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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78324
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1697-Feb 1706
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78325
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78326
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1737
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78327
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1649-1651]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78327-78333
Title:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1649-1703?]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78328
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1650s-1680s?]
Extent:: 1 item

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 78329
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXII. `Locorum Comm: Tomus IIdus'; [1650s-1680s?]. A note by Evelyn in Latin at the beginning explains that the commonplaces in this second volume were not included in the preceding volume either because the works concerned were not read in due order, or because of absence ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1650s-1680s?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78330
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIII. 'Tomus Tertius'; [aft.1649?]. In fact this volume was originally the first of the series to be compiled. The first pages of each of the sections described below are in the hand of Richard Hoare. At this stage Evelyn conceived of a subject arrangement for his commo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [after1649?]
Extent:: 1 item

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