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231. 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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English
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1659-1740
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232. 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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233. 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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1660-1740
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234. Add MS 78342-78344

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXXV-CLXXVII. Manuscripts of the `Elysium Britannicum'; [late 1650s-bef. 1706]. Beal EvJ 75, 76. Formerly Evelyn MSS 45, 38, and unnumbered. Three volumes.
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[Late 1650s-before 1706]
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235. Add MS 78343

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVI. `Rude Collections to be Inserted into Elysium Britannicum, Referring to the several Chapters of what is beg[un]' (f. 150v), consisting of Evelyn's collection of additional material to be incorporated into the `Elysium Britannicum', including insertions for Book III, ...
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1660-1689
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236. Add MS 78344

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVII. Notes by and collected by Evelyn for `Elysium Britannicum', Sylva, the Royal Society and related projects; mostly late 17th cent. ff. 136. British Library arrangement. 395 x 255mm. 1. Notes, mostly intended for incorporation into the `Elysium Britannicum', a fe...
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1659-1701
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237. Add MS 78345

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXVIII. Treatise on natural philosophy and chemistry; [aft. 1660?]. Autograph draft, including several pen and ink sketches of the laboratory equipment. Imperfect and fragmentary at the end. Most of this text is based on a course in chemistry by Nicasius Le Fèvre, stud...
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English
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[after 1660?]
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238. Add MS 78346

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXIX. `Coelum sanitatis. or, a Particular of the Vegetable & Animal Dissolvant'; [1650s-1660s]. Autograph copy or translation. Account of the chemical preparation and curative properties of a quintessential remedy, of which Evelyn remarks (f. 53), `this is for all o...
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239. Add MS 78347

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXX. Quarto volume with a title-page and a few lines of preface, entitled `The Dignity of Mankind, in a problematical Exercitation or Essay ... Writen at the Request of Samuel Pepys Esq'; 1676. This is apparently the work listed by Evelyn in Add. MS 15950, f. 80, as `Con...
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1676
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240. Add MS 78348

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXI. John Evelyn, Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, 3rd edn (London, 1679), with Evelyn’s autograph annotations for the 4th edition of 1706 (though these represent only a proportion of the changes and additions made for that edition). With, on the preliminary leaves (...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1679-1703]
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