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2. Add MS 78353-78356
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX. Manuscripts relating to Evelyn's project for publishing a verse translation with commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 1656-1657. Only the translation of the first book was ever published. No manuscripts relating to the second book are known to survive. The project, which reflected Evelyn's interest in the new science as well as in classical literature and philosophy, is discussed in his letters to Sir Richard Browne of 1656-57 in Add. MS 78221. See ...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1656-1657
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- 4 items
3. Add MS 78357
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXC. Quarto notebook containing autograph fair copies of Evelyn's occasional verse, in three sections with some blank leaves between each; 17th cent. Many leaves discoloured by damp, with some fading of text. Beal EvJ 6. Formerly Evelyn MS 124. ff. 69. Paginated `1-68' ...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 78358
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCI. `Thersander. A Tragi-Comedy'; early 1660s. Autograph fair copy, signed by Evelyn on the title-page, with many deletions and alterations. An incomplete play in blank verse, never completed or performed, but see The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Early 1660s
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 78359
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- Add MS 78359
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXCII (ff. 55). Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, including verse, inscriptions and epitaphs by, addressed to, or otherwise associated with John Evelyn; circa 1634-1706. 1. ff. 1-4. Act I, Scene 1 of `The Originals. A Comedy', by Evelyn; [1660s?]. Autograph fair copy. ...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1600-1706
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 78354
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III-VI (to line 694); 1656-1657. Autograph fair copy of a text which was never published, Evelyn claiming that the `ill successe' of the first volume `at the printers discouraged me from troubling the world with the ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1656-1657
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 78356
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIX. Commentary on Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III to VI, to accompany the above translation; 1656-1657. Autograph draft in a rough cursive hand, preceded by a draft preface(?) in a later hand, concerning his motives for undertaking the work. The main text is wri...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1656-1657
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 78355
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- Add MS 78355
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVIII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, book VI (from line 696); 11 Sept. 1657 (dated by Evelyn at the end, as the date of completion). Autograph draft, on disbound quarto gatherings, with stubs of several leaves (ff. 1-3) torn off at the beginning. Presumabl...
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- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 11 Sep 1657
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 78353
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- Add MS 78353
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- EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVI. John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura. Interpreted and Made English Verse. London: Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1656. Printed, with autograph inscription, a note on the verso of the title-page concerning the many mispr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1656
- Extent:
- 1 item