This page offers a list of short titles used in published and unpublished volumes of the Oxford Francis Bacon. Works which are yet to be published are given abbreviations in red. Works which are yet to be assigned to a volume are marked with an asterisk. Note that this list does not yet set out to provide a complete canon of Bacon’s writings.
| AC | Aphorismi et consilia (c.1607?) | OFB V |
| ACC | Act of Council on Commendams (n.d.) | OFB VII |
| ACE | Advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England (1589) | OFB I |
| ACI | Apology in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex (late 1603) | OFB III |
| ACRE | Account of the committees for repair of the King’s estate (Aug. 1612) | OFB III |
| ACT | Accounts (1618) | OFB VII |
| ACWM | Act in Council concerning Whitelocke and Mansel (12 June 1613) | OFB III |
| AdE1 | First letter of advice to the Earl of Essex (1596) | OFB I |
| AdE2 | Second letter of advice to the Earl of Essex (1597) | OFB II |
| AdE3 | Third letter of advice to the Earl of Essex (1598) | OFB II |
| AdE4 | Advice to Essex before his going into Ireland (1599) | OFB II |
| AdFG | Letter of advice to Fulke Greville (c.1589) | OFB I |
| AdK | Advice to the King touching Sutton’s estate (1611) | OFB III |
| AdKS | Advice to the King touching Sutton’s estate (c. Jan. 1612) | OFB III |
| AdQ | Letter of advice to the Queen (1584-5) | OFB I |
| AdR1 | First letter of advice to the Earl of Rutland (1595) | OFB I |
| AdR2 | Second letter of advice to the Earl of Rutland (1595) | OFB I |
| AdR3 | Third letter of advice to the Earl of Rutland (1595) | OFB I |
| AFU | An act for the better grounding of a further union (1604) | OFB III |
| AHW | Advertisement touching an holy war (1622) | OFB VIII |
| AJ | Aphorismi de jure gentium maiore (before 1618?) | OFB VII |
| AL | Advancement of Learning (1605) | OFB IV |
| ANN | Abecedarium novum naturæ (1622) | OFB XIII |
| AntR | Antitheta rerum in DAS (1623) | OFB IX |
| AOA | About the oath of allegiance (12 Oct. 1613) | OFB III |
| APC | Advertisement touching private censure (c. 1598) | OFB I |
| Apo | Apophthegms (1625) | OFB VIII |
| AQI | Answers to the questions sent from Ireland (c.1608) | OFB III |
| AQM(E) | Articles of questions touching minerals (English) | * |
| AQM(L) | Articuli quaestionum circa mineralia (Latin) | * |
| ArB | Argument on the commission of Bridewell (c.1587) | OFB I |
| ArBS | Arguments against the bill of sheets (1606) | OFB III |
| ArC | Argument in Chudley’s case (1594) | OFB I |
| ArCM | Argument in maintaining the jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches (Apr. or Nov. 1608) | OFB III |
| ArDC | Arguments in the case de commenda (1616) | OFB VII |
| ArL | Arguments of law … in certain great and difficult cases (1616) | OFB VII |
| ArPN | Argument in the case of the post-nati (1608) | OFB III |
| ArRI | Argument proving the King’s right of impositions (June/July 1610) | OFB III |
| ArW | The argument on the writ De non procedendo rege inconsulto (1615) | OFB VII |
| ASW | An aduertisement touching seditious writing (c. 1589-93) | OFB I |
| BIB | Breviate of Irish business (2 July 1613) | OFB III |
| CAU | Certain articles touching the Union (Summer 1604) | OFB III |
| CBES | Collections out of the bookes receaved from the earle of Salisbury (by 1612) | OFB III |
| CBP | Certain considerations touching … the Church of England (Aug.-Oct. 1603) | OFB III |
