First title-page : 66 roman and italic words not counting the date. There are 33 roman and italic letters in the three line§ immediately above the name " Democritas junior " and 33 in the next helow the name.
The last three lines of the printer's foot-note contain 49 roman letters, 7 itahc letters, and in figures 10— together 66.
First page of Democritus to the Reader contains 66 completed italic words.
First page of the First Partition: In the marginal notes are the following figures: 3.6.5.3.5.1.4.2.4, which added together make 33.
The first page of the Third Partition has 33 italic words in the margmal notes.
The last two pages of the work itself are 782 and 783. On page 782 the member and subsection are called 1 and 3, but should really be 2 and 5. This error appears to have been made intentionally, to make the large figures on these two pages 3.4.1.3.782.6.3.4.2.5.783. to add together to make 66.
In the two headings on these two pages there are 41 italic letters, and on the same line as the headings are figures — 3.4.1.3.3.4.2.5. — together 25. Add the above 41 letters, making 66.
On the last page (783) there are 208 roman words. Add the 79 italic letters to the addition of the page number 783=18 plus 79 makes 97, wMch deducted from 208 leaves 111.
There are six stars at the end, and then follow 27 large roman letters, making 33.
The Conclusion to the Reader commences by saying: " The last Section shall be mine, to cut the strings of Democritus visor, to unmaske and shew him as he is." And thoroughly he does try to shew us, by his Cipher signa- tures in these last seven pages, who he really was. The first page of the Con- clusion has 33 lines.
In the marginal notes there are 17 italic words and the figures 9.1.6. — equals 16, which added to the 17 make 33.
Page 2: In the margin are 42 roman letters and the figures 1.5.3. — .equal 9, which deducted leaves 33. If all the small itaUc letters ex- cepting " Fr. Bacon " are counted, there are 33. Result: "Fr. Bacon, 33." (" Anna] " is in a larger type, so must not be included.)
Page 3 : In the margin there are 33 italic letters.
Page 4 : The top group of marginal notes contains 87 letters =Fra'cis Bacon. The lower group of seven lines cqntains 66 letters.
Page 5 has only 17 italic letters and the figure 3, which would not give a signature. But going on the principle that the cipher would be on every page
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having marginal notes, the investigator added all the small italic marginal letters together, excepting the " Fr. Bacon"; the result was as follows: There are 321 small italic letters, 28 in figures, and there are 6 large, italic letters (the letter u in the fifth line of the first page and the word " annal " on the second).
321 less 28=293 less 6=287, thus leaving " Fr. Bacon, 287." If all the figures in the Couclusion to the Reader are added together, both in the text and the margins, the result is: 9.1.6.15.3.50.300.3.17.8.5.1620. — equals 66.
{Note. — The O's being nulls or non-significants are not counted.) If the little dashes (- -) like those in the third line of the first page
before the word " amphora " are counted, they will be found to total 33. {Note. — On the fourth page one is a dot, and so is not counted.) The Errata on the final page is well worth examination. The first re- markable circumstance about the 17 lines of Errata is that there are over 20 mistakes in them. In 14 cases the wrong line is given, in 4 the wrong page, 3 are out of their proper rotation of page nurdber, in 1 there is no altera- tion whatever, " transire " in the Errata being also " transire " in the book. In about 12 cases the alterations seem unnecessary; for instance:
" pulvinari " is altered to " pulvenari "
" pa " is altered to " pagi "
" ValentifJian " is altered to " Valentine "
Neither of these are altered iu the next edition, excepting that " pa " appears as " pag," then—
" infelicity " is altered to " infelicitie "
" Lewes " is altered to " Lues "
" Clitemnestra " is altered to " Clytemnestra "
it is evident from the above that these Errata were inserted for other objects than the usual one.
Omitting all abbreviations, such as r. for read, 1. for line, p. for page, mar., hemor., etc., also the words enclosed in parentheses, it will be found there are 287 italic letters in the completed words = " Fra Rosicrosse."
There are also 132 reman letters, which in simple count stands for " Francis .St. Alban " or " Lord Verulam."
The figures in the Errata also have a cryptic use, as is shewn below. The O's being nulls or n on- significants are not shewn.
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6.1.3.9.8.2.2.
1.3.1.8.3.4.1.1.6.1.6.
1.9.1.1.3.1.4.8.1.6.1.5.4.2.6.1.6.9.
1.8.6.2.1.8.7.3.6
2.6.1.2.7.7.2.3.1.2
1.3.4.1.2.1.1.2.4.1.1.4.2.5.2.1.2.6.9 1.1.6.5.1.6.2.2.4.1.1. 2.8.3.0.8.3.2.9.5.2.3.2.1.2. . . 3.2.4.2.1.9.1.3.3.5.1.8.1.9. ..
3.6.7.1.9.3.9
4.9.1.2.4.1.1.1.6.4.1.4.2.9.4.6.3.
1.3
5.8.3.5.5.9.9.6.1.2.2.2. 6.2.3.3.6.6.3.5.6.6.5.1.6.1.1. 6.7.3.2.5.7.3.1.1.6.7.3.5.7.4.4. 2.4.7.4.8.7.6.4.8.7.6.7.7.7.3.
Total Deduct
Leaves
ERRATA
= 35) 66
= 69)
= 42/^^^
= 33
= 52
= 30)
= 50ll32
= 52)
: g}ioo
: 57)61
131
= 60\
= 71/ = 87
773 287
486
" Era Baconi " (simple count).
" Bacon" (Kaye).
" Bacon " (simple) "SirP.B." (simple;.
" Lord Verulam " or " Francis St. Alban" (simple).
" Francis Bacon " (simple).
"Fr. St. A." (simple).
" Francisco Bacono " (simple) " Fra'cis Bacon " (simple)
" Fra Rosicrosse " (Kaye).
" Franciscus de Verulamio " (Kaye).
The last signature total is as used in Bacon's Novum Organum, 1620, on the second page.
Note. — The fourth figure on the eighth line should be a " 2," but the type has been altered to look like an " 0." This alteration is in two copies of the 1621 that we have examined.