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. Vols CXXXI-CXXXII. Letterbooks, containing autograph copies or versions of Evelyn's letters to various correspondents between 1644 and 1698; [comp. second half of 17th cent]. Those at the beginning are in Latin, Italian, German and French, as indicated below. The letters were apparently entered from original loose drafts or retained copies. Evelyn notes in his Memoires for my Grand-son, pp. 64-65, that there are `severall more [letters] in loose papers which I intended to ...
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...
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 ...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXIX. Account-book, headed, `Codex expensi', containing day by day accounts of disbursements for personal expenses; Jan. 1673-Dec. 1681. Autograph. Including payments for charity, children's pocket-money, gifts, travelling expenses, books, garden expenditure (both mostl...