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221. 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
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English
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[c 1649-1680s?]
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4 items

222. Add MS 78329

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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 ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[1650s-1680s?]
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1 item

223. Add MS 78330

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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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[after1649?]
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1 item

224. Add MS 78331

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIV. Index to the preceding three volumes, consisting of four lists of entries, each in double columns, and followed by volume (in the above order) and page references, corresponding with the pencilled sequences added to each volume. A note by Evelyn concerning the order an...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s]
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1 item

225. 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?]
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1 item

226. 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

227. Add MS 78334

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVII. `Hortus Hyemalis sive Collectio Plantarum Horti Gymnasij Patavini, quibus auctior erat 1645 …’; 1645, with later notes and specimens.
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John Evelyn's hortus siccus, which he called his 'hortus hyemalis'. The autograph title-page also bears Evelyn’s motto, `Meliora Retinete’, an emblem of a bleeding heart transfixed with two arrows, a quotation from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I: `Heu mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis Herbis;...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1645
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1 item

228. Add MS 78334-78352

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Manuscripts relating to Virtuoso Projects
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1560-1799]
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20 items

229. Add MS 78335

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVIII. Notes on chemistry, with the title, `Chymistry or [As my Master Monsieur Barlet of Paris under whom I went my first curriculm(?) ...] Ergotechnica' (the words in square brackets have been crossed through by Evelyn), and the note on the fly-leaf, `E libris manuscript...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1646
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1 item

230. Add MS 78336

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXIX. `Medicus Itinerarius in Privatum Authoris usum conscriptus'; 1651. Medical notes, calligraphically written by Evelyn's scribe, Richard Hoare, with the later note by Evelyn, `This Trifle from p: 89 is muche out of Senectus: It is all full of Errors & needs correct...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1651
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1 item