| CC | Short notes on civil conversation (n.d.) | OFB II |
| CCN | Circular from the Council to the Nobility (1620) | OFB VII |
| ChD | Charge touching duels (1614) | OFB VII |
| CDNR | Cogitationes de natura rerum (before 1605?) | OFB V |
| CDSH | [Cogitationes de scientia humana] (before 1605?) | OFB V |
| CFr | Calor et frigus (n.d.) | OFB V |
| CGE | Colours of good and evil (1597) | OFB II |
| Ch01 | Charge of Owen (1615) | OFB VII |
| Ch02 | Charge of Owen (fair copy) (1615) | OFB VII |
| CHP | Catalogus historiarum particularium (in IM) (1620) | OFB XI |
| ChCS | Charge against the Countess of Somerset (1616) | OFB VII |
| ChES | Charge against the Earl of Somerset (1616) | OFB VII |
| ChIS | The charge … against Mr I. S. (Oliver St John) (28 Apr. 1615) | OFB VII |
| ChS | My Ladie Shrewsburies cause touching Arbella Stuart (1612) | OFB III |
| ChST | The charge against M. L. S. W. and H. I. for scandall and traducing (10 Nov. 1615) | OFB VII |
| ChT | The charge … against William Talbot (Jan. 1614) | OFB VII |
| ChV | Charge upon the commission of oyer and determiner for the verge (c.1611/12) | OFB III |
| ChW | The charge of Mr Whitlocke (June 1613) | OFB III |
| CIW | The case of the impeachment of waste (c.1615) | OFB VII |
| CJB | Case of John Bartram (1616) | OFB VII |
| CKP | Cases of the King’s prerogative (c.1608?) | OFB III |
| ConF | A confession of faith (c. 1602-3) | OFB II |
| ConS | Confession and Submission (1621) | OFB VII |
| CPI | Certaine considerations touching the plantation in Ireland (Jan. 1609) | OFB III |
| CPP | The certificate to his majesty touching the projects of Sir Stephen Proctor (1608) | OFB III |
| CQS | Considerations touching the Queen’s service in Ireland (1602) | OFB II |
| CRC | The certificate or return of the Commissioners (by Dec. 1604) | OFB III |
| CRU | The case of the revocation of uses (c.1615) | OFB VII |
| CS | Commentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriæ (July 1608) | OFB III |
| CSec | Caput secundum (c. from 1603) | OFB V |
| CT | Cloth trade (1616) | OFB VII |
| CSS | A certificate touching the scarcity of silver at the Mint (Feb. 1612) | OFB III |
| CV | Cogitata et visa de interpretatione naturæ (c. 1607) | OFB V |
| CWGS | The counsells warrant for searching [?] for gold and siluer thread (1618) | OFB VII |
| CWI | Certificate touching the wools of Ireland (1616) | OFB VII |
| CWS | Considerations touchinge a warre with Spaine (1624) | OFB VII |
| DAS | De augmentis scientiarum (1623) | OFB IX, X |
| DCW | Dispute between the King’s Bench and the Court of Wales (1606) | OFB III |
| DFRM | De fluxu et reflexu maris (c. 1611) | OFB VI |
| DGI | Descriptio globi intellectualis (1612) | OFB VI |
| DIN | De interpretatione naturæ sententiæ xii (c. 1607?) | OFB V |
| DINP | De interpretatione naturæ prooemium (before 1605?) | OFB V |
| DMW | Directions for the Master ofthe Wards to observe (June 1612) | OFB III |
| DO | Distributio operis (in IM) (1620) | OFB XI |
| DP | Decree on Praemunire (n.d.) | OFB VII |
| DPAO | De principiis atque originibus (c.1612?) | OFB VI |
| DPT | A declaration of the practises & treasons … of Essex (1601) | OFB II |
| DRH | A direccon for the readeinge of histories with profitt (c.1601-2) | OFB II |
| DRL | Upon the death of the duke of Richmond and Lennox (Feb. 1624) | OFB VII |
| DST | De spe terrestri (by 1597) | OFB II |
