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1. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1651]
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1 item

2. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s?]
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4 items

3. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[after 1680?]
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 78333

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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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1680s-1703
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1 item

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