EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVI. `Kalendarium' (Evelyn's title at the beginning of the text), covering the period 1620 to October 1697; [aft. 1660]-1697. Autograph. With the exception of the initial account of Evelyn's birth and family, the text is presented in day-to-day journal form, but de Beer (I, ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLVI-CLVIII. `Diary’ of John Evelyn, covering the period bef. 1620 till shortly before his death in Feb.1706; comp. [aft. 1660]-1706. Mostly autograph. Evelyn first began to keep diary notes as a school-boy, in imitation of his father (Diary, I, p. 8). An early example of these almanac entries of 1636-7 is now in Balliol College, PRT. 670.a.13. Another example of 1647 is unlocated after sale at Sotheby's, 23 June 1925, lot 347; another of 1653 is now Add. MS 80765. He...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVII. Continuation by Evelyn of the preceding volume in loose gatherings; Oct. 1697-Feb. 1706, preceded (ff. ii-iii) by an extract on two leaves from the earlier volume, June 1651 (see also Beal EvJ 219 and 220 for what are evidently two further copies of this in other col...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLVIII. `De Vita Propria Pars Prima' (title as lettered on the spine): a revised version of Add. MS 78323 up to 29 Oct. 1644; comp. circa 1700 and later. Autograph in a small book-hand, but with the last sentence finished (from the comparable passage in Add. MS 78323 above...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLIX. `John Evelyn's Memoirs Anno 1737': copy of parts of Add. MSS 78323 and 78325, from the beginning until Good Friday 1644; 1737, with a few corrections in ink in a different hand and a few pencilled annotations in pencil in the margins relating to the differences betwee...
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....
Commonplace Collections 78327-78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX-CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John Evelyn; [1649-1703?]. Mostly autograph, but begun by Richard Hoare, the professional scribe whom Evelyn brought from England to Paris with him in 1649 to help `reduce my studies into a method’ (to Sir Richard Browne, 14 June 1649; Add. MS 78221), and continued by Evelyn himself after Hoare had left his service. Evelyn in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 44, recommends the making of com...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXI. `Locorum Comm: Tomus 1mus'; [1650s-1680s?]. Autograph. Partly Latin and Greek. Preceded (ff. 1-2) by a list of books read and commonplaced, in two columns under headings, `Theolog. & Moral' and `Hist & Philolog'; the whole headed `Bookes Comm: plac: in Divini...