| DSV | De sapientia veterum (1609) | OFB V |
| DUK | A brief discourse touching the happy union of the kingdoms (May/June 1603) | OFB III |
| DVM | De vijs mortis (after c.1611) | OFB VI |
| DWR | A declaration of the demeanor and cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh (1618) | OFB VII |
| E97 | Essaies (1597) | OFB II |
| E12 | Essaies (c. Oct. 1612) | OFB III |
| E12(ded) | Letter Dedicatory to Prince Henry (Oct. 1612) | OFB III |
| EAW | Experiments about weight in air and water | * |
| ECS | The earl of Essex to the Council on embarking for Spain (1596) | * |
| ED | Essex’s device [Accession Day Device] (1596) | OFB I |
| EEP | Examination of Edward Peacham (1614–15) | OFB VII |
| EM | Elegancies miscellany (22 Apr. 1601) | OFB II |
| EP | Experiments for profit | * |
| EsF(57) | A fragment of an essay of fame | OFB XV |
| EsF(MS) | An essay of fame | OFB III |
| EsH | Essayes (1612) [Harleian MS] | OFB III |
| Ess | Essayes (1625) (1625) | OFB XV |
| ExD | The examination of John Drake (6 Nov. 1605) | OFB III |
| FBL | Franciscus Bacon lectori (1607-8?) | OFB V |
| FBSC | Franciscvs de Vervlamio sic cogitavit (1620) | OFB XI |
| FL | Filum labyrinthi, sive formula inquisitionis (c. 1607) | OFB V |
| FLIL | Filum labyrinthi sive inquisitio legitima de motu (1607-8?) | OFB V |
| FME | In felicem memoriam Elizabethæ (by 1608) | OFB III |
| FMW | A frame of declaration for the Master of the Wards (June 1612) | OFB III |
| GG | Gesta Grayorum: Orations at Graies Inne revells (3 Jan. 1595) | OFB I |
| HDR | Historia densi & rari (Rawley’s version) | OFB XIII |
| HDR(M) | Historia densi & rari (BN coll. Dupuy version) | OFB XIII |
| HGB | History of Great Britain (c.1610) | OFB III |
| HGL | Historia gravis et levis (1622) | OFB XII |
| HIDA | Historia & inquisitio de animato & inanimato (c.1622-3) | OFB XIII |
| HIP | Helps to the intellectual powers … to Sir Henry Saville (1598) | OFB II |
| HMA | The humble motion and allegacions … concerninge certaine fees (c. 1597) | OFB II |
| HNE | Historia naturalis et experimentalis (1622) | OFB XII |
| HPWE | In Henricem principem Walliæ elogium (1613) | OFB III |
| HRH | Historia regni Henrici Septimi regis Angliae (1638) | * |
| HSA | Historia soni et auditus (c. 1608?) | OFB V |
| HSAR | Historia sympathiae et antipathiae rerum (1622) | OFB XII |
| HSMS | Historia sulphuris, mercurii et salis (1622) | OFB XII |
| HV | Historia ventorum (1622) | OFB XII |
| HVM | Historiae vitae et mortis (1623) | OFB XII |
| HVII | The historie of the raigne of King Henry the seuenth (1622) | OFB VIII |
| HVIII | The historie of the raigne of King Henry the eighth (1621-) | OFB VIII |
| IAC | Imago civilis Augustæ Cæsaris (by c.1608) | OFB III |
| IBR | Inter Banc. Reg. et Cur. March. Wall. (c.1606-8) | OFB III |
| ICA | Instructions to the commissions concerning aid (Aug. 1612) | OFB III |
| ICJ | Imago civilis Julii Cæsaris (by c.1608) | OFB III |
| ICM | Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals | * |
| IDM | Inquisitio de magnete (1625) | OFB XIII |
| IDM(E) | Inquisitio de magnete (English notes) | * |
| IIL | Innovations introduced into the laws (1616) | OFB VII |
| ILM | Inquisitio legitima de motu (by 27 July 1608) | OFB V |
| IM | Instauratio magna (1620, 1623) | OFB IX |
| ⎯ | OFB X | |
| ⎯ | OFB XI | |
| ⎯ | OFB XII | |
| ⎯ | OFB XIII | |
| IMP | Instauratio magna præfatio (1620) | OFB XI |
