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251. Add MS 78353-78356

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX. Manuscripts relating to Evelyn's project for publishing a verse translation with commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 1656-1657. Only the translation of the first book was ever published. No manuscripts relating to the second book are known to survive. The project, which reflected Evelyn's interest in the new science as well as in classical literature and philosophy, is discussed in his letters to Sir Richard Browne of 1656-57 in Add. MS 78221. See ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1656-1657
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4 items

252. Add MS 78353-78359

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Verse and Drama
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
[1600-1706]
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7 items

253. Add MS 78354

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III-VI (to line 694); 1656-1657. Autograph fair copy of a text which was never published, Evelyn claiming that the `ill successe' of the first volume `at the printers discouraged me from troubling the world with the ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1656-1657
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1 item

254. Add MS 78355

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVIII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, book VI (from line 696); 11 Sept. 1657 (dated by Evelyn at the end, as the date of completion). Autograph draft, on disbound quarto gatherings, with stubs of several leaves (ff. 1-3) torn off at the beginning. Presumabl...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1657
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1 item

255. Add MS 78356

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIX. Commentary on Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III to VI, to accompany the above translation; 1656-1657. Autograph draft in a rough cursive hand, preceded by a draft preface(?) in a later hand, concerning his motives for undertaking the work. The main text is wri...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1656-1657
Extent:
1 item

256. Add MS 78357

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXC. Quarto notebook containing autograph fair copies of Evelyn's occasional verse, in three sections with some blank leaves between each; 17th cent. Many leaves discoloured by damp, with some fading of text. Beal EvJ 6. Formerly Evelyn MS 124. ff. 69. Paginated `1-68' ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

257. Add MS 78358

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCI. `Thersander. A Tragi-Comedy'; early 1660s. Autograph fair copy, signed by Evelyn on the title-page, with many deletions and alterations. An incomplete play in blank verse, never completed or performed, but see The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 1660s
Extent:
1 item

258. Add MS 78359

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCII (ff. 55). Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, including verse, inscriptions and epitaphs by, addressed to, or otherwise associated with John Evelyn; circa 1634-1706. 1. ff. 1-4. Act I, Scene 1 of `The Originals. A Comedy', by Evelyn; [1660s?]. Autograph fair copy. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600-1706
Extent:
1 item

259. Add MS 78360

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Vol. CXCIII
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

260. Add MS 78360-78361

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CXCIV. Evelyn's Bible, two volume folio edition printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1638, interleaved with blank leaves. On these and in the margins are many autograph annotations. The leaf preceding each of the title-pages contains an engraved design encircling a blank medallion for the recording of personal or family memoranda. On the verso of this leaf in the first volume is the autograph inscription, `E Libris Evel...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 items