De causa Dei: Title page and dedication
Thomas Bradwardine, De causa Dei contra Pelagium (1344). English translation: Wroot Press, CC BY-NC 4.0; machine-learning use permitted with attribution (https://bradwardine.wrootpress.com/rights/).
Source: Henry Savile's edition, London 1618; Latin from EEBO-TCP A16626 (public domain).
Canonical: https://bradwardine.wrootpress.com/front/title/
Status: draft translation, not yet reviewed.

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THOMAS BRADWARDINE, SOMETIME ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: ON THE CAUSE OF GOD, AGAINST PELAGIUS, AND ON THE POWER OF CAUSES,[n1] to his men of Merton,[n2] three books.

By order of the Most Reverend GEORGE ABBOT, Archbishop of Canterbury; by the labor and care of Sir[n3] HENRY SAVILE, Warden of Merton College in the University of Oxford,

now first published from manuscript codices.[n4]

LONDON, from the Norton press,[n5] at the house of JOHN BILL. 1618.

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To the most serene and most powerful prince, James, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender and champion of the true faith, and best, greatest and most indulgent patron of good letters: this work of Thomas Bradwardine, once Archbishop of Canterbury, rescued from neglect,[n6] Henry Savile, most devoted to His Majesty, gives, dedicates and consecrates[n7] as a monument of perpetual homage.

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NOTES

1. De causa Dei plays on two senses of causa, a case at law and a cause in the causal sense, and the second half of the title (de virtute causarum) points to the second. The English "cause of God" keeps both; see Conventions §3.
2. Ad suos Mertonenses: Bradwardine had been a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and addressed the work to his former colleagues. The phrase is Savile's title-page wording, not the author's own heading.
3. Di. is the abbreviation of Domini, here the title of a knight; Savile was knighted in 1604.
4. Ex scriptis Codicibus: "from written (that is, manuscript) books". The edition is the first printed edition of the work.
5. Officina Nortoniana: the printing house of Bonham Norton, with John Bill as his associate. Both are named on the title page.
6. e situ vindicatum: situs here means the mould and decay of long disuse, as in the common phrase situs et squalor. Vindicare carries a forensic sense, to claim or free someone from custody. This fits the work's legal imagery: the book is "claimed back" from oblivion, as Bradwardine's causa Dei is itself pleaded. The sense is "restored from neglect" or "set free from the mould of neglect".
7. The siglum D. D. is expanded here as dat dedicat. The Latin continues with -que, so the full phrase reads dat dedicatque consecratque, which English renders as "gives, dedicates and consecrates". The expansion is the standard dedicatory formula (dono dedit is the other possible reading), and the sense is not affected.
8. This is not text. It is the printer's signature mark of the gathering that carries the dedication, an asterisk-type ornament in parentheses. I keep it as it stands in the keyed text.