| IP | Incidents of a Parliament (1613/14) | OFB VII |
| IVB | Inquisition concerning the versions of Bodies | * |
| IVC | Inquisitio de versionibus corporum | * |
| IVDI | Indicia vera de interpretatione naturæ (from 1607) | OFB V |
| JCM | Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches (1606) | OFB III |
| KCP | It is fit for the King to call a Parliament (1613/14) | OFB VII |
| KH8 | The history of K. Henry 8, Edward, Mary and … Elizabeth (c.1602) | OFB II |
| KLH | A kallender of the lawes … of hostillitie (Nov. 1604) | OFB III |
| KP | To the King advising him to call Parliament (1615) | OFB VII |
| LAV1 | Letter of Advice to Villiers (version 1) (1616) | OFB VII |
| LAV2 | Letter of Advice to Villiers (version 2) (1616) | OFB VII |
| LCK | The Lord Chancellor and Lord Privy Seal to the King (21 Oct. 1612 | OFB III |
| LCT | Lowe’s case of tenures (c.1615) | OFB VII |
| LKH | Letter to the King upon sending him a beginning of a history of his time (c.1610/11) | OFB III |
| LKC | Letter to the King regarding the commissions concerning aid (Aug. 1612) | OFB III |
| LKI | A letter to the King, upon presenting the Discourse, touching … Ireland (Jan. 1609) | OFB III |
| LKPN | Letter to the King upon presenting papers concerning the post-nati (28 Nov. 1608) | OFB III |
| LN | Legal Notes (1621) | OFB VII |
| LPH | Letter to Prince Henry (1612) | OFB III |
| LST | Letter to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (19 Mar. 1621) | OFB VII |
| LW1 | Last Will (1621) (1621) | OFB VII |
| LW2 | Last Will (1625) (19 Dec. 1625) | OFB VII |
| LW3 | Last will (Baconiana) (by 1625) | OFB VII |
| LWE | A letter written out of England (8 Dec. 1598) | OFB II |
| MedS | Meditationes sacræ (1597) | OFB II |
| MA | The misfortunes of Arthur: dumb shows (1588) | OFB I |
| MAC | Memorandum of access (1621–22) | OFB VII |
| MDC | Memorial for a declaration in Council (1616) | OFB VII |
| Mem | Memorial (1621) | OFB VII |
| MHV | Of magnanimitie or heroicall vertue (c.1595) | OFB I |
| ML | Maxims of the law (1597) | OFB II |
| MLU | The man of life upright | * |
| MMS | Memorial of some points in his Majesty’s Speech (1613/14) | OFB VII |
| MN | Magnalia Naturae (1626/7) | OFB XIV |
| MPL | Memorial touching the review of penal laws (n.d.) | OFB VII |
| MQS | Memorandum on the Queen’s safety (1594) | OFB I |
| NA | New Atlantis (1626) | OFB XIV |
| NCCB | Notes re Cranfield/Countess of Buckingham (1621–22) | OFB VII |
| NDC | Notes on Lord Darcy’s Case (1616) | OFB VII |
| NO | Novum organum (1620) | OFB XI |
| NovA | Nova Atlantis (1638) | * |
| NSpC | Notes to a Speech in Chancery (Whitlock) (1619–20) | OFB VII |
| NSpW | Notes of a speech on war with Spain (1623–24) | OFB VII |
| NYT | Notes on Mr Attorney’s Cause/Yelverton’s Trial (1620) | OFB VII |
| OC | An Answere to the questions … touching the office of Constable (1608) | OFB III |
| OCN1 | Obiections against the change of the name of England into the name of Brittanie (25 Apr. 1604) | OFB III |
| OCN2 | Objections against the change of the name or style of England and Scotland (27 Apr. 1604) | OFB III |
| OCR | Ordinance for Constituting Reporters (1617) | OFB VII |
| OD | Offer of a digest of the laws of England (1621) | OFB VII |
| OKP | [On the King’s prerogative] (from 1603) | OFB III |
| OL | Observations made upon a libell (1592) | OFB I |
| OL(ep) | Epistle to the reader (of OL) (1593) | OFB I |
