EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVII. Devotional manuscript, `Enchiridion christianarum precationum in honorem sacrosanctae individuae et gloriosae Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in particularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum', with dedicatory epistle (ff. 3-68v) by H[enry] Howa...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXLVIII. `Womans Worth. Or a treatise shewing & proving by sundry reasons that women doe excell Men. Authoris nomen pagina queque probat collegiae Omnium Animarum [All Souls College]'; [early 17th cent.]. Copy, 1638, in more than one scribal hand, of a manuscript in the...
A. Music for the violin and (at the end reversing the volume) the viol; 1638-1639. At the beginning is the note by Evelyn, `Musica est bene cantand: scientia', and `Mr Merist SS Theol. Bacc. Dedit mihi bene librum ego tamen notas insertui' Ball: Coll: Oxon: 1638'. One page of music (f. 9) is h...
B. Two of a set of four partbooks containing eight motets by Richard Dering (circa 1580-1630) and four anonymous motets, possibly also by Dering; copied [1625-1640?]. Ff. 1-8: bassus; ff. 9-16: altus (original separate pagination 1-16; 1-16). See Jonathan Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seven...
C. Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), Motet, `Si linguis hominum'; bef. 1645. Latin.Copy in an Italian hand, with decorative initial letter S in ink. Nine hand-ruled staves to a page. With an inscription on the front cover by Evelyn, `Coll. JEvelynus: Romae Aprilis: 11: 1645'., the motto `Meliora ...
D. Songbook; [circa mid 17th cent.?]. French and Italian, in two different hands. Imperfect; a portion has been cut from the first leaf. It was presumably made and used in Paris while John Evelyn lived in the Browne household after his marriage, since it has the following list of names on the...