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Commonplace Collections 78327-78333. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLX-CLXVI. Commonplace books or adversaria of John Evelyn; [1649-1703?]. Mostly autograph, but begun by Richard Hoare, the professional scribe whom Evelyn brought from England to Paris with him in 1649 to help `reduce my studies into a method’ (to Sir Richard Browne, 14 June 1649; Add. MS 78221), and continued by Evelyn himself after Hoare had left his service. Evelyn in Memoires for my Grandson, p. 44, recommends the making of com...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1703?]
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7 items

2. 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
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 78327

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLX. `Vademecum'; [1649-1651]. Latin. A compendium of information on a variety of subjects, including grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, politics, theology and music, calligraphically written within margins ruled in red ink by Richard Hoare....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1649-1651]
Extent:
1 item

4. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s?]
Extent:
4 items

5. 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?]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 78328

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXI. `Locorum Comm: Tomus 1mus'; [1650s-1680s?]. Autograph. Partly Latin and Greek. Preceded (ff. 1-2) by a list of books read and commonplaced, in two columns under headings, `Theolog. & Moral' and `Hist & Philolog'; the whole headed `Bookes Comm: plac: in Divini...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1650s-1680s?]
Extent:
1 item

7. 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?]
Extent:
1 item

8. 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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1650s-1680s?]
Extent:
1 item

9. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s]
Extent:
1 item

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