| OrC* | Of the title of Great Britain (perhaps 1604) | OFB III |
| OrC* | Ordinances in Chancery (1618–21) | OFB VII |
| ORF | On Royal Finances (1619–20) | OFB VII |
| OTGB | Ordinances in Chancery (1618–21) | OFB VII |
| OU | Usury and the use thereof (29 Mar. 1623) | OFB VII |
| PA | Prodromi sive anticipationes philosophiae secundae (c.1621) | OFB XIII |
| PAH | Parasceve ad historiam naturalem (1620) | OFB XI |
| PAR | Proposition concerning the augmentation of the King’s revenue (Aug. 1612) | OFB III |
| PC | Public Commissions (1619–20) | OFB VII |
| PCL | Proposition touching the compiling of the laws (1616) | OFB VII |
| PFE | Promus or formularies of elegancies (1594–1595) | OFB I |
| PHL | Petition to the House of Lords (29 Mar. 1620) | OFB VII |
| PhU | Phænomena universi (1609–1611) | OFB VI |
| PID | Partis instaurationis secundæ delineatio & argumentum (by 1609) | OFB V |
| PMR | Physiological & medical remains | OFB VIII |
| Pr | A prayer made by the Lord Chancellor (after 1618) | OFB VII |
| PrB | A proclamation for buildings (25 July 1608) | OFB III |
| PrC | A proclamation drawn for his Majesty’s first coming in (Apr./May 1603) | OFB III |
| PrCI | [Proclamation on Cloth] (1613) | OFB III |
| PRD | Proposition for the repressing of singular combats or Duelloes (1613?) | OFB VII |
| PrFa | [Proclamation on Farthings] (1613) | OFB III |
| PrFe | [Proclamation on Felts] (1613) | OFB III |
| PrGS | [Proclamation on Gold and Silver] (1612) | OFB III |
| PrJ | A proclamation for jurors (by 5 Oct. 1607) | OFB III |
| PrJC | [Proclamation on John Cotton] (1613) | OFB III |
| PrM | A proclamation touching the Marches (1607-8) | OFB III |
| Pro | The proceedings of the Earl of Essex (1599) | OFB I |
| PrP | Draft ofa proclamation for Parliament (1620) | OFB VII |
| PrS | A draught of a proclamation touching his Majesties style (by Oct. 1604) | OFB III |
| PS | A Prayer, or Psalme (1621) | OFB VII |
| PUL | A preparation for the union of lawes (by 1608) | OFB II |
| PVO | Points to be observed in the voluntary oblation (1614) | OFB VII |
| QLW | Questions about the lawfulness of a war for the propagation of religion | * |
| RA | Reading on advowsons (1588) | OFB I |
| RAS | Reply to the arguments of the serjeants (1607?) | OFB III |
| Rep | A Report (1621) | OFB VII |
| RFC | Report of the first dayes conference (28 Feb. 1607) | OFB III |
| RRC | Reasons to remove Coke to be Chief Justice (1613) | OFB III |
| RSp06 | Report on a Speech in Parliament (25 Nov. 1606) | OFB III |
| RSU | Reading on the statute of uses (Lent 1600) | OFB II |
| RPh | Redargutio philosophiarum (by 1609) | OFB V |
| RPM | A report … att a conference concerning the peticion of the marchantes (17 June 1607) | OFB III |
| RPQ | On the religious policies of the Queen (Letter to Critoy) (c.1589) | OFB I |
| RSU | Reading on the statute of uses (1600) | OFB II |
| SCDS | Star Chamber notes on deer stealing (n.d.) | OFB VII |
| Sed | Of seditions and troubles (by c. 1614) | OFB III |
| SF | Sermones fideles sive interiora rerum (1638) | * |
| [SHC] | [On the Sutton Hospital Case] (1612) | OFB III |
| SI | Scala intellectus sive filum labyrinthi (n.d.) | OFB V |
| SP1 | Submission to Parliament (19 April) (19 Apr. 1621) | OFB VII |
| SP2 | Submission to Parliament (22 April) (22 Apr. 1621) | OFB VII |
| SP3 | Submission to Parliament (30 April) (30 Apr. 1621) | OFB VII |
