The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Transcriber's Notes:

Marginal notes are used for multiple purposes in this edition, and somewhat differently in each of Browne’s works in Volume III.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Footnotes and section headers were both printed in the margins. For this version, numbered marginal footnotes have been moved to the end of their chapters. Redundant sidenotes merely indicating Part and Section numbers have been removed.

Hydriotaphia: Both lettered and numbered sidenotes are presented, at the end of each chapter as traditional footnotes.

Garden of Cyrus: Nearly all marginal notes are numbered, and are moved to the end of each chapter as footnotes. Any remaining notes are rendered, as nearly as possible as printed.

Certain Miscellany Tracts: There are both numbered and unnumbered marginal notes. Numbered notes have been moved only to the end of each tract.

Christian Morals: The marginal entries are either section numbers or footnotes. The latter have been moved to the end of each part.

Spelling varies considerably, and the text as printed is nearly always retained. The table below summarizes any changes that were made, as well as any variants which have not been changed, but are particularly problematic.

The yogh-like character following a final q in many Latin words is a scribal abbreviation for ‘ue’, "quinq;"; and was frequently printed as a semicolon (;) In the script that appears as a caption to the "quincunce" preceding p. 147, the character appears as as yogh (?).

Trivial inconsistencies in punctuation, particularly in abbreviations appearing in footnotes or sidenotes, as well as the Index, have been silently resolved.

In the text of Found in Norwalk, punctuation and capitalization seems haphazard, and has been left as printed.

An error in the Index for Eugibinius refers the reader to see "Stenchus". The entry is correctly made to Steuchus A. Augustinius Steuchus was a 16th century humanist.

The following entries indicate where minor printer’s errors were made. With few exceptions, Latin passages are allowed to stand as printed, except where noted below.

p. 99	not in CÆs. Comme[n]tar.,	added ‘n’ in footnote
p. 101	The Ægy[p]tians were afraid of fire	added ‘p’
p. 139	we compute o[u]r felicities	added ‘u’.
p. 153	poss[ess]ions of his father	added ‘ess’
p. 164	Greec[e]	added ‘e’
p. 258	[227]: Psal. 120. 4.	marginal note number was added to match anchor
p. 279	De Horti[-]cultura.	hyphen missing, joined.
p. 291	Note 1: [S]ee Vulg. Err. B. 3. c. 10.	added ‘S’
p. 333	st?a[t]e??ta?	added ‘t’
p. 351	[1.] A poem of Ovidius Naso	Added the subsection number for consistency
p. 411	[h/H]e is said to have begun	changed to uppercase ‘H’
p. 423	holden June 4. 1633[/,] it was agreed	changed to comma
p. 538	...a cod[/,] a very good dish...	‘.’ corrected to ‘,’
p. 573	Ear-wig, [296/ii. 96.]	'ii. 96' rather than '296'.
p. 573	Egypt, i. 137, 159, 350; ii. 6, 7, 81, 89, 92, 158, 286, 332, 350-62, 376, 395-6; [ii/iii.] 80 et passim.	corrected from ‘ii.‘
p. 573	Electrical bodies, [i.] 254.	added missing volume.
p. 574	Eve, ... iii. [v/5-6, 10]	corrected Roman v and added actual Vol. III references.
p. 576	Gnat-net, [iii.] 158.	added volume references.
p. 590	Pigeon, i. 34, 317-8, 320-[11/1];	remove extraneous ‘1’
p. 590	---- tree, [iii.] 168]	added missing volume reference
p. 592	Purchas, [iii/ii.] 70, 86.	Wrong volume reference
p. 593	Saligniaco (B. de), [379/iii. 79]	corrected volume reference
p. 600	Vespasian ii. 88, 149[;ii/,] 222;	combined redundant‘ii.’ entries

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