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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78328-78331
Title:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [c 1649-1680s?]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78342-78344
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXXV-CLXXVII. Manuscripts of the `Elysium Britannicum'; [late 1650s-bef. 1706]. Beal EvJ 75, 76. Formerly Evelyn MSS 45, 38, and unnumbered. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [Late 1650s-before 1706]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78353-78356
Title:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1656-1657
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78360-78361
Title:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78394-78400
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXXVII- CCXXXIII. Accounts and papers of Evelyn as Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen; 1664-1679. For this Commission and for Evelyn’s correspondence as Commissioner, see Add. MSS 78320-78322 above. Seven volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1664-1679
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78405 A-B
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXVIII A, B. Two account books of receipts and debts; 1650-1683. Mostly autograph, but with some initial entries in the hand of Evelyn's amanuensis, Richard Hoare. Both books were begun in 1650, but record some transactions as far back as 1645. With the inscriptions on the fly-leaves, `E Libris Autographis J. Evelyni Pariis 1650'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1650-1683
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78407-78410
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CCXL-CCXLIII. Bills and receipts of Evelyn and his family, mostly for household provisions and clothing, many made through John Strickland, steward at Sayes Court and (after 1699) Thomas Bedingfield, steward at Wotton; 1641-1706. The Wotton papers include some bills for work done on the estate, where it is difficult to separate these consistently from household bills. The main sequence of estate accounts and rentals is filed below under Estate Papers, Add. MSS 78585-786...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641-1706
Extent:: 4 items

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