EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXV-LXVII. Verse and other material collected by Sir Richard Browne; circa 1603-1682. Partly Latin, French and Italian. Three volumes.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVI (ff. 133). Miscellaneous English verse collected and partly copied by Browne and his father; circa 1590-circa 1700, n.d. English and Latin. Many of the verses, which are arranged largely in chronological order of composition, bear endorsements in Browne’s hand. Inc...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVII (ff. 142). Miscellaneous verses and inscriptions, with some prose, mostly in languages other than English and deriving from Browne’s papers; circa late 16th cent.-1683, n.d. Partly autograph drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. As follows...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXVIII. Astronomical treatises copied in a single Secretary hand; circa late 16th cent.-1628. Copy, imperfect, wanting one or more leaves at the beginning. Latin. Pages mostly ruled with margins in ink. Towards the middle is added a list of the golden numbers, dominical...
Political and Diplomatic Tracts 78235-78254. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVIII-LXXXVII. These comprise items that show clear evidence of Browne’s ownership (78233-78241) or that accrued (78256-78260), or seem likely to have accrued (78242-78255, 78261, 78262), to him at various stages of his official career. Nineteen volumes.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIX. Jean Picart: Four imaginary dialogues of social life, in French; n.d. (circa mid 1640s). Apparently autograph. The tract is prefaced by a dedication in prose to ‘Monsieur Richard Browne’, that is, Browne’s son Richard, followed by acrostic verses. Picart (fl. 1620-...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXX. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘His last Admonitions to his Daughters, His answeares to theire letters, Their refusall of a Conference, after they had accepted the same, His morre particullar Declaration and Sommons, Their answeare on the said Sommons, His reply thereon. And t...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXI. Sir Balthasar Gerbier: ‘The relation of sr Balthasar Gerbier Knight, Master of Ceremonies to the king of great Britain, For the Cleering of some particullars which haue by some been misunderstood, during the Raignes of king James, and king Charles’; Paris, 25 June 164...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXII. [Daniel de Maizières, physician to the Elector Palatine]: ‘Traicté contenant les moyens d’vnir toutes les Esglises Reformées de l’Europe, par Vne Discipline Ecclesiastique suivant l’ancienne institution des Apostres, et la practique continuée dans tous les Siecles. P...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXIII. The Book of Common Prayer; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker…And by the Assigns of John Bill. 1638. Printed in black letter. A calligraphic inscription, in Latin, commemorating the rescue of the volume ‘ipso horrendi facinoris die’ and its subsequent gift to Bro...