| SpA | The speeche deliuered at the Arraignemte of the Lord Sanquer (27 June 1612) | OFB III |
| SpC | Speech in Star Chamber (1619) | OFB VII |
| SpCG | Speech to the King presenting the Commons’ grievances (3 July 1610) | OFB III |
| SpCH | Speech at the taking of his place in Chancery (7 May 1617) | OFB VII |
| SpCP | Speech upon the Case of Parry (1614) | OFB VII |
| SpD | Speech to Sir John Denham (19 May 1617) | OFB VII |
| SpF | First Speech (30 Jan. 1620) | OFB VII |
| SpK | Speech on receiving the King’s messages (1610) | OFB VII |
| SpH | Speech to Mr Serjeant Hutton (19 May 1617) | OFB VII |
| SpI | Speech on impositions (1614) | OFB VII |
| SpJ | Speech to the Judges (1617) | OFB VII |
| SpKM | Speech on receiving the King’s messages (1610) | OFB III |
| SpL* | Speech concerning the union of laws (28 Mar. 1607) | OFB III |
| SpL* | Speech to the Lords (1621) | OFB VII |
| SpN | Speech concerning the article of naturalization (17 Feb. 1607) | OFB III |
| SpP | Speech touching purveyors (27 Apr. 1604) | OFB III |
| SpPS | Speech persuading supply (23 Nov. 1610) | OFB III |
| SpS | Speech to the Commons on a motion of subsidy (1597) | OFB II |
| SpSC(17) | Speech in Star Chamber (1617) (1617) | OFB VII |
| SpSC(18) | Star-Chamber. My L. Chancellor’s speech to the judges (26 June 1618) | OFB VII |
| SpSC(19) | Speech to the Speaker’s excuse (early 1621) | OFB VII |
| SpSC(20) | Speech in Star Chamber (1620) Yelverton (1620) | OFB VII |
| SpSE | Speech in Star Chamber (1619) | OFB VII |
| SpW | Accusation of Wentworth and others – Speech in STAC (1615) | OFB VII |
| SpWJ | Speech to Sir William Jones (19 May 1617) | OFB VII |
| SpWT | A speech unto the Lords for wards and tenures (8 Mar. 1610) | OFB III |
| SpU | Speech concerning Undertakers (c.1615) | |
| SS | Sylva sylvarum (1626) | OFB XIV |
| SSWN | Sylva sylvarum (working notes) (before 1626) | OFB XIV |
| ST | For the Earl of Sussex at the tilt (1596) | OFB I |
| STP | A speech … touching purveyors (1604) | OFB III |
| TC | Thema cœli (c.1612) | OFB VI |
| TCP | Translation of certain Psalms (1625) | OFB VIII |
| TDL | Topica inquisitionis de luce et lumine (1625) | OFB VI |
| TGB | Of the true greatness of Britain (1603-1608) | OFB III |
| TGKS | Of the true greatnes of kingdomes and states (1612–25) | OFB III |
| TGS | The lawes concerninge the transportacion of goulde & silver (c.1609?) | OFB III |
| TL | Two letters, as by Anthony Bacon and Essex (1600) | OFB II |
| TLS | Form of Sir Thomas Lake’s submission (1619–20) | OFB VII |
| TML | Tradendi modus legitimus (c. 1603) | OFB V |
| TP | Two prayers | OFB III |
| TPM | Temporis partus masculus (c. 1603) | OFB V |
| Tr | Tribuit or giving that which is due (1591–2) | OFB I |
| TRL | A true report of the detestable treason intended by Doctor Roderigo Lopez (1594) | OFB I |
| VBS | A short view to be taken of great Britain and Spain (1623–) | OFB VII |
| VDQ | A view of the differences in question betwixt the king’s bench and the Council in the Marches (by June 1606) | OFB III |
| VT | Valerius terminus of the interpretation of nature (by c. 1603) | OFB V |
| War | Warrants (n.d.) | OFB VII |
| WB | ‘The worlds a bubble’ | * |
| WDGS | The warrant dorman[t?] for gold and silver of […] (1618) | OFB VII |
The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings 1584-1596, ed. by Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1,136. ISBN: 978-0-19-818313-6.