Christ, by the Evangell.” A31–A51, 5 pages, “To The Right Excellent, High And Mightie Prince, Iames The Sixt, King Of Scottes, Grace And Peace, &c,”, ‘The Episle Dedicatorie,’ signed “At Marchistoun the 29 daye of Januar, 1593. . . . Iohn Napeir, Fear of Marchistoun.” A52-A72, 5 pages, “To the Godly and Christian Reader.” A82, “The booke this bill sends to the Beast,|Crauing amendment now in heast,|” with 26 lines following, then “Faults escaped.”, 16 lines. A82,“A Table of the Conclusions introductiue to the Reuelation, and proued in the first Treatise.” B11–F31, pp. 1-69, “The First And Introductory Treatise, conteining a searching of the true meaning of the Reuelation, beginning the discouerie thereof at the places most easie, and most euidentlie knowne, and so proceeding from the knowne, to the proouing of the unknowne, untill finallie, the whole groundes thereof bee brought to light, after the - manner of Propositions.”, 36 Propositions and Conclusion. F32, p. 70, “A Table Definitive And Diuisiue of the whole Revelation,” F4–S71, pp. 71–269, “The Second And Principal Treatis, wherein (by the former grounds) the whole Apocalyps or Reuelation of S. Iohn, ts paraphrasticallie expounded, historicallie applied, and temporallie dated, with notes on euery difficultie, and arguments on each Chapter”; at the beginning of each chapter is “The Argument.”, then follow “The Text.”, “Paraphrastical exposition.”, “Anno Christi.”, and “Historical application.”, the four subjects being arranged in parallel columns (in chapters 1 to 5, and 7, 10, 15, 18, 19, 21, and 22, there is no Historical application, in which case the columns for it and also for Anno Christi are omitted), at the end of each chapter “Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications.” are added. S73-S82, 3 pages, “To the misliking Reader whosoeuer.” T11-T42, 8 pages, “Hereafter followeth Certaine Notable Prophecies agreable to our purpose, extract out of the books of Sibylla, whose authorities neither being so authentik, that hitherto vve could cite any of them in matters of scriptures, neither so prophane that altogether we could omit them: We haue therefore thought very meet, seuerally and apart to insert the same here, after the end of this worke of holy scripture, because of the famous antiquitie, approued veritie, and harmonicall consentment thereof with the scriptures of God, and specially with the 18. chapter of this holy Revelation.”
Signatures. A to S in eights + T in four = 148 leaves.
Paging. 16+ 269 numbered + 11 = 296 pages.
Errors in Paging. Page 26 numbered 62, and page 229 numbered 239.
The outside sheet (leaves 1, 2, 7, 8) of Signature B was set up a second time, with slight differences in the spelling and occasionally in the division into lines. Consequently copies may be found in which the title of the First treatise does not agree exactly with that given above. The Advocates’ Library in Edinburgh has copies of the two varieties.
The following extract explains the circumstances under which this first work of Napier’s was published. The passage begins at the second last line in the second page of the address ‘To the Godly and Christian Reader.’ (In the edition of 1611 the passage begins on line 7 of the third page.)
