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351. Add MS 78553

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCLXXXVI. Letters to William Mann Godschall of Weston House, near Guildford, chiefly from Dr Alexander Hunter of York (1733-1809) concerning his new edition of Sylva, and from the Earl of Portsmouth concerning Sir Isaac Newton’s papers; 1775-1787. On the evidence of the l...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1775-1787
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1 item

352. Add MS 78327

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLX. `Vademecum'; [1649-1651]. Latin. A compendium of information on a variety of subjects, including grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, politics, theology and music, calligraphically written within margins ruled in red ink by Richard Hoare....
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
[1649-1651]
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1 item

353. Add MS 78328-78331

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXI-CLIV. `Loci communes': a series of three volumes, with a separate index volume; [circa 1649-1680s?]. Begun in Hoare's hand and continued by Evelyn, they contain `extracts of his reading . . . sorted by subject according to the whole gamut of knowledge, human, natural and divine', so that they comprise `one of the most elaborate commonplace books to survive for the period' (Hunter, op. cit., p. 74). Evelyn was proud of his method, sending his brother in 1658 `the ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[c 1649-1680s?]
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4 items

354. Add MS 78332

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXV. `Adversaria'; [after 1680?]. Autograph. Partly Latin. Commonplace book, with subject headings in the margins. The notes have been entered in several sections with many blank pages between, but the sections are unheaded, except for the last, headed `Sententiae &am...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[after 1680?]
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1 item

355. Add MS 78645 B

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B. Fragments cut from medieval illuminated manuscripts in an envelope with a crossed-out address to W.G. Hiscock, Deputy Librarian of Christ Church, and annotated by him `MS. Fragments (for N. K. to see)’. With them is a postcard identifying a psalter (apparently not Add. MS 78645 A above) and s...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

356. Add MS 78582 A-B

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXV A, B. Presentation copy and continuation of Add. MS 78581; 1831-1832.
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William Bray, antiquary: Notes, transcripts and proofs rel. to the Evelyn family and John Evelyn's diary: 1814-1832.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1831-1832
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2 items

357. Add MS 78338

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXI. 1. ff. 1-34. Collection of loose medical and culinary receipts on different sizes of paper and in several hands, including those of Evelyn, his wife, son, and daughter Mary; late 16th-17th cent. Some have endorsements or notes in Evelyn's hand, or that of his grand...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1560-1699
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1 item

358. Add MS 78347

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXX. Quarto volume with a title-page and a few lines of preface, entitled `The Dignity of Mankind, in a problematical Exercitation or Essay ... Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esq'; 1676. This is apparently the work listed by Evelyn in Add. MS 15950, f. 80, as `Con...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1676
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1 item

359. Add MS 78415

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVIII. `Womans Worth. Or a treatise shewing & proving by sundry reasons that women doe excell Men. Authoris nomen pagina queque probat collegiae Omnium Animarum [All Souls College]'; [early 17th cent.]. Copy, 1638, in more than one scribal hand, of a manuscript in the...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
[Early 17th century]
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1 item

360. Add MS 78422

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLV. Notes taken by Gasper Needham, D. Med., of sermons preached by Peter Gunning, afterwards Bishop of Chichester and Ely, at Exeter House in the Strand, London; 1659-1660. Autograph, with a title-page in Evelyn's hand. Needham (circa 1620-1679) was described by Evelyn a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659-1660
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1 item