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- 1640-[1640x1648]. (Creation)
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1 bundle.
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Manuscript drafts, 1640-[1640x1648], of Edward Herbert’s ‘De Causis Errorum’, an unfinished treatise on logical fallacies which was included in the third edition of 'De Veritate' (published in 1645).
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Removed from the original bundles, but arranged following the order of the bundles in the previous arrangement.
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Latin.
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Publication note
Editions and analysis of these manuscripts include: De causis errorum: una cum tractatu de religion laici ... [facsimile ed. G. Gawlick] (Stuttgart, 1966).
Notes area
Note
The document formerly numbered XIX 6 ('43'), and entitled 'Appendix', has been marked in a modern hand as belonging to ‘De Causis Errorum'. Rossi and Beal, however, identify it as a complete copy of 'De Religione Laici', and it is therefore now E2/4/2.
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Preferred citation: E2/2.