Bodleian Library, Oxford University

MS. Locke c. 43

A large notebook in which Locke made notes on theological topics. Inside the front cover he wrote his shelfmark “13 / 29 a” and the title “Adversaria Theologica 94.”

The notebook begins with some important theological notes. Many of these are in the form of antitheses: opposing viewpoints on opposite pages, with scriptural citations under each; for example “Trinitas” (p. 12) / “Non Trinitas” (p. 13). There is an alphabetical index to these notes at the end of the volume (pp. 1011-1019). Inserted between pp. 46 and 47 is a single sheet of paper containing a note on “Voluntas.”

Later Locke prepared a section for notes on the book of the Apocrypha (pp. 49-187), but in the event, only a single note on Baruch (p. 140) was entered.

Still later, Sir Peter King turned the book back-to-front and used some of the blank pages for legal notes (pp. 1-29 = pp. 1000-972 rev.). The intervening pages (pp. 184-971) are blank.

2^o. 305 × 190 mm. iv, 187 [= p. 185; p. 169 omitted in numbering] 184-1028 pages. Locke numbered only the odd-numbered recto pages. The volume is bound in leather.

p. 44:

Electio [1702?]

p. 47a/b:

Voluntas (1702)