1671

Publications:

1. The correspondence of John Locke / edited by E. S. de Beer. – 1:347-350 [L250]. – Includes an English translation.
2. Selected correspondence / edited by Mark Goldie. – pages 39-40 [English translation.]
3. “John Locke and the case of Anthony Ashley Cooper” / Peter R. Anstey & Lawrence M. Principe. // IN: Early science and medicine. – 16 (2011):496-503. – Latin text and English translation on facing pages.
4. Writings on medicine and natural philosophy / John Locke ; edited by Peter Anstey and Lawrence Principe. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, in preparation. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)

Discussions:   Anstey & Principe, Publication #3 above, pages 400, 496.

Location:
Summary: MS. Locke c. 28, ff. 33-40.
Draft: MS. Locke f. 26.

Description:   The second extant draft of Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding consists of two manuscripts: a summary of the contents and the draft itself.

The summary is written in Locke’s hand on a single quire consisting of four sheets of paper, each folded once to form 16 pages, 145 × 97 mm; pages 1-14 [= 15; two pages are marked “3”; the final page is blank].

The draft is also written in Locke’s hand on a series of folded octavo sheets, sewn in quires into a notebook; with two exceptions, each quire is signed by Locke on the first page. Locke also numbered the pages, but there are many errors. While most of the quires consist of 8 leaves (16 pages), several of them include additional folded sheets. Locke wrote his text on the right-hand (recto) pages, leaving the left-hand (verso) pages for additions and corrections. In several cases, Locke ran out of space for his additions and inserted one or more folded leaves, wrapping them around the quire at the appropriate place for the addition, which typically left the conjugate leaf blank. Details of these added leaves are given below. The volume was rebound by the Bodleian Library, but there is evidence that the quires were sewn together at an earlier date. The following collation represents my best guess about the physical make-up of the volume.

8^o. 169 × 102 mm (A-Z); 145 × 83 mm (AA-EE; CC is 153 mm tall)
π⁴ A⁸ π⁴ B¹⁰ C-L⁸ M¹⁰ N-T⁸ U¹⁶ W¹⁴ X-Y⁸ Z¹⁴ AA-EE⁸. viii, 474 pages [=514 pages; page 16 appears nine times; pages 30, 178, 190, 203, 308, 312, 318 three times; 328, 335 five times; 306, 314 seven times].

Quire A consists of 16 leaves, containin four folded sheets wrapped around the original quire; the signature appears on the fifth leaf (A5). In quire B, a folded leaf is inserted after B1/8; the pagination of the preceding page is repeated on the pages of the inserted leaf (i.e., page 18 appears three times, as does page 30). In quire M, again a folded leaf is inserted after M1/8; again the pagination of the preceding page is repeates (i.e., pages 178 and 190 appear three times). Four leaves have been inserted in quire V, three following V2/7 and one following V3/6 (original foliation); or, to put it another way, of the 16 leaves in the quire, V3/14, V4/13, V6/12, and V7/10 are insertions; the pagination does not exactly follow the pattern of the insertions in quires A and M. In quire W, a new leaf is wrapped around the original quire (i.e., W1/14 is an insertion; W14 is blank); at some point, Locke replaced the inner three leaves (with a four-leaf inserted quire that shows identical tears indicating that they were formed from the same sheet of paper; these inserted leaves are those now numbered W3/12, W4/11, W5/10, and W6/9; finally, another folded leaf was inserted at the center of the quire, forming what is now W7/8; again the pagination is complex and contains errors. Finally, in quire Z, an entire quire (originally signed × on what is now Z4) has been inserted after Z3/12; of the remaining leaves (the first and last three leaves), the inner two seem to be original, predating the inserted × quire; Z1/14, however, is a leaf inserted to provide for additional text on Z14 (Z1 is blank). The textual implications of all these insertions are explained in Walmsley, “Locke, mechanism and Draft B, a correction” (2006), which also includes a detailed technical description of the manuscript.

The flyleaf/cover (p. i) is marked “Intellectus 1671 J.L.” The title “De Intellectu humano 1671 An Essay” appears on p. [1]. The title “An Essay concerning The Understanding, Knowledge Beleif Opinion & Assent” appears above the beginning of the text on p. 3. The text breaks off abruptly in mid-sentence in § 162.

Publications:

1. An essay concerning the understanding, knowledge, opinion and assent / by John Locke ; edited with an introduction by Benjamin Rand. – Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1931. [Locke #936]
2. Draft B of Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding : the fullest extant autograph version / transcribed with critical apparatus by Peter H. Nidditch. – [Sheffield] : Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, 1982. [Locke #937]
3. Drafts for the Essay concerning human understanding, and other philosophical writings / John Locke ; edited by Peter H. Nidditch and G.A.J. Rogers. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1990-  . – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – vol. 1, pp. 85-270. [Locke #942]
4. [selections] Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 359-360. Includes §157 of the draft. [Locke #867+]
5. [Italian translation:] La conoscenza umana / Giovanni Locke ; a cura di Armando Carlini. – Bari : G. Laterza, 1948. – 305 p. – (Piccola biblioteca filosofici) [Locke #938]
   Reprinted as: Saggio sull’intelligenza, secondo abbozzo / Locke ; introduzione di C.A. Viano. – Bari : Laterza, [1968]. – 272 p. – (Piccola biblioteca filosofici) [Locke #939]

Discussions:   Introductions to the publications listed above; Aaron & Gibb, “Introduction” to An early draft of Locke’s Essay (1934), p. xi-xxviii, 127-130; Aaron, “How the Essay was written.” (1955); Walmsley, “Locke, mechanism and Draft B, a correction” (2006)