Special Bacon-Shakespeare Title Pages & Emblems

[A Phoenix]

Hi Kate,

Hopefully, Yann and Rob will shed some light on it.

[Light-of-Truth]

My goal is to be able to do just that! Friday night, wrapping things up after a busy week.

Have some thoughts already, hoping...

😉

 

[Allisnum2er]

This one is harder ! 

I just noticed a difference between the word "BRITTANNICA" on the left, and "BRITANNICA" on the right.

BRITANNICA = 100 = FRANCIS BACON (Simple Cipher)

BRITTANNICA = 119 = MEDIOCRIA FIRMA (Simple Cipher)

[Light-of-Truth]

For me to catch up, I needed to know what this book is. I see:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/joseph-hall-mundus-alter-et-idem-third-edition-ut-39-c-f6d491f8ae

Lot 39: Joseph Hall, Mundus Alter et idem, third edition, Utrecht 1643. Hall's work is the earliest utopia set in Terra Australis and provided Swift for many ideas for 'Gullivery's Travels'.

Interesting this image of the book that was for sale has B, A, and C underlined. A past cipher enthusiast owned this book? 😉

 

Quick cipher thing...

FRANC. BACONIS is 100 Simple, 200 Reverse, 55 Short, and 282 Kaye.

FRANCIS BACON is the same, but is the exact same letters of the above.

Until tonight I never knew that FRANCIS BACON is 287 Kaye using the 26 letter codes. Wow, how did I miss that??

MERCVRIO BRITANNICO is 100 Short cipher using the same codes.

Authore MERCVRIO BRITANNICO = Author FRANCIS BACON.

But we already know that, right? Kind of. Did Bacon write this?

What about this:

CIVITAS SOLIS = 157 Simple and 287 Kaye using the same 26 letter codes.

If this was Bacon in 1643, he appears to be emphasizing the 26 letter ciphers. 🙂

EDIT:

I just read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundus_Alter_et_Idem

Bacon did write it. 😉

"Although the text credits "Mercurius Britannicus" as the author, Thomas Hyde ascribed it to Hall in 1674."

And...

"It was not clearly ascribed to Hall by name until 1674, when Thomas Hyde, the librarian of the Bodleian, identified "Mercurius Britannicus" with Joseph Hall, as is now accepted.^[6] Hall's authorship had been an open secret, however, and in 1642 John Milton used it to attack him during the Smectymnuus controversy, employing the argument that the work lacked the constructive approach taken in More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis.^[7]"

Edited March 19, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Light-of-Truth]

This book sounds like a riot!

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674284852

"The Antarctic Continent was inhabited, it seems, in the days of Queen Elizabeth by four main peoples, the crapulous folk of Tenter-belly, the vira-goes of Shee-landt, the morons of Fooliana, and the pirates and highwaymen of Theevingen. The author of this voyage pretends to have visited all these places, and records his impressions with the circumstantial pen of a journalist, and with an energy and relish barely surpassed by Rabelais himself. The result is unique, for it is the only authentic legend of the Antarctic, and yet it is also a fantasy, a burlesque, a satire, and an encyclopedia of learning, all in one salvo. The editor’s devoted but unobtrusive labors have made this first modern edition of an excessively rare text definitive, and it goes forth with the enthusiastic endorsement of the great explorer to whose achievement it is dedicated as a fitting token of homage."

A. Phoenix, I bet you know something you have not shared yet. You posted the images, but you have already dug into it more than I have. Can you tell?? If not, we understand. 🙂

 

[A Phoenix]

Hi Rob,

Unfortunately, I have absolutely no knowledge or information about it but it certainly looks fascinating and intriguing. 

[Kate]

Bard(e) in plain sight
 

[Allisnum2er]

With Francis Bacon, there is always, an incredible, beautiful, elegant solution !😊

HERE IS THE SOLUTION ! 😉

[Allisnum2er]

19 hours ago, Kate Cassidy said:

Three words on the diagonal end in is starting at Civitas Solis. Any meaning in that? Isis?

Kate ,you were right ! 🙂 

The 3 words  SOLIS , ATLANTIS and BACONIS were clues in order to find the fourth (hidden) one : LAPIS ! 

