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171. Add MS 78333

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVI. `Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall, &c promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse', with the note added in the margin, `Also some particular notes in my Travels'; [1680s-1703, n.d]. Autograph. Entries concernin...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1680s-1703
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1 item

172. Add MS 78334

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVII. `Hortus Hyemalis sive Collectio Plantarum Horti Gymnasij Patavini, quibus auctior erat 1645 …’; 1645, with later notes and specimens.
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John Evelyn's hortus siccus, which he called his 'hortus hyemalis'. The autograph title-page also bears Evelyn’s motto, `Meliora Retinete’, an emblem of a bleeding heart transfixed with two arrows, a quotation from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I: `Heu mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis Herbis;...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1645
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1 item

173. Add MS 78335

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVIII. Notes on chemistry, with the title, `Chymistry or [As my Master Monsieur Barlet of Paris under whom I went my first curriculm(?) ...] Ergotechnica' (the words in square brackets have been crossed through by Evelyn), and the note on the fly-leaf, `E libris manuscript...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1646
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1 item

174. Add MS 78336

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXIX. `Medicus Itinerarius in Privatum Authoris usum conscriptus'; 1651. Medical notes, calligraphically written by Evelyn's scribe, Richard Hoare, with the later note by Evelyn, `This Trifle from p: 89 is muche out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correct...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1651
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1 item

175. Add MS 78337

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXX. Medical and culinary recipes; 1651-18th cent. In four sections, of which `Book I' is headed `Receipts Medicinal', `Book II', `Receipts Chirurgical', `Book III', `Receipts of Preserves and Perfumes', and `Book IIII' `Receipts of Cookery'. Each section begins with ent...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1651-1799
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1 item

176. 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
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English
Date Range:
1560-1699
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1 item

177. Add MS 78339

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXII. `Trades. Secrets & Receipts Mechanical, as they came casualy to hand. Alphabetically plac’d according to the subsequent Table'; [1650s]. Partly autograph, but some entries in other hands. With an alphabetical list of the trades at the beginning (f. 2); after t...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1650s]
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1 item

178. Add MS 78340

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIII. Collection in two parts, the first of medical and culinary recipes, the second of skills and crafts; 1659-[early 18th cent?]. Autograph. Begun in or after 1659 (see Hunter, op. cit., p. 82, n. 62, who points out that on the first page there is an entry derived from...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1659-1740
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1 item

179. Add MS 78341

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIV. 'A Booke of Promiscuous Notes & Observations concerning Husbandry, Building &c', with 'Gardens; Horses' added underneath; [1650s-1670s?]. Autograph. The notes have been entered under the general headings specified below, on the right-hand pages with a note ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1650s-1670s?]
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1 item

180. Add MS 78342

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXV. `Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens in Three Books' (f. 8), a comprehensive work on horticulture; in a later published extract from the work, Acetaria: a Discourse of Sallets, Evelyn added the sub-title, `Describing and Shewing the Amplitude, and Extent of that...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1740
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1 item