1616 Folio

Topic: 1616 Folio

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The preserved Neville Research wiki page for 1616 Folio is a stub source-map page rather than a developed argument page.

• That page points to two external source paths:
• an Archive.org witness for Jonson's 1616 folio and the epigram to Henry Neville
• an Archive.org witness for later commentary on the epigram

• The direct Jonson epigram witness has already been isolated elsewhere in the corpus:
• ben_jonson.md

• A 2026-04-21 web audit identified the Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson as the best modern scholarly control for this source-map packet. Its Epigrams interface exposes the 1616 Epigrams text, notes, 1616 folio view, manuscript collation, and Folio image options. Its life essay also confirms that Jonson's Works was published by William Stansby in November 1616 and that Jonson treated the Epigrams as an important part of the collection.

• The packet should therefore be treated as a three-layer source map:
• primary visual witness: Archive.org / page image of Jonson's 1616 folio
• modern scholarly control: Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson
• local interpretive trail: Neville Research wiki and related topic packets

2. Source-Control Update, 2026-05-30

• Local EarlyPrint/TCP confirms A04632 as Ben Jonson's 1616 Works: STC 14752, ESTC S112455, printed by W: Stansby and sold by Rich: Meighen.
• The local A04632 witness is enough for routing the Neville epigram, but page-image collation is still required for final quotation.
• The fully hardened epigram handling now belongs in ben_jonson.md. This packet should stay a source map, not grow into a duplicate Jonson evidence packet.
• A BRO transcription sweep found no direct 1616 Folio, Ben Jonson, or Henry Nevil publication witness in [local source path removed]. Treat BRO as negative for this narrow source route.

3. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.

4. Quoted Source Text

Neville Research wiki page

• Epigram to Henry Neville
• Commentary on epigram to Neville

5. Citations

• wiki_1616_folio.md, local preservation of the Neville Research wiki page.
• ben_jonson.md, packet containing the direct Archive.org Jonson witnesses.
• Jonson, Ben. The Workes of Beniamin Ionson. London, William Stansby, 1616. Archive.org primary witness cited in ben_jonson.md.
• Jonson, Ben. The Works. TCP/EarlyPrint A04632; STC 14752; ESTC S112455; local EarlyPrint database witness.
• "Epigrams." The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, Cambridge University Press / King's College London, https://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson/k/works/epigrams/facing/.
• "Life of Ben Jonson." The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, https://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson/k/essays/jonsons_life_essay/.
• WEB_SOURCE_AUDIT_2026-04-21.md, first-pass web audit note for this packet.

6. Notes on Access

• This is a source-map packet, not a standalone evidence packet.
• Its current value is to preserve the site-level route from the Neville Research wiki to the Jonson 1616 folio witnesses.
• The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson source is useful as a scholarly control, but the terminal-accessible page did not expose the full Neville epigram text cleanly. For direct quotation, continue to prefer the Archive.org folio page image or the existing local witness in ben_jonson.md.

Third-Batch Fact-Source Update, 2026-06-24

• This packet remains a route map rather than a direct evidence packet. The web/source work did not add a stronger public transcription of Jonson's 1616 To Sir Henry Nevil item than the existing local witness and page-image route.
• Folgerpedia's Ben Jonson library page is useful context for Jonson provenance work because it identifies McPherson's annotated catalogue as the main reference and distinguishes signatures, mottoes, annotations, and access by copy. It does not itself verify the 1616 Neville epigram.
• Book use: quote Jonson's epigram only from a checked 1616 folio image/transcription or the already staged local Jonson packet, not from rough web snippets.