[A Phoenix]

The '1609' edition of Shakespeares Sonnets included another Shakespeare poem A Lover's Complaint written in rhyme royal the same metre as the Shakespeare narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece. The first two lines of The Rape of Lucrece are headed by a very large F and two large capitals letters R and B which stand for Fr[ancis] B[acon]. In the edition of Shakespeares Sonnets the first sonnet begins with a large capital F and R (and following the indentation) a capital B thus we have again the letters for Fr[ancis] B[acon].  Now if we take a look at the first stanza of A Lover's Complaint it begins with the capital letters FRA and down below it the letters which make up MY NAME and from the b in the third line reading upwards Bacon thus it reads MY NAME IS FRA [NCIS] BACON.  

Arden, 'Acrostics and Quibbles', Baconiana, No. 159, December 1958, p. 105.

[Allisnum2er]

Hi, A Phoenix !

I think that there is another reference to his name a few lines later : f. bacon

But must of all, there is the beautiful OWL , a reference to his muse Pallas Athena ! 🙂 

Edit : And with the S of "Some beauty" we have SOW once again !

Some beauty...

Oft did she ...

Which on it ...

Edited March 19, 2022 by Allisnum2er

[A Phoenix]

THE GRAND ROSICRUCIAN ILLUSION THAT WILLIAM SHAKSPERE OF STRATFORD WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE SHAKESPEARE WORKS.  

[A Phoenix]

THIS EMBLEM IN THE RARE 1616 (THE SAME YEAR WILLIAM SHAKESPERE OF STRATFORD DIED) PLEMPI EDITION ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATES THE FACT THAT SHAKSPERE WAS A LITERARY MASK FOR LORD BACON.

[A Phoenix]

SHORTLY AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE 1623 SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO THERE APPEARED A WORK ON CODES AND CYPHERS ENTITLED CRYPTOMENYTICES (1624) SHOWING LORD BACON GIVING HIS LITERARY MASK SHAKSPERE ONE OF HIS SHAKESPEARE PLAYS TO BE PERFORMED AT THE GLOBE THEATRE.

[A Phoenix]

THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER-POET AND VENTRILOQUIST IN THE WORLD CONTROLLING HIS DUMMY THE ACTOR WILLIAM SHAKSPERE WHOSE SECRET THE CONCEALED AUTHORSHIP OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS IS VERY CLOSELY WATCHED OVER BY HIS SUBLIME ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONRY BROTHERHOOD.

[Allisnum2er]

On 3/19/2022 at 2:08 PM, Allisnum2er said:

With Francis Bacon, there is always, an incredible, beautiful, elegant solution !😊

HERE IS THE SOLUTION ! 😉

Hi, everyone !

Here some additionnal thoughts :

MERCURIO + BACONIS =  157 🙂  (157 = FRA ROSIE CROSS)

LAPIS = 57 (Simple cipher 26 letters) = FRA. BACON (Simple cipher 24 letters)

LAPIS = 106 (Kay Cipher) a reference to Father R.C.

Regards.

 

[A Phoenix]

THE TITLE PAGE AND FRONTISPIECE OF THE 1641 FRENCH EDITION OF SAGESSE MYSTERIEUSE DES ANCIENS (THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS) DEPICTING THE GODDESS PALLAS ATHENA THE SHAKER OF THE SPEAR DENOTING THAT BACON IS SHAKESPEARE.

[A Phoenix]

[Allisnum2er]

As the saying goes, better late than never.

 

 

[A Phoenix]

Brilliant Yann, love it!

[Light-of-Truth]

Love it! (It needs to be added to your page!)

https://sirbacon.org/all-is-num2er/

🙂

 

[A Phoenix]

THE SYMBOLIC FRONTISPIECE TO THE 1640 FRENCH EDITION OF THE DE AUGMENTIS SCIENTIARUM.

[A Phoenix]

THE TITLE PAGE AND SYMBOLIC FRONTISPIECE OF THE 1647 FRENCH EDITION OF HISTOIRE DE LA VIE ET MORT (THE HISTORY OF LIFE AND DEATH).

[Allisnum2er]

Hi A Phoenix !

The two last verses of the poem are : " He (The Man)  is like a Torch which is exposed to the storm which nourishes it, consumes it and extinguishes it." 

It can be seen as a reference to the Salamander and the motto of Francis I, King  of France  : "Nutrisco et extinguo". 🙂 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nutrisco_et_extinguo_Salamandre_de_François_I_Azay.jpg

[A Phoenix]

TWO SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT SYMBOLIC TITLE PAGES OF 1648 LATIN EDITIONS OF SYLVA SYLVARUM.